Example sentences of "and gave [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was now able to pursue his interest in book illustration and gave work to Edward Bawden , Robert Medley , Humphrey Spender , Edward Burra , Ayrton , Vaughan and Searle among others . |
| 2 | The Sotheby sale in 1936 made the contents of Newton 's Portsmouth papers much better known and gave rise to Lord Keynes 's famous description of Newton as the ‘ last of the magicians ’ . |
| 3 | As the struggle progressed he came to see the inadequacies of the term and realized that it was too constricted in its meaning and gave rise to confusion and misunderstanding . |
| 4 | Tudor England was no cultured and sophisticated Italian state , but the country did feel the influence of the humanists and gave hospitality to Erasmus . |
| 5 | These infants died because their mothers could not purchase adequate food and gave birth to babies under the viable weight threshold . |
| 6 | Then she flung herself down into her pillows and gave way to tears of frustration and rage . |
| 7 | As the sound of their giggling chatter reached him on the wind , his amusement faded and gave way to loathing . |
| 8 | The tension in her slackened and gave way to curiosity as she pulled out instead a gold-embossed card . |
| 9 | Until the present century water transport was of great importance in the fens and the lock at Jesus Green was the highest on the River Cam and gave access to Quayside . |