Example sentences of "account [pers pn] give [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tho' I highly respect Mrs. Leapor 's character from the account you give of it , yet as she was absolutely unknown to myself , and I am but little acquainted even with her writings , I am upon this account as well as many others , entirely unfit for such an undertaking as you propose . |
| 2 | Beesley watched the action with his daughter on several successive evenings , and what follows is based upon the account she gave to me . |
| 3 | Intuitively , it would seem desirable that whatever account we give for the role of an expression like in other words in a phrasal apposition like [ 10 ] we give the same account for its role in a reformulation involving complete sentences , for example [ 9 ] . |
| 4 | They found that young mothers seemed to give health visitors a more idealized version of how they treated their babies than the account they gave to Elizabeth Newson , who was not seen to have any authority over them . |
| 5 | If you believe the Thames Valley CID — not the account they gave at the inquest , when the events were still fresh in everyone 's minds , but the one they came up with in the months following my return to this country — then having lured Dennis on to the river and dosed him with draughts of spiked bubbly , Karen and I went ‘ One , two , three ’ and heaved him overboard . |
| 6 | Just as his theoretical awareness of the importance of sense-experience as a basis for science went along with an increasing interest in practical , experimental investigation of the world , so his theoretical advocacy of Epicurean atomism went along with his actual use of it in his own work ; for example , in an account he gave of various optical phenomena produced by the sun . |
| 7 | The residential workers found him evasive in the account he gave of his actions and feelings . |
| 8 | The account he gave of it was detailed , detached and distinctly unenthusiastic . |
| 9 | No official minutes survive of Macmillan 's conference with 5 Corps at Klagenfurt on 13 May and therefore our main evidence for what was discussed is the account he gave in his diary , written shortly afterwards . |
| 10 | He simulates the picaresque ingenuousness of the alien , pretending to learn English from the children in order to gain their confidence , and gradually modifying the historical account he gives of himself to meet peoples ' changing conception of him . |