Example sentences of "[adj] and [pron] gives " in BNC.
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| 1 | We want satisfaction , we want completeness in life , and so we try this and it gives it for a moment , but when it 's finished we 've got ta try something else . |
| 2 | But if you imagine when you were about this high and someone gives you a ball to kick and you you fall over and you , Right I 'm not trying that again . |
| 3 | I find it unpleasant and it gives me an allergy so I 'd rather you did n't from my point of view . |
| 4 | from the six and it gives you four but then you give the sign of a larger |
| 5 | It is black and gleaming and it gives his wife Meriel the willies . |
| 6 | He had to ring up that and it gives you all the phone numbers of all the police stations in Bristol . |
| 7 | Once he is distracted , I push on hard and he gives up the game . |
| 8 | Changes in media personnel are fairly frequent and nothing gives a worse impression of the PR executive the continual receipt of material with a predecessor 's name or even their predecessor 's predecessor 's name on it . |
| 9 | Rhyme , measure , and the turning of verses , which is indispensable and which gives them so much vigour , are analogous to the hidden symmetry , to the equilibrium at once wise and inspired , which governs the meeting or separation of lines and spaces , the echoes of color , etc. ’ poetic painting was Delacroix 's preference , but ‘ David 's picture of Leonidas at Thermopolae is masculine and vigorous prose , I admit ’ . |
| 10 | It is very continental and it gives a great feel to the place . |
| 11 | you know and she , you know you do n't have to pay much this sort of heating 's in or something like that so she 's probably got loads of spare money like you , which is good because she 's on her own and it gives her more , you know |
| 12 | ‘ I 've never been quite sure what the attraction is except that the job is n't boring and it gives me a private life . ’ |