Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] gave the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was David who gave the grim reply to the secretary 's question . |
| 2 | In May 1412 a treaty ( that of Bourges ) was sealed between Henry IV and the dukes of Berry , Bourbon , and Orléans which gave the English king much of what his predecessors had spent years fighting for : a recognition that Aquitaine was rightfully English , and an undertaking to help the king defend it ; the cession of twenty important towns and castles ; and agreement that certain lands , notably Poitou , were to be held by them of the English crown , and would revert to it when the present holders died . |
| 3 | Christie 's Martin Beisly bid successfully on behalf of a client for Lord Leighton 's ‘ The Bracelet ’ , which sold for £380,000 ( $570,000 ) against underbidding by David Mason of MacConnal-Mason on behalf of Andrew Lloyd Webber who gave the final shake of the head at his side . |
| 4 | In support of this submission he relied on the recent decision of the House of Lords in Reg. v. Inland Revenue Commissioners , Ex parte T. C. Coombs & Co. [ 1991 ] 2 A.C. 283 , 302F where the House of Lords held , in the words of Lord Lowry who gave the leading judgment in which the other Lords of Appeal concurred , that |
| 5 | Violence erupted after Jonas Savimbi , leader of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola ( Unita ) , rejected the results of UN-supervised elections in September which gave the ruling MPLA party a victory . |
| 6 | The name makes some sense as an enduring survival of bronze age Cretan influence , but we must not lose sight of the fact that it was Evans who gave the Minoan civilization its name and not the Minoans : they almost certainly called themselves something completely different . |
| 7 | The promise was won by the actress Saskia Reeves who gave the finished sketch to her father . |