Example sentences of "[be] [pron] gives [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been disinherited by his father he finds employment at a fashionable hairdresser 's which gives him materials for composing ‘ those brilliant efforts of genius , his fashionable novels ’ . |
| 2 | I mean , the side bits look nice heavier cos it 's it gives you that it goes up that way . |
| 3 | The real benefit is it gives you a reason to get out of bed in the morning . |
| 4 | That 's what gives them the power . |
| 5 | They 're always the ones that are a bit more boisterous , whereas the older ones you have to physically carry on in the shop floor , the students do n't , and that 's what gives them a bad name . |
| 6 | And that 's what gives you the pain right at the front . |
| 7 | I believe it is possible to propose an explanation for the intuitive feeling one gets that the -ing form would be somewhat inappropriate here : the author is describing a person who is groping for anything which will reassure her before she meets her angry father and the mere fact that she is able to perceive objects which are familiar to her — when she feels so disoriented that she can take nothing for granted — is what gives her the sense that she is neither shirking nor lying . |
| 8 | Difficult modes of speech may be coined to convey difficult themes , but the private nature of the artist 's invention is what gives it its power . |
| 9 | The style of a room is what gives it its own particular character . |