Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] gives [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matt put in , ‘ Departing guests pay their accounts at the office , where she gives them a receipt , and Ling takes his list of commodities to her — things to be ordered for the kitchen , you understand . ’ |
| 2 | The huge advantage of fame is that it gives me , for no proper reason , access to people that I would never otherwise have . |
| 3 | I 've told you that it gives me a terrific edge in any sale where Kemp 's a bidder . |
| 4 | The only trouble is that it gives me an American accent . |
| 5 | can I say that it gives me particular pleasure to introduce Steven not least , because Steven Hughes is one of our colleagues in parliament who does a fantastic job for the trade union movement . |
| 6 | Some people prefer to work their male ferret on a line , saying that it gives them control over its movements . |
| 7 | This dietician saying that the architect w wants to know all about endoscop what it involves , so that it gives him an idea as to what is about . |
| 8 | What she most relishes about no longer having to worry about where the money to pay the rates is coming from is that it gives her the freedom to be creative . |
| 9 | The presence of maids obviates any need for husbands to undertake traditionally female tasks and so , while a woman following her career does challenge a husband 's machismo in the sense that it gives her some independence ( both economically and socially ) , it does not do so in the sense of changing his role in the home . |
| 10 | In that it gives us ‘ knowledge ’ , as opposed to mere ‘ belief ’ or ‘ faith ’ , of course it has ; but Locke also means that revelation must be answerable to reason . |
| 11 | ( 1 ) If seeing something is like eating it with the eye , so that it gives us sensations in our eyes as eating manna gives us ‘ sensations of sickness , and sometimes of acute pains or gripings ’ in our stomachs , then what physically enters the eye comes to have an importance not only for understanding the physical mechanism of visual perception , but also for understand the concept of visual perception . |
| 12 | The definition is adopted , of course , not merely for the reason that it gives us a further explanation of the difference between causal items and their effects . |
| 13 | A realization that it gives us rights that we do n't have as well as some sharing , some loss . |
| 14 | If we just win freedom that freedom will become very empty if we 're not able to use the power that it gives us to create justice and peace in the region . |
| 15 | Do n't forget that it gives us another chance to make progress in Europe this season ; success for Linfield and of course Crusaders may yet lift us away from the bottom of the ladder and give us a chance of avoiding those detested preliminary rounds . |
| 16 | If you are stuck in a boring job , concentrate on the fact that it is providing money for your needs and your pleasures and that it gives you a measure of independence . |
| 17 | Try a recording in which the camera looks at the class the whole time so that it gives you the teacher's-eye view . |
| 18 | Your Lordship er will see from paragraph three eleven that what the letter er says is as we discussed on the telephone , the advantage of the landlord 's objection is that it gives you time to put your finances in order , if the licence was forthcoming now you would be obliged to complete the transaction which at this stage you are unable to do . |
| 19 | The buzzword among those who follow the routine is that it gives you ‘ energy for life . ’ |
| 20 | alright and if you look at the diagram on page thirteen and you look at the little arrow diagram you 'll see that it gives it quite nice and clearly there is that alright ? |
| 21 | The Roman Emperors were much more slippery than anyone gives them credit for . |
| 22 | However , as Clementina Black pointed out at the end of her inquiry into married women 's work for the Women 's Industrial Council , some women worked when the family income was already adequate , because they prized their independence : ‘ A shilling of your own is worth two that he gives you ’ . |
| 23 | To mark his disapproval of my doing so he gives me the wrong ticket and some change , of which the amount , as far as I can see , bears no relation to any previous transaction between us . |
| 24 | If we all stick together and no-one gives them anything , they 'll soon be starving hungry themselves . |
| 25 | I notice if someone gives me full cream like in cereal and I just think , I wo n't eat . |
| 26 | So are you happy with that , that you can if someone gives you someone says Draw er a figure , er a regular polygon with twelve sides , you kn you know how to construct one ? |
| 27 | If someone gives you a polygon to draw |
| 28 | So , if someone gives you like something like this say , erm ten to the minus eight , and you want to know I mean you keep seeing this . |
| 29 | But if you imagine when you were about this high and someone gives you a ball to kick and you you fall over and you , Right I 'm not trying that again . |
| 30 | If you 're working at erm how far is it from here to New York and someone gives you an answer like this like What is it ? |