Example sentences of "[pers pn] gives [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harriet 's explaining that she gives a service , something about helping people realize their dreams . |
| 2 | In a crowded restaurant she gives a little scream at the plate which some overworked waitress has set before her and says , ‘ Oh , that 's far , far too much ! |
| 3 | She gives a wistful version of the title song , but her Irma is more EastEnders than Montmatre . |
| 4 | She gives a much better exchange rate and gets forty per cent more lira for every pound , deutschmark or dollar she takes . |
| 5 | ‘ She gives a quick squirt so I can smell it , then finds a nice , easy chair till she hears me coming . ’ |
| 6 | She traces the roots back in time ; she covers some of the more obvious ground ( with chapters on Happy Mondays , the Stone Roses etc ) ; she rights some wrongs ; she flirts with some myths ; she gives a platform to some of the previously unsung instigators ; she dumps a few reputations ; and , though imperfect , it 's as reliable a guide to current Manchester music as you are likely to get . |
| 7 | Freya 's confusion and bewilderment are very apparent in this letter , and she gives a sense of having ‘ fallen into ’ anorexia , in a strikingly different way to Alison ( in the last chapter ) , who has a much more determined , almost deliberate approach . |
| 8 | In her column , which she used almost as a diary , she gives a charming account of the early encounters . |
| 9 | When a mother cat wants her kittens to come near to her or to follow her , she gives a soft little CHIRRUPING noise . |
| 10 | And she gives a complex , psychoanalytically-influenced account of her male identification and its effects : ‘ I had … contributed towards making an object of myself and other women . |
| 11 | She gives a wide variety of definitions : ‘ feeble-minded ’ , ‘ educable defective ’ , ‘ educationally sub-normal ’ , ‘ those having moderate learning difficulties ’ , ‘ dull and backward ’ , ‘ remedial ’ , and ‘ maladjusted and disruptive ’ . |
| 12 | Instead , now she gives a visual expression to Enya 's achingly lonely melodies , songs of prayers , dreams and longings echoing a child 's spiritual innocence . |
| 13 | 18 Then , she gives a small qUeeEEP ? . 19 Generally , Birdie looks at me more with her right eye than her left . |
| 14 | She gives a brief , cut-off little cry like a chirp as she comes , and sinks her teeth into my shoulder . |
| 15 | She gives a gentler , lesser sigh . |
| 16 | Telling a tale … professional storyteller Liz Weir is surrounded by enthralled pupils of St John 's School , Bebington , as she gives a demonstration of her skills . |
| 17 | Says a studio executive , ‘ Breathless was added for the dramatic story line she gives the film but she is faithful in style and tone to the original . ’ |
| 18 | In ‘ Mira 's Will ’ , she gives the peculiar instruction : ‘ Six comick Poets may the Corse surround , / And all Free-holders , if they can be found … |
| 19 | She gives the orders and the servants defer to her . |
| 20 | Someone here once commented that she gives the impression she always seems to know best . |
| 21 | The blurb for her latest book describes her as ‘ one of Britain 's best-loved art critics ’ , but — sadly and symptomatically — she gives the impression that the Sacred grows on trees . |
| 22 | She gives the following example : |
| 23 | She gives the Sale , Wharfe and Nidd as examples of rivers which will be affected if the case is lost on appeal to the House of Lords . |
| 24 | I told her on , on a Friday when she gives the first . |
| 25 | If there are two of you lifting/lowering someone , make sure that you work together and that one of you gives the command ‘ 1-2-3 lift ’ , for example . |
| 26 | The satirical phrase used to embarrass the ‘ Action Men ’ is that they have the ‘ John Wayne syndrome ’ ; the fact it is Wayne rather than Rambo who is used to ridicule them gives a clue that it tends to be the older members of the force who use the term to describe the exuberant younger policemen . |
| 27 | The jelly which separates them gives the organism a degree of rigidity needed to withstand the buffeting of the sea . |
| 28 | Gale underrates what Charles did scientifically ; he also underrates the opposition — he gives no references , for example , to who held the theory of multiple creation , nor to why . |
| 29 | The final stage in the process was to make sure that the box provided was filled to half-way with plaster of Paris to absorb moisture , though he gives no guidelines as to how deep such a box should be ; ‘ after this , the cover and two windows were put down ’ . |
| 30 | He gives no indications on that score . ’ |