Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the West eventually gave the world the Enlightenment , it was Greeks who had provided much of the light . |
| 2 | M. duly gave up possession . |
| 3 | The gang eventually gave up after a priest intervened . |
| 4 | The growled admission obviously gave him no pleasure , and Gina decided it wiser not to point out that in fact he had n't recalled his generosity until she had prompted his memory ! |
| 5 | This finding naturally gave the RTO some confidence in dealing with the arguments of the Claybury and Friern districts that they needed very large increases in revenue to fund community replacement services . |
| 6 | The turbine eventually gave way to a pair of diesel engines . |
| 7 | The agent just gave it to me , which obviously meant he wanted him to do it and is unusual because they do n't normally give out telephone numbers . |
| 8 | The Hamleys bag sat on the dressing table at the end of his room , the one clean , bright item in the place , and Joe lay back on the bed and stared at it as the daylight outside gave way to the evening . |
| 9 | With one last defiant surge of power the jeep finally gave up the ghost . |
| 10 | But her early surge soon gave way to predictable ring-rust after five years off the professional circuit . |
| 11 | The military-oriented industries founded by Peter on forced labour gradually gave way to more diversified manufacture based on hired labour ( generally serfs still sending payments back to their villages ) . |
| 12 | The GST-pou[c] fusion protein always gave two specific bands in GMSA . |
| 13 | THE financier who made a billion when Chancellor Lamont lost the battle for the pound yesterday gave £32 million to charity . |
| 14 | A Yeltsin aide also gave warning that even if the congress voted to oust him , the president would refuse to quit on the grounds that the decision was illegal . |
| 15 | A bad snap on a Colts ' punt attempt later gave Pittsburgh the ball on the Indianapolis 34 and Malone connected with Brenberg for the final Steelers ' first half score with 1:03 remaining . |
| 16 | Aimee was the first to agree that this short and quite blunt cut instantly gave her hair new movement and swing . |
| 17 | The Pretender nearly gave the game away by holding his skirts too high crossing a stream : ‘ some women whom they met reported that they had seen a very big woman , who looked like a man in woman 's clothes . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Fans on the South Terrace really gave players flak in the old days . |
| 19 | It was politicians , captains of industry , people of influence in all quarters to whom his status as a public figure now gave him access . |
| 20 | Even so , the department then gave Belmont a year to introduce the " necessary improvements " . |
| 21 | The acting captain Terry Butcher , bloodied but unbowed , gave a particularly stirring performance that night and was ably complemented by Des Walker until the Nottingham Forest defender almost gave the match away with an aberrant pass back . |
| 22 | The County defender needlessly gave away a corner with a wild back pass to Cherry and Lineker rose to head home Gray 's place kick through a crowd of players . |
| 23 | Recent absurdities of the tort litigation system have included the parents ofa teenager who had committed suicide suing the Catholic church because a priest allegedly gave their son poor advice , and a series of bankrupt borrowers suing their banks for lending them too much money . |
| 24 | The Department certainly gave Tom McCormack a send off he wo n't forget — and neither will his bank manager ! ! |
| 25 | Her dedicated persistence finally gave a delegation of East End working women the opportunity of themselves demanding the vote from the prime minister , H. H. Asquith ( later first Earl of Oxford and Asquith ) . |
| 26 | See all the firms I 've been to up till the Gas Board just gave you your money back for your pension . |
| 27 | But Mum just gave them one of her black looks and elbowed her way past the two women and went into Granny 's house . |
| 28 | When ‘ direct rule ’ was imposed in March 1972 , the Special Powers ( Northern Ireland ) Act and legislation to Permit suspects to be interned without trial already gave additional anti-terrorist powers not available in mainland legislation . |
| 29 | Half gave age limits of 35 or under and in the private sector most gave age preferences . |
| 30 | The excellence of this machine eventually gave him a monopoly in refrigerated shipping . |