Example sentences of "[coord] gave the " in BNC.
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| 1 | rejected the allegation that the wife 's agreement to the opening of the account had been procured by undue influence on the part of her husband , but dealt with ‘ the suggestion that the bank are disentitled to enforce the mandate because they sent or gave the document to Mr. Shephard and did not themselves obtain the defendant 's signature ’ by holding [ 1988 ] 3 All E.R. |
| 2 | ‘ But if you made a bad decision , or gave the wrong judgement against someone in a dispute , then some of your people might suffer . ’ |
| 3 | Tug skippers , who had never before acknowledged the presence of the moored barges , called out , or gave the danger signal — live rapid blasts in succession . |
| 4 | ( 3 ) A notice under this subsection shall give such information identifying or assisting in the identification of the person who committed the act or default or gave the information as is in the possession of the person serving the notice at the time he serves it . |
| 5 | Others smiled , or gave the thumbs-up sign as they drove away . |
| 6 | Under King Charles II Bishop Cosin turned the hall into a chapel after the dilapidations of the Commonwealth general , and gave the medieval windows a clerestory . |
| 7 | Most observers just laughed and gave the cars no chance of starting . |
| 8 | This lasted on and off , for a hundred years and gave the Korean church over 10,000 martyrs . |
| 9 | The ‘ state of war ’ declaration clouded what might otherwise have been a clear-cut case of American aggression and gave the White House the makings of a case under international law . |
| 10 | IF HE is really so crafty , how come he blundered into Kuwait and gave the Americans a reason to hammer him ? |
| 11 | In due course , Lloyd conceded the draw and gave the ball to his batsmen , and the match petered out with England at 156 for 2 . |
| 12 | Like many a mother faced with the apparent intransigence of her child , she ignored the rebuff and gave the servants the best advice any of us could receive : ‘ Do whatever he tells you ’ ( John 2.5 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ So you pushed her out of the car and gave the whole game away ? ’ |
| 14 | First , however , Mrs Browning rose , and gave the branch of wood a good push , making it spark into life ; then built a little edifice of twigs , and applied the bellows . |
| 15 | Then she gauged distances and gave the drum a shove . |
| 16 | Khrushchev lavished banquets , ballets and banter on him and took him tobogganing — then , with mysterious abruptness , withdrew his favours and gave the British a public drubbing over the Suez adventure and the Berlin question , where he was demanding the evacuation of allied troops . |
| 17 | Light from the bathroom filled the area with pale shadows and gave the damaged patches in the mirror an eerie silvery glow . |
| 18 | The government banned all meetings and parades in Belfast for three months , and gave the RUC power to break up any gathering of three or more people . |
| 19 | Different people at different times and in different places , over a period of five years , displayed the same interest in the past , and ( within acceptable degrees of variation ) gave the same account of incidents and conditions , and gave the same weight to it in their explanations of their actions . |
| 20 | For the first time this season , manager Billy Bonds locked the dressing room door after the game and gave the players a piece of his mind . |
| 21 | Hussey disdained the usual public invitation for applicants and gave the governors a choice of one for Checkland 's successor . |
| 22 | ‘ One of the boys came back and gave the game away to Winnie , ’ said Mrs Chilli . |
| 23 | The District was represented by Wash , Pateman and Sophie Green as well as Shearman who had prepared the main conference document and gave the keynote talk . |
| 24 | It compounded what had been learnt , and gave the opportunity to learn new skills through five different types of dive . |
| 25 | It was a brilliant tactical move which killed seven birds with one stone , gave The Smiths four pages in Melody Maker and gave the fanzines a slice of national exposure . |
| 26 | The Osiris myth embodied this cycle of birth , death , and rebirth and gave the promise of immortality . |
| 27 | They simply made a raid on the first restaurant they came to and gave the proprietor fits . |
| 28 | Zeta 's failure to produce genuine thermonuclear neutrons , together with the implications of that failure , led to adverse public reaction and gave the impression that Zeta had been a complete failure . |
| 29 | Hopes of getting an inquiry appear to have been dashed in 1979 when Britain offered its £100 million and gave the Sri-Lankan government the confidence to sweep aside any objections . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , it lost its way converting votes into seats and gave the Conservatives only 305 and Labour 294 , a similar result to that of the BBC/NOP exit poll . |