Example sentences of "gives [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It gives me little pleasure to agree with him , but I do so . |
| 2 | He gives me all different kinds and though I do n't know what they actually are , they all taste good and I appreciate the variety . |
| 3 | Yeah well I du n no I 'm dreading the Easter holidays cos I 've got like erm we 're probably gon na have about two hundred pieces of coursework to mark over Easter then there 's , and they 're sort of you know projecty things and things like that erm and then there 's first week next term there 's like all these second year social , which is well over a hundred of them plus about forty final year projects will come in , plus about I 'm hoping it 'll only be twenty things from Loughborough but it might be as many as , as fifty if the other person gives me all their marking er as they have , they 've given some indication that they will |
| 4 | The newcomer noticed it , declared , ‘ I like hot steam ; it gives me that real sauna feeling ’ , squeezed herself between two naked bodies and at once began to talk about yesterday 's television talk show featuring a famous biologist who had just published his memoirs . |
| 5 | Dad patted me on the head and Mum gives me this little kiss on the cheek and then they went off and left me with this old woman . |
| 6 | We did n't have much to do , just sit at a table or something , and when it 's over I go outside and sit in the car , and Peckinpah comes out and gives me this look . |
| 7 | Nothing gives me more pleasure now and if I go to the to the libraries and a young lad I say a young man like you will come to me and say , Hello Nurse , How are you ? |
| 8 | Do you think that that 's just the way things are and they ca n't change it and society gives me more economic power and he has more natural strength , so this is an on-going battle that wo n't change very much ? |
| 9 | He gives me another burn and he has one for himself , blowing the smoke back into my mouth afterwards . |
| 10 | gives me some very strange looks when we happen to meet . |
| 11 | Marie helps me with my money , and every week she gives me some so I can buy plants and stuff for my room . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It gives me some slight interest in life . ’ |
| 15 | Well I wo n't be going unless Chris gives me some money . |
| 16 | I see erm it also misheard me here because I 'm involved in designing a television series as well on the construction industry also gives me some interesting data about the industry was it ten per cent of the nation 's workforce works for the construction industry which in an average year will turn over thirty five billion pounds |
| 17 | And if she gives me any of her pernickety , finicky quips I 'll throw it over her . |
| 18 | My boyfriend has a full-time job but barely gives me enough money for the shopping . |
| 19 | ‘ 'E gives me enough embarrassment as it is by what 'e gets up to . |
| 20 | Will my right hon. and learned Friend consider advising local authorities — which still seem to be unaware of their present powers on which they can act and circulating information to them to tell them that if they want to come down on Sunday traders , the statute book in Britain already gives them that authority ? |
| 21 | Domingo gives them all , however trivial , golden treatment . |
| 22 | But the ideal is asserted in all areas of psychological method : in observations , questionnaires , interviews , and projective tests , as well as experiments ; and it gives them all a claim on scientific reliability . |
| 23 | Here , they find the light they need in the spring , but as the sun gets hotter the growth of surrounding vegetation gives them some welcome shade . |
| 24 | They will need space and comfort , perhaps a garden if they have always been used to one and enjoy gardening , and , above all , they will need a property that gives them some self esteem and security . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | According to the theory of universal grammar , children start outlife with a universal grammar or language ‘ blueprint ’ in the mind which gives them some idea of the form that any language will take . |
| 27 | If it gives them some real advantages , then it will get used . |
| 28 | People expect of a theory of origins that in some way or other it gives them some quite privileged and special position , and they feel undermined and threatened by a theory of origin which does n't say something really rather special about them . |
| 29 | The legal work they do for other clients gives them this experience . |
| 30 | Gives them more identity |