Example sentences of "gives [pers pn] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gives me his tired look . |
| 2 | All he could say was that it had to be called a great and profound change , and that it had happened , ‘ I have a feeling of being at home when I am with her , as though she gives me my own hearth , a feeling that our lives are interwoven . ’ |
| 3 | The moral of this tale is that ‘ the absence of ‘ real ’ qualities in Miss Churm and Oronte is precisely what gives them their essential value , so necessary to the work of art' . |
| 4 | For many of the students the course gives them their first stage experience and this is something which in itself produces a lot of concentrated work . |
| 5 | The male sex hormone testosterone er makes males bigger , er they 've bigger bones , more muscle and so on , this gives them their sporting prowess and this is why of course er you 've had all these better as a result . |
| 6 | To release the aroma and flavour of the coffee beans , they must be roasted , the process which also gives them their brown colouring . |
| 7 | Green plants have the marvellous capacity to harness the sun 's energy by means of their chlorophyll ( the substance which gives them their green colour ) to split the water molecule into its component elements , hydrogen and oxygen . |
| 8 | Here the storyteller gives them his full attention . |
| 9 | Ali asks them their name , writes , then gives them his autographed tracts . |
| 10 | Note that phrase ‘ not digested by man ’ , because it gives you your first clue to the slimming advantages of dietary fibre . |
| 11 | It 's the one that gives you your worst fears , is n't it , when you conduct it , and you go and nothing happens . |
| 12 | Ironically , its part-time nature gives it its greatest flexibility . |
| 13 | The relationships of Cuscuta are still uncertain ; on the basis of its flower structure , most taxonomists have placed it in the Convolvulaceae , the bindweed family , but Arthur Cronquist , in his Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants ( 1968 ) , gives it its own family , the Cuscutaceae . |
| 14 | He gives it its full title : ‘ the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts , who is enthroned on the cherubim ’ . |
| 15 | This Uaru clearly shows the marking that sometimes gives it its common name — Triangle Cichlid . |
| 16 | Here comparison is of the essence , and concentration of social anthropology on the differences and similarities between tribal and industrial cultures and institutions the world over gives it its unique character . |
| 17 | But the God who ‘ has called us for holiness … gives us his Holy Spirit ’ ( I Thess. 4 7,8 ) to enable us to fulfil his requirement . |
| 18 | Milton gives us his own account of why he wrote his divorce tracts by saying ‘ When the Bishops could no longer resist the multitude of their assailants , I had leisure to turn my thoughts to other subjects . |
| 19 | The ride across the lake gives us our best sledging for days , but the search for the ruin is hopeless , an endless toing and froing among trees and too-deep snow . |
| 20 | Pip 's name gives the image of a growing seed and this gives us our first idea of the plot . |
| 21 | Introductory sales have been made to Poland and Hungary which gives us our first opening into Eastern Europe . |
| 22 | I think that Lawrence gives us our first clue in the writing of dialogue : that we must listen and , having listened , ask ourselves how we feel about the voice we 've just heard . |
| 23 | Human beings also seek-meaning in their lives , a deeper spiritual understanding of their purpose which gives us our moral framework . |