Example sentences of "gives [pers pn] [art] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | send the photograph and that gives me an idea whether it 's worth going to look at it at all . |
| 2 | This is how my mind works : If I leave at 10.30 that gives me an hour before I go to sleep to stuff myself . |
| 3 | Er which gives them the clues as to where they 've got to go . |
| 4 | It gives you a stiffy if you 're a chap . |
| 5 | ( To avoid getting bogged down with routine reporting at the expense of his DIA mission , he had telexed Ms Starnes from Zurich to say he had been denied entry , a diplomatic untruth that still gives him a twinge when he thinks of it . ) |
| 6 | Among Max 's other hobbies are going for long walks , travelling in the car and sitting on the fax machine , which always gives him a surprise when it starts working . |
| 7 | This dietician saying that the architect w wants to know all about endoscop what it involves , so that it gives him an idea as to what is about . |
| 8 | This in turn gives us a clue as to whether the ‘ feelgood ’ aura from rising house prices is likely to be reversed quickly . |
| 9 | Perhaps that last phrase gives us a clue as to why fundamentalism holds on so tenaciously to life . |
| 10 | Now to the house itself , one of the early observers gives us a clue when mentioning the house he writes of the fine Elizabethan chimneys still standing , these I believe are those which collapsed in 1973 after having previously been lowered owing to their dangerous condition , on the collapse of these some fine timber framing was discovered in the older parts of the house showing considerable blackening , and Mrs Lingham informed me that vestiges of a gallery were discovered , and it was suggested that this part of the building may have been of the hall type . |
| 11 | And here we learn something new , for though the sculptor has chosen to leave the left hand exposed he gives us an indication as to how shrouds were placed once the body had been encoffined : the right sleeve has been pulled down over its hands and gently tucked under the fingers . |