Example sentences of "[noun] but [pron] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now correlation , in a similar way , measures something similar to association but it gives you a bit more detail . |
| 2 | ‘ We 're so sorry about what happened to poor old Goosie Lucy but she gave us no choice . |
| 3 | Gwynn Jones received many other honours but none gave him greater pleasure than the publication of a selection of his poems , Detholiad o Ganiadau , by the Gregynog Press in 1926 , and the de luxe edition , issued in 1932–7 by Hughes & Son , Wrexham , of six volumes of selected poems and essays . |
| 4 | This was in connection with my RNR Sea Cadet duties but it gave me much more confidence on the navigational side of cutter service . |
| 5 | I intended to ask the Baronessa Dulcibene why she had come to pay her last respects to this mysterious Englishman but she gave me a glassy look of non-recognition and moved rapidly away with her companion . |
| 6 | No , that is from the computer but he gave it to me because he uses the monitor . |
| 7 | We never sold anything of course but it gave me a sort of status plus it was a very interesting time to be around the art world . |
| 8 | He claimed the housing market was showing signs of revival but he gave it a prod anyway by raising the threshold on stamp duty from £30,000 to £60,000 , move that will help mainly first-time buyers . |
| 9 | On paper on form hereford had no chance but they gave it everything and took an early lead with a try from Ivan Powell … |
| 10 | Maybe it was obvious to most people but he gave me recharged confidence in the project . |
| 11 | Police were told and tailed Newall but he gave them the slip and fled from Britain on a yacht he inherited from his parents , a court in Gibraltar heard . |
| 12 | He 's short of games but he gives us something different . ’ |
| 13 | he never made any thing else in his image , but he made you to be created in his image and with that there 's that status , were not just a more intelligent animal , were not just something else that God made even , but were that , that peak of his creative genius , the peak of it , the very pinnacle of it , not because of what we are , but because of the image , the pattern that he was using , his own self , created us in his image , so that gave us status but it gives us responsibility . |
| 14 | This is probably nowhere near as long as your list but it gives you some idea of how much detail is needed in recording items . |
| 15 | was going to say check it in the book but I gave you wrong one . |
| 16 | ‘ We rang your own number but they gave us this one … |