Example sentences of "[adv] gives [pers pn] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because his refusal to be sincere about his feelings toward her leads her further away from her own values , she begins to resent the way in which he constantly gives her the linguistic slip : ‘ Concepts which still meant much to her , by which she had once lived , were swerved aside with a smart epigram , a pun , a quotation , a dirty story ’ ( 170 ) . |
| 2 | Individualism of this variety strives to put individuals in their social context , but nevertheless gives them the last laugh . |
| 3 | Bah , the professor always gives me the dirty jobs while he plays with his monster . |
| 4 | well that was an old banger were n't it ? , she always , she always gives me the little bags on the carpet , aye bags |
| 5 | It still gives us the same answer cos we multiply to get the indices . |
| 6 | Furthermore — and this probably gives us the best clue as to the intrinsic nature of schizophrenia — there is fluctuation in mental state over a much shorter time-scale . |
| 7 | He then gives them the following details . |
| 8 | The band maximum then gives us the vertical ionization energy , and the band origin gives the adiabatic ionization energy . |