Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] give [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having you family portrait done by a professional photographer gives you more than just a reminder of what your children looked like as they grew up , because a professional has all the best equipment necessary for a top-quality portrait . |
| 2 | ‘ I have the map that the old man gave me today , ’ said Giles . |
| 3 | The toilets and bathrooms and showers were at the end of the hall on the second floor , and from my window I had a splendid view of the cathedral , whose Gothic , Renaissance and baroque styles mingled perfectly in the dark-rose-and-amber stone to give it almost the appearance of some natural rock formation . |
| 4 | Erica was inevitable , I supposed , though I suspected Fiona had switched a few place cards before I reached there : a certain bland innocence gave her away . |
| 5 | We got out at Pendre and Graham and the chief engineer gave us very detailed guided tours showing the extent of operations . |
| 6 | ACTOR Bruce Willis , above , had a close shave at Hollywood 's Billboard Music awards but his severely cropped hair gave him plenty to laugh about . |
| 7 | Where the phrenologists went wrong was to be too arrogant about their pronouncements ; they were also wrong to suppose that the human skull gives us much information about the brain it was designed to protect . |
| 8 | Only the slight flexing of his left hand gave him away , this green man , nearing his winter death . |
| 9 | Is it that we help publishers to clear their excess stock to give them more space and money to print something else ? |
| 10 | ‘ International management gives me more time to myself but do n't think I 'm always away fishing . |
| 11 | teacher 's nose he or she will think it 's a brilliant laugh to give you so much detention that you 'll be lucky to leave the class in time to pick up your pension . |
| 12 | How , Mr Shamir embarrassingly asks , could any good Jew give them away ? |
| 13 | But once it was asked , his whole character and political stance gave him little alternative but to say ‘ yes ’ . |
| 14 | It may perhaps be objected that the distance may prevent the pupils of the Hospitals from attending the Lectures of the Veterinary Professor — I will first answer to that — that it would be dangerous for the progress of the Veterinary science to give them too free admission into the College — because it might give a disgust to the residing pupils from their application to the Veterinary Medicine and many of them would change their mind and apply themselves to the anatomy of the human body , thinking that it would be more honorable for them to cure the human species than Animals , this happened in France and the best Veterinary pupils are now Physicians and Surgeons to the human species — this prejudiced ideal would inculcate itself into the minds of young men , the more so as the Veterinary Science is still in its Infancy in this Country , and in an abject state , for this reason it would be equally dangerous to permit residing pupils to attend medical or anatomical lectures , of the human body , or to frequent Hospitals : Therefore a certain distance from the Town would be more useful than otherwise for the progress of the Veterinary Science . |
| 15 | A startled passer-by gave me as wide a berth as possible . |
| 16 | In Example 71 the two lower voices have ‘ clanging ’ motifs which evoke the atmosphere of the blacksmith 's forge : Here the ostinatos are unchanging pedal notes , but of course they could be recurring musical designs with changing harmonic potential to give them both a structural and an emotional purpose . |
| 17 | Banks and securities firms lag behind their rivals elsewhere in innovation , and have lost what competitive edge Japan 's relatively low interest rates and strong currency gave them abroad a few years ago . |
| 18 | This is deemed the choice posting for a fighter pilot , and the final chapter gives you about as much insight into flying one of these extraordinary aircraft as you are likely to achieve short of flying one yourself . |
| 19 | The extra 136 kilos in the stretched long-nose type gives it both much-needed freight and luggage space as well as making the aircraft easier to balance — always an interesting exercise in pre-flight planning for the pilots . |
| 20 | They had just overwhelmingly repulsed an unprovoked attack by a European power , and their past history gave them little cause to regard Europeans with favour . |