Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb -s] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My work gives me a feeling of achievement . |
| 2 | ‘ My favourite thing is when my daddy gives me a piggy-back . |
| 3 | In my case , for example , my husband gives me every help . |
| 4 | Cook the din-dins , put the cat out , clear up the junk on the great man 's desk , and hope my lord throws me a kind word from time to time . |
| 5 | If Somerset should opt once more for a batsman , my instinct tells me the favourite would be Richie Richardson . |
| 6 | Yeah I , I 've I 've sort of heard that it 's quite good , my brother watches it a lot . |
| 7 | ‘ The fact that you are here in my office gives me the right to ask questions and demand answers , and you 're going to tell me what I want to know , Lissa . ’ |
| 8 | In this last case the prime purpose of the prize is to benefit its giver ; if Barclays Bank had to pay for the column inches of publicity that its award brings it every year , there would be no Barclay 's Prize . |
| 9 | Its complexity makes it the rock upon which the left realist argument has foundered . |
| 10 | They not only make an income from their paintings , and the cards from them , but their work gives them the challenge to succeed despite handicap . |
| 11 | The way they set about their job makes them a hell of a hard team to beat . |
| 12 | This passage from her writings gives us a sense of proportion about our joy through suffering : |
| 13 | She responds to a comment by the monk on how she appears to have passed the night in sexual " labour " by bemoaning what she suffers as a wife , implying that her husband gives her no pleasure in bed and is mean with his money . |
| 14 | Only her anger gives her the energy to lift her arm to look at her watch . |
| 15 | What might perhaps be rescued however , to which Dworkin gives us a clue , is the sense of a cluster of very basic rules , the observation of which seems necessary for the understanding of rational existence as we know it . |
| 16 | Buzzcocks differ in only one way from their contemporaries : they possess a spark of originality ( that was important once , remember ? ) , and their music gives you the impression they spent longer than the customary ten minutes clutching the quill in preparation to write . |
| 17 | Conrad and Philippa think they are real , and their reality gives them the right to doubt mine . |
| 18 | Their agility gives them the edge , not so much in dispossessing an attacker but in evading attempts to win back the ball and in creating time and space for passing and regenerating their own offence . |
| 19 | Its preciousness makes it a symbol of God 's love for human beings . |
| 20 | The ‘ alimony drone ’ — the leech-woman whose divorce gives her a meal ticket for life so that she can spend her days lolling by a pool peeling grapes while ex-hubby slaves twenty hours a day to earn enough to keep in her in luxury — does not exist here . |
| 21 | Someone whose job allows them the flexibility to attend meetings and participate in programmes |
| 22 | The special position of the chief constable has been discussed in Chapter 4 , but there are other officers whose position grants them a degree of independent authority . |
| 23 | Hospitals were to become a setting later in the decade for ‘ Doctor ’ films , ‘ Carry Ons ’ and such tepid dramas as Behind the Mask ( 1958 ) , but the genre can be traced back to White Corridors ( 1951 ) where , amidst the routine romantic squabbles , and an occasional lecture on the working of the NHS , two strong stories evolve : a researcher develops a drug that will kill infections resistant to penicillin and his lover secures herself a registrar 's post against nepotistic competition , by skilfully operating on a patient her rival has misdiagnosed . |
| 24 | GRAHAM Finney does not mind that his hobby gives him the needle … for it helps him create textile masterpieces . |
| 25 | His employer offers him a rise of £2,500 but instead he wants to boost his pension by this amount . |
| 26 | Then the butcher goes to the church to take leave of the priest , and as a token of his gratitude sells him the sheepskin at a knock-down price of two sous . |
| 27 | If your hair causes you no concern , count yourself lucky . |
| 28 | Lissa said with crushing force , ‘ Whether or not she is your sister gives you no right to make slanderous , evil accusations . |
| 29 | Your employee gives you a maternity certificate ( such as MAT B1 ) showing the date her baby is expected . |
| 30 | Sometimes changing beliefs will bring spectacular results within days : you feel radiant with health , your boss offers you a promotion , you meet a new friend , you win some money , you feel a sense of inner peace — or whatever your new beliefs would attract into your life . |