Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] gave [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JOHN MAJOR today headed for a tough showdown with his predecessor Baroness Thatcher after MPs gave him the go-ahead to ratify the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 2 | It was held that the settlor had retained an interest in the accumulated income because the payments of income gave him the benefit of being able to withdraw his capital deposited at the bank . |
| 3 | Afterwards , the people of Haworth gave him a gold watch . |
| 4 | And the recently discovered structure of atoms gave them the idea that they could make helium out of hydrogen . |
| 5 | Mrs Celia jay of Blaxhall gave me an account of how she went crow-keeping at the end of last century : |
| 6 | His new tone of seriousness gave her the courage to look round . |
| 7 | The provost of Glasgow gave her a nickname . |
| 8 | But then the pointlessness of unemployment gave him no pleasure . |
| 9 | On a larger scale one might observe that his lifelong preoccupation with words gave him a kind of sensitivity to them , even if it was an unorthodox one ; and further that it is strange that a myth should so make its way if enshrined and embodied in words as inappropriate as critics have made out . |
| 10 | She 'd already hit Boardwalk twice and in desperation gave him a couple more , but it was like living one of those nightmares where you can never quite reach what you 're trying to catch . |
| 11 | ‘ All credit to Gavin gave me the ball in the end , with a little persuasion . |
| 12 | The state court said the state 's ‘ unqualified interest in life ’ should prevail over their assertion that her right to privacy gave her the right to die gracefully . |
| 13 | His marriage to Aethelburh gave him a connection with cross-Channel diplomacy and his children by Aethelburh were kinsfolk of a Merovingian king in Gaul . |
| 14 | Weston 's 1920 From Ritual to Romance gave him the tarot pack and backed up Frazer 's emphasis on links between sexuality and religion . |
| 15 | AN HOUR to spare on a recent visit to London gave me the opportunity to visit the famous Science Museum 's well-advertised new gallery ‘ Physics and Nuclear Power ’ . |
| 16 | To soften his feelings , however , we learned that the Professor from time to time gave him a fee which far exceeded the amount of the toll … just by the Bridge , turnstiles admitted foot-passengers to pass by different paths , intersecting the large extent of open ground , some of this led to Somers Town , Red Lion Street , etc … here and there , especially at the lower portion of the [ College ] ground , walls were standing , some of them being eight or ten feet high . ’ |
| 17 | All this focus on time gave him a sense of peace , and he died an hour after the worker had left him . |
| 18 | The only difference is that all that acting , all that recording , all that boring , frightening flying to gigs gave her the cash to fulfil that dream . |
| 19 | As the man at reception gave her the key to her room with a knowing look , Kelly reflected that she had n't felt so guilty since her teenage party days . |
| 20 | The Sultan chose Oxford , which , also by tradition gave him a docotrate of civil law . |