Example sentences of "give [pers pn] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The newcomer listened in his turn to the description Mrs Zamzam had given me of the events that led her to run away from Um Al-Farajh , occasionally nodding agreement or interrupting to correct her account . |
| 2 | … the privilege which God has given me of being a servant of Christ Jesus … |
| 3 | Because er , he he he had given them of of how he had become a Christian , he had become a minister of Jesus Christ and so on , he says , for this reason I suffer these things , but I am not ashamed , for I know whom I have believed . |
| 4 | May God give you of the dew of heaven , |
| 5 | If the foot Melanie could you give us of the Jenny in the plaster room ? |
| 6 | The best thing to get richer is like , going round car boot sales , like my mum , she 's so funny , dad said she 's a different woman , she 's just like , cos when Phil and I erm , were engaged , we were trying to save up money , so we , oh and like we 'd sell off all our old stuff , so just give me of money , and then , we got these and my mum was pricing everything up , and she 's going , if someone asks for a discount , do n't , just do n't give it to them , she said , everyone 's going round pricing everything up and erm , when they come to you , they just , they just want things for nothing . |
| 7 | And yeah another one connected to this whole lifestyle , aspirational argument the image the brochures give us of a couple si sitting on a terrace with , you know , you can almost hear the music in the background , the sun setting over the sea . |
| 8 | on earth , to give us of God 's love . |
| 9 | Paradise Lost , like Colmris is a poem with a thesis , but the counter position of the thesis is so powerful that the poem , both these poems , have to be described as the enactment of a conflict , rather than the giving us of the result . |
| 10 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |
| 11 | The van Meers brought some wine which they said was Australian and the Keiths enjoyed the reminder it gave them of meals on the Mataura . |
| 12 | But far more valuable was the chance it gave him of widening his sphere of influence . |
| 13 | But far more valuable was the chance it gave him of widening his sphere of influence . |
| 14 | It is in this sense that Derrida argues that Husserl 's Origin of Geometry sets up ‘ the possibility of history as the possibility of language ’ whereby ‘ difference would be transcendental ’ : writing , in the general significance which Derrida gives it of a differential marking , must be the condition of any historicity . |
| 15 | He gives us of himself , to be like him . |
| 16 | Or is it the picture God has given us of himself ? |