Example sentences of "[Wh det] gave [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The garden had to be shared with the bottom flat , so a dividing wall was built which gave them total privacy . |
| 2 | In the late 1930s the Liverpool Police brought in a new ‘ discretionary movement ’ in which constables made half-hour points , which gave them relative freedom on the beat . |
| 3 | She was heard to pause before going into the bathroom , the latch of which gave its distinctive click . |
| 4 | The constant disputes as to its use in time of scarcity were regulated by a communal organization ; the most famous was the Water Tribunal of Valencia , which gave its verbal judgements , never contested , in an open-air court outside the cathedral . |
| 5 | One of the sport 's most natural drivers — no one , ever , participated in more forms of motor sport , for as long or even remotely as successfully — he favoured , as a simple man , those things which gave him simple pleasures . |
| 6 | Most damaging to the action man myth of JFK was his serious adrenaline disorder , Addison 's disease , which gave him acute back pain . |
| 7 | In late August González had been granted extraordinary powers which gave him total control over central government , federal agency and state company finances and the administration of enterprises operating under the Public Works and Defence ministries . |
| 8 | Mr Cross walked to the signal box at Girvan and waited until the train was belled off Kilkerran which gave him sufficient time to drive to Pinmore . |
| 9 | His plan , with the apparent co-operation of the heiress and owner of the papers , was to write a life of Rudyard Kipling [ q.v. ] , but he unwisely signed a contract with her ( Mrs Bambridge ) which gave her sole control over the book as a condition of full access to the family papers . |
| 10 | Her own voice and word of mouth were enough to outmanoeuvre the rock stations , which shunned her steel guitars , and the country stations , which gave her sexual persona a wide berth . |
| 11 | Some of you may not know that you have recently given me two lovely present , the first , for my birthday , being a beautiful flower arrangement which gave me great pleasure , particularly as I live in the centre of London and my nearest ‘ garden ’ is Regent 's Park ! |
| 12 | I had to stand in front of the whole school which gave me ample opportunity to observe the envy on some girls ' faces because knitting for the troops was a popular pastime then . |
| 13 | They also had an overhead railway which gave me unlimited pleasure and I well remember a wall covered with hundreds of tiny wooden drawers filled with different sizes of screws and nails . |
| 14 | Her long blonde hair seemed to come alive in the sunlight which gave it golden highlights . |
| 15 | Instead of a telling-off , with time to put things right , TDC found itself under a much more strict court order with which it could not negotiate and which gave it little flexibility . |
| 16 | Shortly after the sack , Stamford was granted its great Charter of Incorporation by the newly acclaimed Yorkist king Edward IV , which gave it considerable rewards for its loyalty ( an earlier charter of 972 , which was a post-conquest forgery , and only referred to the mint at Stamford , was still celebrated in 1972 ) . |