Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In reply , the Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces gave me certain assurances . |
| 2 | There is more than a hint of classical Greece in the architecture , and the blue river seen through the sand-coloured columns gives it a Mediterranean freshness . |
| 3 | In Britain the social and intellectual origins of the early surveys gave them a particular emphasis summarisable as generality and factuality . |
| 4 | Now to the house itself , one of the early observers gives us a clue when mentioning the house he writes of the fine Elizabethan chimneys still standing , these I believe are those which collapsed in 1973 after having previously been lowered owing to their dangerous condition , on the collapse of these some fine timber framing was discovered in the older parts of the house showing considerable blackening , and Mrs Lingham informed me that vestiges of a gallery were discovered , and it was suggested that this part of the building may have been of the hall type . |
| 5 | The reader is also invited to ponder which of the two proofs gives him the greater personal satisfaction . |
| 6 | " The prosperity and technology of the developed countries give them the greater possibilities and the greater responsibility " . |
| 7 | I 'll take the little one home with me for a few days to give you a break . |
| 8 | A well aimed flower bomb soon put paid to the battling vegies , but only for a few seconds to give you time to pass , save the children and leave quickly . |
| 9 | A well aimed flower bomb soon put paid to the battling vegies , but only for a few seconds to give you time to pass , save the children and leave quickly . |
| 10 | The officials who sent them off from the ports with the loaded railway-wagons gave them rations for the number of days which the grain would in normal times take to its destination . |
| 11 | I do not enter upon the controversy as to what duty , if any , lay upon the medical advisers to give her that advice : that no explanation whatever was given is an accepted fact in the case . |
| 12 | In their almost dead-white , overpowdered faces , the mean little eyes looked red and sore in their crusted pits of mascara ; their great painted mouths with lipstick smearing over the fuzzy edges gave them a touchingly clownish look . |
| 13 | The F-Plan recipes , meal suggestions and charts on the following pages give you plenty of scope both for doing your own thing and eating your own thing , whether it is something as simple as beans on toast or a sandwich , or something considerably more adventurous . |