Sentence examples for by gave from inspiring English sources

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A conservatively dressed couple walked by, gave me a strange look, and didn't respond to my evening greeting, but, indeed, the steps were counted.

A British Army major named Billy Patterson, who came across the place in the 1950s while stationed near by, gave it such a boost in the UK that at one time 25 per cent of Alpbach's skiers were British (though today it is more of a German stronghold).

As the mayor likes to remark, the hog butcher to the world has become the world's risk manager.Chicago is also close to an abundance of coal (to the south) and large deposits of iron (to the north), which in days gone by gave it yet another proud title: steel capital of the world.

Nearly everyone who came by gave something to the Salvation Army.

YAH, STOP ABORTION!" Drivers passing by gave double-takes at my sign not in a way that suggested they'd changed their opinion on the abortion issue, but more in a manner of incredulousness, given that my sign featured a bloody, hacked up fetus and we were in a nice, quiet neighborhood.

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A passer-by gave him a shirt and he used it to stanch the bleeding.

On a sweltering summer afternoon, when we filmed Mr. Porto and Mr. Atkins kissing outside Madison Square Garden, several passers-by gave the couple obvious looks of disgust.

When told what the impromptu parade of darkly dressed people was all about, some passers-by gave a thumbs up to the mission.

When one resident had a flat tire on her way to Bloethe's Market, a passer-by gave her a ride, even though it was out of his way.

Passers-by gave us curious looks: eight people closely studying the stones in a wall or the trunk of a sycamore.

(At one point Nocturnalist — in the white jumpsuit! — got separated from the crowd. Unasked, a passer-by gave us directions. Wait, how did he know where a secret Parisian pop-up dinner party was being held? we asked. "I'm a New Yorker," he said).

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