Example sentences of "give [pers pn] a very " in BNC.
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| 1 | That experience , which has brought me to the province so often , has given me a very deep sense of admiration for the resilience and warmth of the people . ’ |
| 2 | They have n't given me a very large space . |
| 3 | The night 's events must have given them a very clear idea of the depth of local opinion . ’ |
| 4 | We 'll be seeing the E F T A T colleagues on Thursday , I hope you 'll give them a very very warm welcome . |
| 5 | It did n't give me a very positive image to actually find other people , but I used to go to South London drag pubs , such as the Vauxhall , with schoolfriends when we were in sixth form . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd give you a very good run for your money . ’ |
| 7 | And at the moment the building societies and banks are chasing business , they 're really desperate , and er they 'll , they 'll give you a very good fixed rate . |
| 8 | The fact is of course that what we 're seeing here is a tiny minority of people , and I could bring thousands of people here tonight who 've been in the services , thousands of parents of those people who 've been in the services , who would give you a very very different story . |
| 9 | I too could give you a very good speech on traffic island but I 'll save that for the Transportation Highways and Engineering Sub- Committee . |
| 10 | And so we 've got to desire to have our broken relationship with God restored , you see we need to receive what God offers in Christ , the fact that Christ died for our sins does not mean a thing to us until we say yes I accept it for me , I believe you died for me , I receive it , I 'm linked into it , you see your house can be , let me give you a very simple illustration , your house is linked up with er Eastern Electricity and there is so many er I du n no what , what the what it is , but there is the power there , the there are , there are kilo watts of power on tap in your home , but in the winter you 're cold , when it gets dark outside , it 's dark inside the cooker , the electric cooker does n't work , the fridge is not operating the food is going rotten , you ca n't watch a programme on television , why , because you have n't plugged into the source of the power , it 's as simple as that , you ca n't blame the Electricity Board , it 's not Eastern Electricity 's fault it 's your fault because all the plugs are out of the sockets and it does n't matter what the Electricity Board does short of blowing up your house , they can do nothing for you and it does n't matter what God has done in Christ until we as it were to also plug in , it does n't mean a thing to us , but the moment we link in , that 's the change , the lights come on , there 's , there 's heat there , the stove works , the , the radio , the television , the record player , they 're all operating , the freezer 's working , the situation has changed , we needs to receive what God offers us in Christ |
| 11 | I had in mind Vladimir Nabokov , if you 're willing to consider him as an American writer , John Barth , Richard Brortigan , Robert Coover. erm As I say they 're all writers who might come under the heading of , of postmodern meta-fiction writers who do not take for granted that fiction has a , a direct and clearly understandable relationship with society so that it can erm give you a very clear picture of society at a given moment , which was generally the case in the , with British fiction in the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | Okay , I 'll give you a very brief background to the project . |
| 13 | What with the cacophony of sounds assailing us from all sides and the crowd of shoppers jostling and pressing between and around us , this reply may not give him a very clear indication of where I am standing . |
| 14 | This is an ideal species to be grown in the background of the tank and will give it a very natural look . |
| 15 | Our other voice , the Gothic voice , can give us a very different sensation . |
| 16 | We may also draw attention to the fact that it is possible logically , even if not biologically , to use old , with the same effect as it has in the phrase Charlie 's old school , in combination with the word mother ; the incongruity of the result should give us a very sharp view of the difference between the ordinary referential variation of adjectives used relativistically , and the semantic effect produced by the difference in type of relation at work in ( 33 ) and ( 34 ) . |
| 17 | And , his answer to that , is that psychoanalysis can give us a very interesting and unique insight into , into religion , and this was an insight which had emerged in the course of , the nineteen twenties , following the developments of psychoanalysis that occurred after the First World War , which we 've already looked at and is essentially the concept of transference . |
| 18 | Now the major problem that came up the other day was that , I thought I had given you a very easy extract to translate into modern English , and it turned out not to be such an easy extract , obviously . |
| 19 | Gliders have very low stick forces and the lower flying speeds give them a very high rate of pitch . |
| 20 | ‘ Right from the start , we give them a very clear picture that they 're coming to work in someone 's home . |
| 21 | ‘ When someone starts work here , we give them a very clear picture that they 're coming to work in someone 's home . |
| 22 | So whi what I 'm trying to say to you is that you should have four sides of written text , whether it 's on two pages , three or four What I will do is go through the headings and give you a very brief description of that so that you know roughly what 's in them . |
| 23 | They give you a very good indication . |
| 24 | A series of many similar observations can be made for a number of different tribes and issues , and cumulatively these give us a very clear picture of the extensive series of Celtic silver coinages of the first century BC . |
| 25 | The States give us a very high percentage of visitors to this particular region . |
| 26 | It may well be that many local-authority accountants have no detailed working knowledge of school-based financial-management systems — to give them a very grand title for their current state of development . |
| 27 | You 've got to give them a very specific task to do and give them the support and the materials to do it with and make sure it happens so that when they turn up at 3 o ’ clock , it 's set up to go . |
| 28 | Just as an example , because we do n't like talking about cold , but just to give you a very simplistic example of how it can work . |
| 29 | Financially , I have the wherewithall to give her a very good life . |
| 30 | Her hear , damp from the bath , had been pulled back from her face , giving it a very youthful expression . |