Example sentences of "[noun sg] he gave [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This concludes Mr Birdwood 's article and again many thanks to him for the talk he gave last March and for permission to reprint same . |
| 2 | During a five-week period in Lent he gave 19 concerts , some at the homes of aristocrats such as Count Johann Esterházy and the Russian Ambassador , Prince Golitsin , and some privately organized by himself . |
| 3 | On Monday evening he gave fair warning of an increase in taxes , and spending cuts to reduce the expanding federal budget deficit . |
| 4 | During last year 's presidential election he gave vociferous support for the Clinton-Gore ticket . |
| 5 | He told the newspaper the only reason he gave false evidence was that police had beaten and threatened him , the prosecution said . |
| 6 | For those whose scholarship he respected he was prepared to go to endless trouble , but to those whom he suspected of pretensions exceeding their knowledge or understanding he gave short shrift . |
| 7 | One of Lecter 's erstwhile victims was a musician from the Baltimore Philharmonic Orchestra , whose body was found minus its pancreas and thymus , which organs were served up by Lecter in a dinner he gave next day for the conductor and president of the orchestra . |
| 8 | Off the pitch he gave much time to helping young players , while on it his play was never selfish , always for the team rather than his average ; and there were times when he batted in great pain rather than let the side down . |