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Example sentences for "gave place"

  • The ruling oligarchy, driven from power by Napoleon, gave place to a democracy of a moderate type, the (p.

  • Labor Representation Committee, gave place to that of Labor Party.

  • This ministry remained in office| until the 11th of April, when it gave place to that which it had provisionally succeeded, and which in its turn encountered the opposition of the assembly.

  • Prince Metternich, and Count Nesselrode (the Russian minister for foreign affairs), baffled in their intrigues by the resolution of the sultan, gave place to other and more decisive performers.

  • Upon the breaking up of Sir Robert Peel's administration, he gave place to the Marquis of Normanby, but took up his residence at Paris, and remained there until the time of his decease.

  • It glittered on the shrubs that were scattered at the entrance, and gleam continued to succeed gleam for a few seconds, till they, finally, gave place to unintermitted darkness.

  • Instinctively I recoiled from this image, but it gave place to another.

  • Fever and delirium terminated in lethargic slumber, which, in the course of two hours, gave place to death.

  • To whom we gave place by subjection, no not for an hour; that the truth of the Gospel might continue with you.

  • To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the Gospel might continue with you.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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