Example sentences of "[pers pn] gives a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gives a wide variety of definitions : ‘ feeble-minded ’ , ‘ educable defective ’ , ‘ educationally sub-normal ’ , ‘ those having moderate learning difficulties ’ , ‘ dull and backward ’ , ‘ remedial ’ , and ‘ maladjusted and disruptive ’ . |
| 2 | Instead , now she gives a visual expression to Enya 's achingly lonely melodies , songs of prayers , dreams and longings echoing a child 's spiritual innocence . |
| 3 | 18 Then , she gives a small qUeeEEP ? . 19 Generally , Birdie looks at me more with her right eye than her left . |
| 4 | ‘ She gives a quick squirt so I can smell it , then finds a nice , easy chair till she hears me coming . ’ |
| 5 | In her column , which she used almost as a diary , she gives a charming account of the early encounters . |
| 6 | In a crowded restaurant she gives a little scream at the plate which some overworked waitress has set before her and says , ‘ Oh , that 's far , far too much ! |
| 7 | She gives a wistful version of the title song , but her Irma is more EastEnders than Montmatre . |
| 8 | So erm I 'm you kn I do n't propose to do that again because I would n't er I would n't arrange a speaker if we had a full table show but it 's nice to know that it did work out because we were , I was forced into a corner a little bit erm and I think it was worth it because we as I say I 've waited a long time for Danny and he was well worth listening to , I can listen to Danny for hours because he he just speaks and , and tells you about his fish , I 'm , I 'm very very fond of listening to Danny cos I think he gives a good talk . |
| 9 | He gives a definite shape to a side in that he gets his hands on the ball and keeps moving forward . |
| 10 | He gives a convincing account of what is in store for the inhabitants if they continue to resist , and his words acquire the force of the deeds he describes . |
| 11 | As he lies back in his armchair , grey hair falling across his brow and his fingertips steepled on his chest , he gives a rehearsed explanation . |
| 12 | The author was not interested in Islam as a religion ; he gives a grotesque caricature of it . |
| 13 | For example , a manufacturer of upholstery fabric may want to know how well his cloth wears , so he gives a certain piece of the cloth a standardized ‘ rubbing ’ test to see how many rubs it can stand before wearing through . |
| 14 | After about twenty stamps , he gives a big sigh , pours out a glass of wine , downs it in one , swings his great leg out of the window and off he goes . ’ |
| 15 | Then he gives a detailed description of the great Council in St Peter 's with which Anselm 's visit ended . |
| 16 | In Sketches by Boz ( 32 ) he gives a detailed account of a visit to Newgate ; this gaol also features prominently in Barnaby Rudge , and appears in both Oliver Twist ( 16 ) and Great Expectations ( 32 ) . |
| 17 | He gives a passable imitation of a man at the wrong end of a coconut shy . |
| 18 | He gives a running commentary on what is happening at the moment in the game but also gives a players history where he thinks it will help the reader to understand to a fuller extent what is happening in the play . |
| 19 | More generally , he gives a lengthy defence and articulation of the idea that knowledge is ultimately dependent on the senses . |
| 20 | He gives a high laugh . |
| 21 | He gives an expensive present to a dying aunt , hoping to be remembered in her will . |
| 22 | Bayes 's tentative solution to the problem involves assuming that the lack of knowledge of the probability about which an inference is to be made may be represented by a uniform probability distribution , for which he gives an ingenious argument . |
| 23 | He gives an enrapturing spot of rock ‘ n ’ roll , be-bop and soft shoe shuffle in the second act after the cast had larked on with the audience at interval-time and some brave hearts had a bit of a rave-up on stage . |
| 24 | It gives a clearer indication of future cash flows . |
| 25 | Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ? |
| 26 | It gives a great deal of pleasure of motorists and passers-by . |
| 27 | But when mastered it gives a great feeling of exhilaration and achievement , in other words your ego 's going to get built if you 're good on that . |
| 28 | As a compendium of illustrations , invariably in good colour , it gives a visual document of the artist 's development unmatched by any other publication , particularly since it illustrates the small number of major works which could not be loaned to the exhibition . |
| 29 | This analogy can be helpful , particularly if it gives a visual dimension to our thinking . |
| 30 | Its attraction would seem to lie in the fact that it gives a formalized account of some of the popularly held impressions concerning the character of science , its explanatory and predictive power , its objectivity and its superior reliability compared with other forms of knowledge . |