Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] gives [pers pn] [art] [noun] " 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 | The thought of soiled nappies and vomit on my clothes gives me the horrors . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This passage from her writings gives us a sense of proportion about our joy through suffering : |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Only her anger gives her the energy to lift her arm to look at her watch . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Conrad and Philippa think they are real , and their reality gives them the right to doubt mine . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | His victory gives him a 4lbs penalty for the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup at Newbury on November 28 , putting him on 10st 4lbs . |
| 16 | GRAHAM Finney does not mind that his hobby gives him the needle … for it helps him create textile masterpieces . |
| 17 | Lissa said with crushing force , ‘ Whether or not she is your sister gives you no right to make slanderous , evil accusations . |
| 18 | Your employee gives you a maternity certificate ( such as MAT B1 ) showing the date her baby is expected . |