Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She looked so like my daughter did at her age , and the pleasure she gave me compensated for the lack of time I had with her mother when she was a child . |
| 32 | They seemed to be doing fine , but just to be on the safe side we gave them another four days to adapt . |
| 33 | From the quick glance he gave her she saw that had surprised him . |
| 34 | In today 's programme he gives us an exclusive interview , the first since his heart attack four months ago . |
| 35 | Keeping that in mind it gives you somewhere else to go musically , and those themes tend to be a little more prominent from an adult point of view . |
| 36 | Look , here is the drawing he gave me : see how fine it is , how accurate , how personal … |
| 37 | In return for Jos 's labour he gave him bed and board . ’ |
| 38 | The only sign he ever gave that anything was amiss in his family was the number of times he got out his thumbnail-sized pipe for the comfort of the single puff it gave him . |
| 39 | He enjoyed her body , though he would n't allow himself to dwell on the pleasure it gave him , and being away from her , even for one day , was a kind of purgatory . |
| 40 | It was also the terrible pleasure it gave her when he touched her . |
| 41 | ‘ Whatever pleasure it gives you can not match the pleasure it gave me to buy this trinket for you . ’ |
| 42 | I told him how much pleasure it gave me to think of him in charge of the school next year . |
| 43 | ‘ I suppose a young man like you would n't understand what pleasure it gives me to remove tight shoes ? ’ |
| 44 | ‘ Whatever pleasure it gives you can not match the pleasure it gave me to buy this trinket for you . ’ |
| 45 | Sometimes I we always felt that you 'd like to play against the wind it gives you just that |
| 46 | cylinders of butter wrapped in butter-muslin which gives them a ‘ cloudy ’ appearance . |
| 47 | With great trepidation and much backsliding the tsar eventually granted the serfs a sort of freedom , but if their interests had been dear to his heart he could have committed himself earlier and pressed harder for a settlement which gave them an economically viable future . |
| 48 | Höfner were wont to wax lyrical about the new ‘ Slendaneck ’ feature of this guitar which gave you ‘ the thinnest neck ever , with really fast playing action ’ . |
| 49 | They preferred their little aerosols of teargas which gave them a false sense of security . |
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| 51 | The second feature of George Stephen 's narrative which gave it a markedly ideological cast was its distancing of the movement from the kind of radicalism and militant nonconformity of the 1830s and 1840s many of his readers associated with antislavery . |
| 52 | The occupational pathology of the eighteenth century is strikingly revealed in a litany which gives us grinder 's asthma , grinder 's rot , mason 's disease , miner 's phthisis , stone worker 's lung and potter 's rot , among others , for dust-caused lung diseases , as well as occupational bursitis in such varying forms as bricklayer 's elbow , weaver 's bottom , housemaid 's knee , hod carrier 's shoulder and tailor 's ankle . |
| 53 | It is currently 35 degrees Fahrenheit out and the wind is blowing up the canyon at 87 mph hour which gives us a wind chill factor of — just a moment while I look at the chart — says ‘ Should not be skiing ’ which is good because we are n't . |
| 54 | Alec Stewart 's charge has a stiffer task here , but is getting 6lbs from the favourite which gives her a sporting chance of stopping Daru 's unbeaten run of four victories . |
| 55 | Moreover attempts to relate language classes to other strands systematically have not always been popular , many students preferring a language course which gives them an insight into cultural trends , with texts drawn from recent magazines , broadcasts , etc . |
| 56 | But it is a part which gives me so much pain that sometimes I ca n't bear it — ca n't bear it at all . ’ |
| 57 | In many cases they are now wider in scope than the function which gave them birth ; in others they are at least on a par with the sales function . |
| 58 | True , he was an All-State footballer which gave him some excitement and fun ; but he always stayed in Neptune with Lorraine and with Mud . |
| 59 | is that the milky bar I gave him ? |
| 60 | ‘ And what you said this morning … about that manuscript I gave you . |