Example sentences of "gave [pron] [noun] for the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ They gave me sandwiches for the journey , but I left them on my bunk . ’ |
| 2 | The officials who sent them off from the ports with the loaded railway-wagons gave them rations for the number of days which the grain would in normal times take to its destination . |
| 3 | This gave them sympathy for the victims of the slave trade and slavery and , as the abolitionist John Bowring stressed , formed a strong bond of union between them . |
| 4 | These changes gave museums the right to retain what they earned , to privatise some of their services such as restaurants , publishing etc , and also gave them responsibility for the maintenance of their buildings . |
| 5 | No satisfactory answer to this problem was forthcoming meantime , but at least the situation gave them time for the main Scots foot army to come up . |
| 6 | The Wessex Regional Transfusion Centre wishes to thank those members of the staff of AEA Technology who gave their blood for the benefit of others on Tuesday , 12 and Wednesday , 13 January 1993 . |
| 7 | She gave her orders for the next week 's farm work and then turned to one of the men . |
| 8 | Roffman and Purdy have quite rightly stressed that Vidor 's traditional populism gave him sympathy for the underdog , but prevented him from moving towards any collectivist political situation . |
| 9 | Falkenhayn wavered , finally gave his permission for the new attack , and even allocated a fresh division for it . |
| 10 | He gave his life for the King , because , as I entered , Detchard pulled himself free and drove his sword into the doctor 's side . |
| 11 | Lord Acton gave it expression for the first time in 1887 , in a letter which Tolkien might have been interested enough to read — it is in a strongly anti-Papal context . |
| 12 | So people gave us money for the stamps that we put on and other people gave us donations . |
| 13 | They gave us ammunition for the guns , and many people were shot . " |