Example sentences of "[noun pl] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Generally speaking , it is better for farm animals to give them a lot more space and a lot more variety in their environment . |
| 32 | ‘ If they do n't drive , then they ask their husbands to give them a lift . |
| 33 | In a friendly atmosphere look around at leisure and allow our experienced designers to give you advice and original ideas . |
| 34 | Her eyes darted back to his and she studied him before parting her lips to give him his answer . |
| 35 | And as students of the star signs will verify , the cuspate divisions help explain his ability to carve the characters he plays into different personality fragments to give them added depth . |
| 36 | There simply was n't enough stock in the shops to give them any real choice . |
| 37 | And delivered as an integral part of the application are two utilities to give us as much flexibility in achieving that goal as possible . |
| 38 | The Syrian foreign minister who , after meeting Douglas Hurd , evoked the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 in which the British and the French secretly carved up the Middle East between them ( later using the League of Nations to give them the so-called Mandates as a cover ) , was not making some arcane and irrelevant allusion . |
| 39 | Oddly , if the P M risks giving him one in the next reshuffle , it might be a sign that his own confidence is returning . |
| 40 | Bangkok is well supplied with ‘ shooting galleries ’ where pushers go down lines of addicts giving them all a fix with the same needle . |
| 41 | Tolonen was getting to his feet , one of the guards giving him a hand . |
| 42 | He may also have obtained from Popes Leo III and Paschal I privileges giving him control of all the monasteries he had acquired . |
| 43 | Thankfully the recent revival has generated a new enthusiasm for the use of LM potencies giving us a feeling that , at last , their time has come . |
| 44 | And Irina , although her speech remained ironic , scolding , teasing , her eyes gave him a welcome which stirred his heart . |
| 45 | Nevertheless , for all that he 'd been around there was definitely something that was attractive and appealing about him ; only his eyes gave him away , because they could turn cold and introspective while those around him were whooping it up . |
| 46 | The red-and-white skull-cap above the monkey eyes gave him the air of a performing chimpanzee . |
| 47 | Her skin was a pale olive colour but absolutely clear and her magnificent eyes gave her face all the definition it needed . |
| 48 | But even his eyes gave her no answer . |
| 49 | The pose of the bald egg-shaped heads , the jointed arms stiffly flexed in a parody of benediction , the staring eyes and curved arrow-like lips gave them the hieratic look of a couple of painted deities . |
| 50 | These early months gave him a brutally clear idea of what lay ahead . |
| 51 | The guards gave us a cigarette each and then left . |
| 52 | We were taken into a small chapel and some Spanish border guards gave us hot coffee and bread . |
| 53 | Two avoidable goals gave them valid concern . |
| 54 | ‘ I found the last 20 minutes extremely hard but the lads gave me every encouragement and I am delighted , ’ he said . |
| 55 | Clare 's polite words gave her a moment of hope , which died , however , when she saw his face . |
| 56 | She knew it was ridiculous , but his words gave her a strange little tingle deep inside , and she was forced to smother the smile that kept trying to push its way to her lips . |
| 57 | His words gave her a slight shock as they sent tingles of pleasure through her , but she knew she must not allow them to go to her head , so she pushed them aside as she uttered a light laugh and said , ‘ Me — an angel ? |
| 58 | On a larger scale one might observe that his lifelong preoccupation with words gave him a kind of sensitivity to them , even if it was an unorthodox one ; and further that it is strange that a myth should so make its way if enshrined and embodied in words as inappropriate as critics have made out . |
| 59 | The parentheses gave her a sense of not existing , un-being perhaps was not too strong a word . |
| 60 | The soft lines of the sweatshirt that moulded the broad shoulders gave him an air of easy , masculine power , and the blue almost exactly matched the blue of his eyes . |