Example sentences of "[pron] gives [pers pn] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All boys when about 12 undergo a great increase festival , the Sari , their second ‘ lessons in wizardry ’ , which gives them the internal clothing of the hunter and fisherman . |
| 2 | We use examples in the textbook , and often on audio , which gives them the greater realism of different voices and sound effects . |
| 3 | The quartet carries an instrumental arsenal which gives it the necessary weight to produce the ominous , bass-heavy sounds that accompany Max Schreck 's marvellously decrepit , zombie-like portrayal of Count Dracula . |
| 4 | You add on that fifty percent or whatever it happens to be to the hundred percent which gives you the new figure . |
| 5 | This is a combined account for borrowing and saving which gives you the automatic right to borrow money . |
| 6 | The poem which gives us the best insight into knightly and aristocratic life c. 1200 , L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal ( the story of William Marshal ) , rarely fails to tell us how much a particular horse was worth : it could be as much as forty , fifty or even a hundred livres — and this at a time when a serf could be bought for ten livres . |
| 7 | North of Dunkery Beacon , for example , the well-preserved ringwork of Sweetworthy is next to the abandoned medieval farm site — and possibly the Saxon predecessor which gives us the -worth element in Sweetworthy . |
| 8 | a Chinese girl she 's living in it , in a kind of a real dive of loft thing to do her art and she gives him the odd painting instead of paying rent . |
| 9 | ‘ The wave is my lover and she gives me the ultimate orgasm . ’ |
| 10 | He comes to the door just like that ; no servants , no security phone , and that by itself gives you the green light ; you have n't the time for any finessing so you just kick him in the balls and follow him inside as he collapses , foetal on the floor . |
| 11 | But the man who gives us the clearest picture of the link between the Spirit and evangelism is St. Luke in his two volume work . |
| 12 | But as you may know , ESP guitars are handmade in just one factory in Tokyo ; this is not one of those companies that farm out their work to whoever gives them the lowest quotation . |
| 13 | To mark his disapproval of my doing so he gives me the wrong ticket and some change , of which the amount , as far as I can see , bears no relation to any previous transaction between us . |
| 14 | He gives us the archetypal wolf in Armani threads in script executive Griffin Mill — Tim Robbins — whose job entails dashing the hopes of thousands of writers each year and making a handful rich . |
| 15 | It gives me the greatest pleasure to second the nomination of Chris as the Honorary Treasurer . |
| 16 | It gives me the most pain and is like a burning sensation . ’ |
| 17 | Tenderness is just something that women like because it gives them the upper hand . |
| 18 | It gives them the upper hand . |
| 19 | I paused before replying to her , because if you pause before replying to people it gives them the foolish idea that you 've actually listened to what they 've said , and I said of course darling . |
| 20 | The third strand — the perennial philosophy — deals specifically with consciousness ; combined with the other two strands , it gives us the new paradigm . |
| 21 | And it gives us the right answers . |
| 22 | It gives you the exclusive right to reproduce your work . |
| 23 | It gives you the fastest route |
| 24 | Well if it if it gives you the required amount or |
| 25 | Er , but I want you to start with this one , because it gives you the most flexibility . |
| 26 | Those obviously include all the further education colleges that do the basic um and the basic things and then the H N C H N D it gives you the open learning things which includes then the private sector people communicate and all sorts of other agencies , erm it depends really what you see as a beginner , do you mean a beginner in the communications field in its entirety , or do you mean a beginner as an in-house industrial editor or a freelancer by definition a beginner is not likely to be a freelancer ? |
| 27 | Try a recording in which the camera looks at the class the whole time so that it gives you the teacher's-eye view . |
| 28 | They agree that theological discourse does not make sense in the terms of ordinary language , but whereas for one this effectively consigns theology to the dustbin , for the other it gives it the same sort of status as speaking in tongues . |
| 29 | What gives you the greatest cause for optimism ? |