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gave and her
Rod gave her a warm pat on the shoulder before he replied.
`` Well, that's the only way to be '', Mrs. Forsythe said, and gave her brassy laugh.
Then when Miss Langford was on the end of the line of girls, Jack, in the middle of the line, gave an extra hard pull and the young teacher sprawled backwards, sitting down hard, her dress flying over her head.
He thought she gave him that look with the hidden something in it as he let her hand go.
By her eighteenth birthday her bent for writing was so evident that Papa and Mamma gave her a Life Of Dickens as a spur to her aspiration.
At last her lawyer, Arthur D. Cloud, gave up the case because she turned down three successive settlements he arranged.
Captain Heard gave orders for the ship to be anchored in the Bay of Bengal until he could obtain the services of a reputable pilot to steer her through the shallow waters.
That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.
Offer her a cup of tea and she would say, `` Why, these cups look just like a set I gave to the Salvation Army last year ''.
So Linda Kay gave up asking, and accepted her reprieve.
The events of the last quarter of an hour, mysterious to any bird accustomed only to the predictable life of coop and barnyard, had overcome the doctor's hen and she gave out a series of cackly wails, perhaps mourning her nest, but briefly enjoyed.
Circumstances gave her almost undisputed sway over child-rearing, money-handling and home maintenance.
The New York D.A. gave her another, The Golden Girl of cafe society.
Houston police gave her a third, less flamboyant, title, prostitute.
`` Our information is that she gave the proceeds of her acts to Jelke ''.
The Greek evidently fell for her, `` Monsieur X '' recounted, and to clinch what he thought was an affair in the making he gave her 100,000 francs ( about $300 ) and led her to the roulette tables.
The legend as it exists in Fall River today always includes the solemn assurance that Bridget returned to Ireland after the trial with a `` big bundle '' of cash which Lizzie gave her for keeping her mouth shut.

gave and opportunity
McBride gave him his opportunity when he showed up in town with a pistol on his hip.
His present maximum altitude, up against the overcast, gave him the opportunity to exploit his advantages.
The Rachmaninoff Prelude No. 12, Op. 32, for instance, gave her an opportunity to exploit one of her special facilities -- the ability to produce fine deep-sounding bass tones while contrasting them simultaneously with fine silver filagree in the treble.
A revolt which broke out among native Egyptian soldiers gave him his opportunity to seize the throne.
This gave Andronikos the opportunity to seize the crown for himself, leaving his retirement in 1182 and marching to Constantinople with an army that ( according to non-Byzantine sources ) included Muslim contingents.
The victory gave Zurich the opportunity to force the Catholic cantons out of the government in the county of Baden and the adjacent area of the Freie Ämter.
A stay at the court of Svend Estridson gave him the opportunity to find information about the history and geography of Denmark, and the Scandinavian countries.
Accounts of this kind gave the owner the opportunity to take better economic decisions because the information was purposefully selected and arranged.
Moreover, this disposition – concave in relation to the Allied army – gave Marlborough the opportunity to form a more compact line, drawn up in a shorter front between the ‘ horns ’ of the French crescent ; when the Allied blow came it would be more concentrated and carry more weight.
Although he wanted the opportunity to put his principles in practice, Confucius gave up on this idea in the end.
Woolwich Arsenal's move to North London in 1913 gave Charlton an opportunity to develop, and they became a senior side by joining the Lewisham League.
Similarly, President James Mancham's attendance of the 1977 CHOGM gave Prime Minister France-Albert René the opportunity to seize power in the Seychelles.
The Supreme Court of California, in affirming the disbarment, held that Rosenthal engaged in transactions involving undisclosed conflicts of interest, took positions adverse to his former clients, overstated expenses, double-billed for legal fees, failed to return client files, failed to provide access to records, failed to give adequate legal advice, failed to provide clients with an opportunity to obtain independent counsel, filed fraudulent claims, gave false testimony, engaged in conduct designed to harass his clients, delayed court proceedings, obstructed justice and abused legal process.
In 1834 Dost Mohammad defeated an invasion by the former ruler, Shuja Shah Durrani, but his absence from Kabul gave the Sikhs the opportunity to expand westward.
It gave students access to their education records, an opportunity to seek to have the records amended, and some control over the disclosure of information from the records.
A struggle for succession in the mid-twelfth century gave the Fujiwara an opportunity to regain their former power.
However it gave him an opportunity to create cultural programmes with contributions from T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, E. M. Forster, Ahmed Ali, Mulk Raj Anand, and William Empson among others.
The contacts that he made at De Stijl gave him the opportunity to exhibit abroad as well.
Production Company with Walter Folmer and John Zwicki, which gave him his first opportunity to direct.
There were a great many rival Christian denominations holding very diverse opinions ; the atmosphere of dispute and confusion gave Fox an opportunity to put forward his own beliefs through his personal sermons.
Visiting Ireland also gave him the opportunity to preach against what he saw as the excesses of the Roman Catholic Church, in particular the use of ritual.
The culture war gave secularists and socialists an opportunity to attack all religions, an outcome that distressed the Protestants, including Bismarck, who was a devout pietistic Protestant.
The Punch years gave Mayhew the opportunity to meet talented illustrators who he later employed to work from daguerreotypes on London Labour and the London Poor.
The Standard Oil Company was slow to appreciate the economic potential of the Spindletop oil field, and the Gulf Coast generally, which gave greater opportunity to others ; Spindletop became the birthplace of oil giants Texaco and Gulf Oil.

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