Example sentences of "he give an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will the Leader of the House confirm the report in yesterday 's Financial Times that the rules for allocating this money were changed in 1988 with the approval of the Government , and will he give an immediate assurance that the new rules will be obeyed ? |
| 2 | He gives an expensive present to a dying aunt , hoping to be remembered in her will . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Tooting displayed the facts well , and it was perverse of Conservative Members to pick him up for a slip of the tongue when he gave an incorrect figure , which it is relatively easy to do . |
| 6 | He gave an ironic smile , content that Montgomery had been taken in . |
| 7 | He gave an ironic snort of laughter . |
| 8 | He gave an ironic laugh . |
| 9 | He gave an uneasy laugh . |
| 10 | He gave an introductory chord . |
| 11 | He gave an elegant shrug . |
| 12 | He gave an exaggerated stretch , displaying the powerful biceps and the soft inside skin of his arms . |
| 13 | Instead he gave an exaggerated sigh . |
| 14 | Anselm himself never quoted this analogy , but he went so far as to warn the pope that if he gave an adverse judgement in the dispute between Canterbury and York ‘ I would on no account remain in England ; for I neither ought to , nor can allow the primacy of our church to be destroyed while I am alive . ’ |
| 15 | This was especially true when he gave an impromptu lecture on the nature of matter in 1844 — the story is that Charles Wheatstone panicked and fled , leaving it to Faraday as chairman to satisfy the audience — and another on ray-vibrations in 1846 . |
| 16 | Kajiyama had caused widespread outrage in the USA in September 1990 when , while serving as Justice Minister , he gave an impromptu press conference in Tokyo and compared the influence of blacks in the USA with prostitutes [ see p. 37715 ] . |
| 17 | He gave an indifferent shrug , extracted the piece of card from inside his coat and threw it with a show of distaste into an overflowing rubbish bin . |
| 18 | ‘ It really has been an amazing recovery and I understand he gave an outstanding performance in his comeback match . ’ |
| 19 | England … … … 0 Australia … … .. 0 STEVE TAYLOR probably established himself as the rightful successor to his more famous namesake , Ian , when he gave an outstanding performance of goalkeeping in England 's final game in the Lada Classic at Luton yesterday - a goalless draw with the world champions . |
| 20 | from Gladstone and Gannon , and er he gave an awful lot of people at the S U and at Alcuin J C R a lot of grief over the provost , who then wrote them a letter saying I , Jim am the fault of all this and just generally made the students look even dafter for |
| 21 | Over dinner he gave an enthralling account of the entire mission , their excitement at penetrating the Flow undetected , matched only by their relief at finding the way out , and of how on reaching home waters they had been cheered into Wilhelmshaven by the rest of the German fleet and flown to Berlin for a celebratory banquet with Hitler . |
| 22 | He gave an impressive speech to a receptive audience of 250 members and guests , including the then CIOB President Elect Robert Wharton and representatives of all the professional bodies prominent on the Scottish Construction scene . |
| 23 | He gave an embarrassed smile . |
| 24 | He gave an embarrassed laugh , then looked at his wrist-watch , saying , ‘ No , it ca n't be ten past seven . |
| 25 | He gave an embarrassed laugh. : |
| 26 | He gave an angry scream , ran out of the house and hurried through the streets until he reached Bill Sikes ' house . |
| 27 | He lifted one palm uppermost and for a moment seemed half swayed , but his scepticism reasserted itself and he gave an aggressive jerk of his head . |
| 28 | He gave an indistinct signal towards the sideboard and a bottle of rather sweeter pudding wine . |
| 29 | JUNIOR education minister William Shelton did not know whether he was coming or going last week when he gave an experimental communications system known as Project Universe its first public airing . |
| 30 | He gave an expressive little shrug . |