Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] [conj] give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time they are mature , hedgehogs can have several thousand of the modified hairs that give them their prickly appearance and an ideal form of defence against attackers . |
| 2 | They do some activities downstairs — they take some of the old ladies and give them bits of painting and that sort of thing , but nothing I 'm interested in . |
| 3 | He tore out the early pages and gave me the rest of it and we use it now for our visitors ' signatures . ‘ |
| 4 | Leicester solved it just in time and produced a town that spilled widely across the surrounding fields and gave its working class bigger and better houses , and wider streets , than almost anywhere else in industrial England . |
| 5 | To make Christmas a truly memorable occasion for you and your guests , I 've taken some of the traditional dishes and given them an exciting twist . |
| 6 | In the meditative life , we exchange the worldly things that give us delight for the full commitment of loving God above all . |
| 7 | A fully secularized society was a contradiction in terms , for there could be no society that would not feel the need to uphold the collective sentiments that gave it its unity and individuality . |
| 8 | GHI comment : The only sets that gave us a really good picture on the loop aerial were Philips and Sony . |
| 9 | Then , since the fisherman did not come home , every morning she took his supper to the cliff-side and fed it to the wild snakes ; every noon she took the hempen nets and gave them to the sea-birds to build their nests . |
| 10 | All of the walking species had the widely-splayed legs that gave them a slow and lumbering gait , but , in the absence of more streamlined animals , they prospered . |
| 11 | When she was rescued by the local authorities and given her present welfare flat , she asked that her address be kept a secret . |