Example sentences of "gave [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parisian cultural life between the wars was close-knit ; writers and artists gave each other mutual support . |
| 2 | We gave each other a long hug . |
| 3 | They exchanged addresses , bits of old sausage , gave each other presents of socks that their wives and sweethearts had knitted , and hoped and pretended , that it was all over . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They gave each other presents at the Hanukha-Christmas festival , and the rector showed me his latest gift , a book with the inscription ‘ To my friend the rector , from his friend , the rabbi ’ . |
| 6 | The further assumption must be that they gave each other a great deal that was worth having and keeping . |
| 7 | Because the men were serving together in what was essentially a small box with loopholes for machine-guns , their morale was high , for they gave each other mutual psychological support . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They gave each other nicknames — Hayward was known as " Tarantula " because of his sometimes acidulous wit , Morley as " Whale " , Faber as " Coot " , and Eliot as " Elephant " ( because he never forgot ) or of course Possum " . |
| 10 | But this steadily dissolved as we shared ideas , asked questions of one another and gave each other leads . |
| 11 | No , it was n't a conventional marriage but we gave each other what a lot of married people do n't : freedom . |
| 12 | However , indream we gave each other some sort of boost . |
| 13 | I saw the look the malai doctors gave each other and I knew then he would never see again . |
| 14 | They nearly always ate together ; they gave each other all they had that was especially valuable ; they shared the same house , slept under the same roof . " |
| 15 | They gave each other space . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He gave each supplicant twenty seconds — ‘ name , please ’ ( pause for boyish smile ) and a swift signature . |
| 18 | ‘ Of all the stupid , careless — ’ Flinching beneath contemptuous anger that gave each word the force of a blow , Polly could only watch as he made a visible effort to control himself . |
| 19 | He gave each word an incredibly fruity emphasis . |
| 20 | And when they married , he gave each grandchild a wedding present from his own handiwork . |
| 21 | None of the writers realized that the Cubism of this date relied on a balance between abstraction and representation to achieve its effects , and that it was this balance that gave each work a significance on more levels than one . |
| 22 | I believe that these helped to combine their characteristic voices with a small element of surprise which gave each track its own fingerprint . |
| 23 | Add the names , or , if you prefer anonymity , numbers , for the staff who gave each item of care to each person . |
| 24 | The church councils which were called in the first three decades of the fifteenth century gave each side reason and opportunity to seek support for its own attitude to the war before the remainder of Christendom . |
| 25 | He therefore kept £2 for himself and , having £3 left , gave each delegate £1 refund . |
| 26 | PRIMO LEVI gave each chapter of his autobiographical ‘ micro-history ’ , The Periodic Table , the title of a chemical element . |
| 27 | that gave each chapter life , |
| 28 | He gave each pupil a little card that said ‘ MR SLIPPER . |
| 29 | The first lecture series was given by Max Müller , a signatory , in the spring of 1878 ; the venue , the Chapterhouse at Westminster Abbey , was arranged by another signatory , Dean Stanley ; the course proved so popular that Müller gave each lecture twice . |
| 30 | They , in turn , gave each employee five pounds . |