Example sentences of "[pron] gives [pers pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Thank you very much , er , conference , and indeed it gives me great pleasure to address you this morning . |
| 32 | It gives me great pleasure to commend to the House the fourth report by the Select Committee on Social Security . |
| 33 | And now let us proceed with the next business of the day , it gives me great pleasure your Royal Highness to er invite you to present several Save The Children awards this morning . |
| 34 | It gives me great pleasure because people are extremely kind and extremely generous . |
| 35 | But it gives me great pleasure to introduce Mark Lennox Boyd , the parliamentary under secretary of state , the foreign and commonwealth office , a position he 's held for some time . |
| 36 | Then it gives me great pleasure now to erm I always knew that John al , has had something different from the rest of us you know he has that kind of air does n't he , that that status in the pulpit which you know , ? |
| 37 | It gives me great pleasure to announce that that would mean Cherwell District Council would have to disappear as well , and that would be another blip off the horizon erm but that what would happen you would therefore have a smaller authority , who would then become the Education Authority , and that would be would have to be , I think , somewhere in between the current District Council size in Cherwell or the Vale , of what about a hundred thousand , and the present county , which is rather more than half a million . |
| 38 | It gives me great satisfaction but we are not shouting about being second for what might be a few hours . ’ |
| 39 | It gives me little pleasure to agree with him , but I do so . |
| 40 | A lot of these breeds come from Britain ; they are mostly British , and when you think of seeing the mull , as we do around the countryside , coming back to their proper standard , it gives me considerable pleasure . |
| 41 | It gives me special pleasure to be present at the wedding of my good friends Annabelle and Steven , because I introduced them at the Dashing Disco/Royal Hotel/Country Club and because I have known both of them for many years at school/the tennis club . |
| 42 | It gives me some satisfaction to learn that 12 years later British Airways , privatised , efficient , and highly profitable , has become the biggest international airline in the world , while Lufthansa , struggling with high costs , has seen its reputation slip . |
| 43 | It gives me some satisfaction that those who laughed at me and poked fun at me now have evidence in front of their very eyes . |
| 44 | can I say that it gives me particular pleasure to introduce Steven not least , because Steven Hughes is one of our colleagues in parliament who does a fantastic job for the trade union movement . |
| 45 | Here , I 'd like to say that I , I do very much welcome the abandonment of the two wayside routes it gives me particular satisfaction because you recall earlier in the year there was some irresponsible press comments on the subject which greatly upset a lot of people |
| 46 | It gives them greater job mobility but also a large number of people aged in their 20s who would not have had a pension now have them . |
| 47 | They 're usually happy to help out , as it gives them extra pocket money . |
| 48 | It gives them total protection against rain and wind , without weight or bulk , while remaining breathable so that their perspiration is n't trapped inside . |
| 49 | The girls are required to plan their own day , and when they are used to this system , most prefer it to the structure of school and it gives them some control over their daily lives . |
| 50 | The presence of maids obviates any need for husbands to undertake traditionally female tasks and so , while a woman following her career does challenge a husband 's machismo in the sense that it gives her some independence ( both economically and socially ) , it does not do so in the sense of changing his role in the home . |
| 51 | Well I suppose it gives her er er , it gives her some meaning . |
| 52 | Des starts to offer coffee , but it gives her another opening : ‘ No , I 'll go make my own , thank you . |
| 53 | It gives him great pleasure to incarnate himself in the shape of man as Christ himself did . |
| 54 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 55 | He gets a lot of comfort from the breastfeed , and as he has never had a bottle , and does n't drink milk from a cup , I feel it gives him some nourishment , too . |
| 56 | Molly 's uncle , Philip , Lord Noel-Baker , one of our Vice-Presidents recently celebrated his 90th birthday and it gives us great pleasure to add our greetings to the many he has received from all over the world . |
| 57 | Meantime it gives us great consolation to know that you and our dear children are well . |
| 58 | You do n't have to , it does n't have to be mined , we do n't have to import it from any Arabs , it 's ours , we own it and it gives us that amount of energy but only if we develop the fast er reactors . |
| 59 | And that 's , I think , important because it gives us some concept of how far we would have to go to get there , as it were , apart from seeing it . |
| 60 | Despite its many inadequacies , it gives us some picture of Sussex life as the Normans strengthened their hold . |