Example sentences of "[pron] gave this " in BNC.
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| 1 | By happy chance I gave this a backdrop of an old hardy-hybrid rhododendron with mauve flowers , and underplanted it with ground-covering , spotted-leafed pulmonarias ( lungworts ) . |
| 2 | I gave this approach this title following a pamphlet which reproduces a lecture given by the English Anglican bishop of high church disposition John Austin Baker to a conference of the Movement for the Ordination of Women.l8 I believe that it is ( in less thought-out form ) widely followed by proponents of the ordination of women , perhaps of a less radical variety , and certainly I would think that it appeals to many men . |
| 3 | Erm with very little choice , now I gave this |
| 4 | ‘ It 's about what faith , courage and the judicial system can do , because nobody gave this kid the time of day about this case , ’ he added . |
| 5 | for example , the Act says that governors are to be responsible for disciplinary procedures for staff , and a collective agreement which gave this function to the LEA could therefore not apply . |
| 6 | The next extracts provide some explanation of the social context which gave this distinction such a high profile . |
| 7 | The woman who gave this account thereafter changed her established way of life to become an activist in the Greenham Common protest against the siting there of cruise missiles . |
| 8 | They come into the theatre , it 's like our home , and they sit there saying , ‘ Oh , she 's absolutely not a Tatyana ’ , or ‘ Can you imagine what kind of leadership is in our theatre — who is the idiot who gave this lady the role of Aida ? ’ . |
| 9 | In the event it was not going to be Auguste who gave this information but Naseby 's own sergeant , who burst in with the news that the Cowes harbour master had telephoned to announce the arrival of the yacht Osborne with the Prince of Wales aboard . |
| 10 | He was the only subject who gave this pattern of judgments . |
| 11 | None more so than for four of the oldest surviving players to win Cup medals in the thirties — the Belfast Celtic quartet Sid McIlroy , Norman Kernaghan , Jimmy McAlinden and Harry Walker who gave this appropriate advice to young players — enjoy your football and not make money their God . |
| 12 | This was only part of a general sort of pattern as it were , where people were beginning to impinge on their lives , there was another well-known local alcoholic there who was knocking on doors trying to get money off people , and there 's several elderly people who gave this woman money , because they were frightened that if they did n't something would happen to them . |
| 13 | ‘ So you see , Bert , I think you gave this young lady the wrong idea about my visitors here . |
| 14 | That was quite a performance you gave this evening . ’ |
| 15 | She gave this powerful sense of her character 's emotional repression , and the sense was there that she had had a hard life . |
| 16 | After rubbing down and applying a one-step primer and undercoat we gave this set of drawers a modernist look by painting different sections in a variety of bright , matt colours . |
| 17 | ‘ It was the last Formula Three race of the season and we gave this Brazilian Ayrton Senna da Silva a drive , ’ he said . |
| 18 | We were told that this money was being collected for the families and we gave this money through the official trade union for that purpose . |
| 19 | ‘ Whoever gave this drug to Rachel is evil and must be stopped before they kill someone . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Whoever gave this drug to Rachel is evil and must be stopped before they kill someone , ’ he said . |
| 21 | And there then this was discontinued in they gave this beer to keep for lack of exercise keep them regular . |
| 22 | What gave this and subsequent works weight was their sheer authenticity : real people spoke through the text , via Terkel 's tape recorder . |
| 23 | What gave this man the right to speak to people like he did ! |
| 24 | That 's what gave this fellow certainty . |