Example sentences of "and gave [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharon Gless , of television 's Cagney and Lacey fame , collected her 1987 Emmy for the best actress category and gave much of the credit to Lazaris , her spirit guide . |
| 2 | She was now manager of Explorers Inn and gave all the new arrivals the same breezy , Californian smile of welcome . |
| 3 | Jitters knew she was doing two people a favour , because Fat Juanita got depressed when the johnny-passing-throughs left her downstairs in the parlour with her knitting and gave all the custom to Gretchen , Connie Calzone , Margaret Running Deer and the Games Mistress . |
| 4 | I resisted the urge to retort with his curtness , ‘ Because he 's not sleepy ’ , and gave all the medical reasons I could think of . |
| 5 | A Kazakh government commission was sent to Leninsk , and gave all conscripts 10 days ' leave and extra food and cigarettes . |
| 6 | The Repertory of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica presented me with a view of patients and diseases which was quite unlike anything which I had encountered , and gave many lively examples of the ways in which Kent had solved the clinical problems with which he had been faced . |
| 7 | The original justification for separate education , while untenable , even anachronistic nowadays , provided for the education and protection of countless specially vulnerable children , and gave many teachers opportunities to develop understanding and expertise in an area of handicap and special educational provision . |
| 8 | They elbowed and fought and gave each other tongue-sandwiches , and spat at passers-by and in each other 's faces , there in the cold and rain of decaying London , with the indifferent police looking on . |
| 9 | At a meeting this May the Agricultural Ministers agreed that reform was necessary and gave each other a deadline of June 1993 to come up with concrete proposals . |
| 10 | But this steadily dissolved as we shared ideas , asked questions of one another and gave each other leads . |
| 11 | From their data , Sinclair and Coulthard identified a finite number used by the teachers and pupils and gave each one a code as in Table 1 . |
| 12 | Then he called them across and gave each of them a beautiful gold watch . |
| 13 | The BCG divided its matrix into four quadrants as shown in figure 4.1 and gave each quadrant a name to signify how the products in it should be treated . |
| 14 | While Mr Gould said membership of the ERM was ‘ not in play ’ , he nevertheless believed the rate at which sterling was taken in was indefensible and gave little room to develop a coherent economic strategy . |
| 15 | Thomas Poole the younger had been born into comfortable West Somerset obscurity in 1765 , and gave little sign to those who met him for the first time of the great gifts of character and intellect which he possessed . |
| 16 | Other critics shared his view that enough was enough and gave both Marilyn French 's The War Against Women and Susan Faludi 's Backlash a pretty cool reception . |
| 17 | Ian heard from police that the girl was more like Mandy Smith than the proverbial school girl and gave both men conditional discharges . |
| 18 | In 1971 Oleg Lyalin , a KGB officer working at the Russian trade mission in London , defected to MI6 and gave enough information about Russian espionage activities to justify the prime minister , Edward Heath , expelling an unprecedented 105 Russian diplomats from Britain . |
| 19 | Julia was touched by the number of people who congratulated her on her recovery as she made her way with her cushion to her allotted seat at the end of the press benches , and gave several brief accounts of her illness to people who asked . |
| 20 | Surviving rules of gilds of laymen suggest that most such associations had a spiritual aspect ; in tenth-century Exeter gildsmen assembled " for the love of God and for our souls ' need , having regard both to the prosperity of our life and also to the days thereafter which we wish to be allotted to us at God 's Judgement " , and gave any member going on pilgrimage overseas five pence from each of his colleagues . |
| 21 | Then , after its founding in early 1967 , the NF mobilised to become a significant , if localised , force during the early and mid-1970s , especially in 1972-73 , after the arrival in Britain of displaced Ugandan Asians , and again in 1976 , when Malawian Asians arrived as refugees and were greeted by a moral panic about immigrants , legal and illegal , that continued into 1977 , and gave some local impetus to the NF 's electoral attempts at that time . |
| 22 | In this regard , the presence of members of the coordinating committee was resented by some members , even though it was a member of that team who eventually filled the vacuum and gave some sort of leadership . |
| 23 | Suddenly , Commander Zadak came into the office and gave some letters to the man behind the table . |
| 24 | Rose , in his book Do Parties Make a Difference ? , argues that " the 1974 Heath Government fulfilled at least 80% of its manifesto pledges … [ and ] the 1979 Labour Government … acted unambiguously upon 54% of its manifesto commitments and gave some evidence of action upon another 19% " . |
| 25 | He wrenched open the door and gave some instructions to the driver . |
| 26 | She got drunk at a party at work and gave some guy a blowjob in the storeroom . |
| 27 | And gave some to himself . |
| 28 | It contained no clues to Henry 's professional interests and gave few hints about his private tastes . |
| 29 | This created a lot of controversy and gave those who were fond of the sound of their own voices an unrivalled opportunity . |
| 30 | At first the party supported the policy of non-intervention , advocated by the French and British governments in August 1936 , and gave this policy its cautious support at its conference in October 1936 . |