Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] gave the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meeting platforms were festooned with a plethora of union jacks and members wore badges and gave the Italian fascist salute . |
| 2 | One lawyer cited one of the first such cases to be heard in Scotland : ‘ At one point the tribunal took the case by the scruff of the neck and told the claimants to put in their claim within 14 days and gave the other side the same amount of time for their defences . |
| 3 | This lasted on and off , for a hundred years and gave the Korean church over 10,000 martyrs . |
| 4 | Light from the bathroom filled the area with pale shadows and gave the damaged patches in the mirror an eerie silvery glow . |
| 5 | Khrushchev lavished banquets , ballets and banter on him and took him tobogganing — then , with mysterious abruptness , withdrew his favours and gave the British a public drubbing over the Suez adventure and the Berlin question , where he was demanding the evacuation of allied troops . |