Example sentences of "he [vb past] give [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Driving on , he told Paula that Harry Butler was on the way , that he 'd given a brief description of Evelyn so Butler would recognize her , plus her address . |
| 2 | At times he advised reverting to a lower potency if the higher potency aggravated ; at other times he advised giving a few doses of a partially similar remedy if any aggravation should occur ; he also suggested administering the remedy in liquid form , giving a few succussions before repeating ( the plus system ) . |
| 3 | One day he arrived to give a new-born filly post-foaling antibiotic and tetanus cover . |
| 4 | At the same time , by frequently basing an entire ricercar on only one or two themes — inverted , diminished , augmented , drawn together in stretti , sometimes paired with a regular counter-subject — he contrived to give an extended piece musical cohesion replacing the mainly verbal cohesion of a motet . |
| 5 | Mr Richter was so smitten by Mr Cliburn 's talent , and so bored by the competition ( 1958 was the last time he ever served as judge for anything ) , that he decided to give the talented American pianist the top score of 25 for everything and all the other contestants a zero for everything . |
| 6 | He could have side-stepped the issue completely , but he chose to give a frank response , dismissing as ‘ garbage ’ a Federal Bureau of Narcotics ' pamphlet which described marijuana as ‘ a powerful narcotic in which lurks murder , insanity and death ’ , words that might well have been taken as a reference to events in Hollywood , because they were almost identical to words used by the mass media in descriptions of Manson . |
| 7 | Having struggled over preparation , he managed to give a light-hearted and amusing touch which caught the attention of his audience , so that the message was accepted and gave food for subsequent thought . |
| 8 | In Joliet , Illinois , a witness under hypnosis was asked to ‘ stop the video and zoom in ’ on the face of the criminal and he managed to give a detailed description of a man , who was duly arrested and charged . |
| 9 | He remembered giving a high scream : he was not proud of that noise , he had n't thought he had it in him , but it had come out easily . |
| 10 | He did give a little shove to a defender who was shielding Wallace from the ball as it was running thru to Coton , but Coton could nt hold it anyway so IMO it did nt affect the ‘ goal ’ . |
| 11 | Just before leaving France in 1940 he had given a final dinner party at the Ritz in Paris to members of his unit , but had inadvertently left without paying the bill . |
| 12 | As long ago as 1172 Henry II had promised to mount a crusade and ever since then he had done nothing about it — though he had given a good deal of financial aid to the stricken kingdom . |
| 13 | Playing for the New Zealand Barbarians in a 23–13 win over a strong Public School Wanderers side , Botha ended a superb personal display in soaking conditions with his shorts as pristine white as when he had started the game , during which he had given a cultured demonstration of the arts of reading the game and tactical kicking . |
| 14 | Each time he had given a little shrug , as though to say , ‘ We 'll see ’ , and left it at that . |
| 15 | Hawke immediately denied the allegation to the federal parliament , claiming that he had given no such promise and that a decision about the tax was not made until a month after the lunch . |
| 16 | She had talked about thresholds and he had given an authoritative paper on ‘ The Potent Castrato : the phallogocentric structuration of Balzac 's hermaphrodite hero/ines ’ . |
| 17 | This attitude was bitterly criticized by republican politicians who felt that he had given an enormous fillip to a rebellion that would otherwise have run out of steam . |
| 18 | When he had given the wounded the water , he made a second trip . |
| 19 | On 3 May he gave an address on Milton at the Frick Museum in New York , in which he recanted his previously low opinion of the poet , and on this occasion he seemed to one observer " incredibly refined , visibly aged " — he had given the same address two months before to the British Academy , and thus had saved himself additional effort . |
| 20 | Gauci had remembered the sale so vividly that , almost ten months later , he had given the Scottish police a probable date for it , 23 November 1988 , and provided a FBI videofit artist with a detailed description of his customer — he believed , a Libyan . |
| 21 | In Committee , the Minister said that he wanted to give a fair wind to employee-management buy-outs . |
| 22 | It was alleged that MacIver , who gave his address as c/o 471 Maryhill Road , Glasgow , had told PC Smith he wanted to give a full statement . |
| 23 | Steinmark was still absent and he , Nordern , was doing two men 's work which annoyed him , particularly as he wanted to give the best possible impression of himself during the next few weeks . |
| 24 | He refused to give a definite reply until the contents of the Declaration , which the King was due to make , were known . |
| 25 | Although President Hussein denied the allegations during a meeting with a US Senate delegation on April 11 , he refused to give a full assurance that Iraqi scientists would not research into biological weapons . |