Example sentences of "she give [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Lords , as only one thousand of the twenty four thousand schools er have opted out during five years of this does not that suggest that the schools themselves and the governors and the parents to whom the Minister refers , are not convinced of the advantages and in those circumstances was she given absolute guarantee that no opt- out will be allowed without a ballot ? |
| 2 | Careful scrutiny of these accounts reveals that in almost no instance does she give any hint that there were signs of mental illness in any of her subjects — even among those where this is known to have occurred . |
| 3 | Only in the third game did she give free rein to her flair and Jackman was thrown off her stride by the abrupt increase in pace . |
| 4 | She gives fellow sufferers her sympathy and sound advice |
| 5 | ‘ She gives new insights , new ways of looking at things … she helped me begin to see pain as gift and grace . ’ |
| 6 | And she gives extra points for presentation . |
| 7 | She gave invaluable service to the Red Cross , St Dunstan 's and the Voluntary Aid Detachment , and was appointed a JP in 1951 . |
| 8 | She gave little moans of pleasure and Harry felt the quick , fierce response of his body . |
| 9 | Following the outbreak of the South African war in 1899 she gave private classes in London in these languages — classes which were transferred to King 's College , London , in 1901 ; in 1910 these were formally recognized by the University of London , the first British university to promote the teaching of Bantu languages ( Swahili had been taught in Berlin since 1887 ) . |
| 10 | She gave one group of male volunteers a new colour vocabulary to learn in which the terms were centred on the four basic colours . |
| 11 | There are two very strong pieces of evidence confirming that the examples of inherently restrictive predicative adjectives accompanied by articles must indeed be regarded as entity-identifying expressions : First , they can quite generally appear where entity expressions appear , including positions which are not even superficially available to an ordinary adjective : ( 24 ) the rudest came from your cousin she gave motherly advice to a second , and a stern warning to a third the oldest of the aircraft should be scrapped ( 25 ) the honest deserves the appointment Bert offered a peanut to the untidy the elegant of the vases lay on its side |
| 12 | As she gave oral sex to the other man , Davis watched fascinated , and , asking her to instruct him how to do it , took over from her . |
| 13 | After she retired from the headship of her department in 1920 she gave much time to various women 's groups and to societies for the promotion of women 's interests . |
| 14 | As president of the Federation of University Women she gave much time near the end of her life to compiling the register of university women for war work . |
| 15 | She gave that piece of gallantry the scorn it deserved . |
| 16 | Mr Goldring claimed she gave 15-year-old Jonathan Jobson his diabetic grandmother 's hypoglycaemic tablets . |
| 17 | She gave another sigh . |
| 18 | She gave another shake of her head . |
| 19 | She gave another tug at her hand . |
| 20 | Anything of a supposedly unmentionable nature she gave added emphasis to by leaving a little pause , peering suspiciously around her as though someone might be listening , then saying the word , or sentence , in a theatrical stage-whisper . |
| 21 | Schoop was , however , found guilty on the same charges because she gave further details to Hans Kopp when he telephoned her later the same day at his wife 's suggestion . |