Example sentences of "[pers pn] gives the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | She gives the orders and the servants defer to her . |
| 4 | Someone here once commented that she gives the impression she always seems to know best . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She gives the following example : |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I told her on , on a Friday when she gives the first . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The jelly which separates them gives the organism a degree of rigidity needed to withstand the buffeting of the sea . |
| 11 | If he gives the go-ahead , the auction plan would be submitted to industry and other users for comment before any necessary legislation was considered . |
| 12 | These points are well illustrated in John Warton 's narration of his talk with a woman in the last stages of consumption , to whom he gives the name ‘ Mary Barton ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ He gives the orchestra very strong signals from very subtle impulses . ’ |
| 14 | He may be a grandfather who has survived heart surgery and likes nothing better than spending time with his family but , like a retired gunslinger who can only be pushed so far , he gives the impression of still being capable of strapping on a Colt 45 and facing up to a gaggle of tobacco-stained desperadoes . |
| 15 | He gives the obvious explanation that Shakespeare has read Ovid on Salmacis , and spices it with the assurance that Adonis stands for the Earl of Southampton , whom he keeps calling Wriothesley . |
| 16 | ‘ He gives the whole defence confidence , ’ said Mr Ferguson . |
| 17 | It may be pure conjecture but he gives the impression that he knows the words to The Sash and could sing them backwards , and it was hardly surprising when football fans nicknamed him ‘ Agent Orange ’ . |
| 18 | It is Morland Beddoes who is right , and he gives the answer to those who have called Elizabeth 's work ‘ trivial ’ ; it is life . |
| 19 | And he gives the Cud PO box as an address . |
| 20 | In fact he took neither course ; in his own account — in The Prelude — he gives the impression of a drifter , ‘ detached from academic cares ’ , and he tells us that he ‘ did not love … our scholastic studies ’ . |
| 21 | He gives the example : |
| 22 | As golf is another favourite Hastings sport and an ideal means of relaxation it probably does n't help his back problem that he gives the ball such a lick as to threaten to land it in the next kingdom ! |
| 23 | The man who ladles the food into the steel bowl on the tray can not see the face of the man to whom he gives the food . |
| 24 | Here we offer you a foretaste of his clarity of thought and witty expression as well as the exhilarating certainty he gives the reader of the importance of art and reflection |
| 25 | He gives the example of Johnny Saxon who , three years after winning the world welterweight title , was charged with burglary and eventually institutionalized at New Jersey State Mental Hospital : ‘ Boxing does not leave all its scars on a fighter 's face ’ ( 1973 , p.325 ) . |
| 26 | If we ask who is to gauge that ( presumably not God ) , he gives the unhelpful and not a little pompous reply that it is ‘ known with clarity and precision only by some few thinking men in every nation and every age ’ ( p. 64 ) . |
| 27 | A smoothly manipulative svengali- ish figure when it comes to business , he gives the ‘ Karl treatment ’ to new models and muses , as well as to fashion labels , making us aware of the possibilities only he has seen beneath the exterior . |
| 28 | And he gives the game away by specifying that the ritual occurred on the day immediately preceding Jesus 's triumphal entry into Jerusalem . |
| 29 | We are all habituated to the synthetic magic of the cinema whereby , to quote from Robert Cumming 's amusing meditation on the differences between still photography and film : " An actor on location in Washington , D.C. , might be filmed rounding the corner of Connecticut Avenue , striding up the walk , and on reaching the door , he gives the knob a turn , entering . |
| 30 | He encourages ; he gives the child confidence in himself . |