Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [pron] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also praised ‘ his labours and inventions in tin matters ’ , a reflection of the mines which gave Godolphin a large part of his wealth and influence in his county . |
| 2 | He grew large and plump and round-cheeked , but he was without kittenish ways as if his sad experience had robbed him prematurely of his youth , yet when he sat on Lyn 's lap in the evenings he gave himself up to a drowsy and contented purring . |
| 3 | Their degree of preference for one party Over others had an important influence upon the usefulness-ratings they gave the media for helping them decide how to Vote ( those with clear preferences found the media less useful for that purpose ) but had little or no influence on other aspects of usefulness-ratings . |
| 4 | But there is some instability in the accounts he gives of dark professions of faith , in his acerbities and fatalities . |
| 5 | More subtly and widely , they can be led to waste effort in imitating traits which had a point in the situations which gave rise to them , but become empty and even harmful when transplanted . |
| 6 | The rewards for those working in BP come in the quality of the opportunities it gives us for the future . |
| 7 | And how can you bring this positive word into the examples you gave as answers to question three ? |
| 8 | Although every moment of the lovers ' experience is drenched in imagery , there is still a fine feeling of reality about the characters which gives them bone and muscle . |
| 9 | On paper , Olympia & York still looked like a good thing to the institutions who gave their money . |
| 10 | ‘ Archaos ’ was n't a flop in relation to the performances they gave . |
| 11 | Even under Edward 's guidance it proved difficult to feel my way into the texts he gave me to read . |
| 12 | The two women putting finishing touches to the buffet supper turned as one , surprise in the smiles they gave the slender figure standing alone in the doorway . |
| 13 | Some features of that world are nowadays entirely inscrutable — notably , what it was in Frederic Lowndes 's self-effacing position on The Times which gave him and his wife access to a society of international aristocracy and even royalty , and to the inner circles of the cabinet , as well as the society of novelists and playwrights . |