Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] give of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some ways it is an improvement over yet older versions , sions , but I hope you realise that the information it encapsulates is much vaguer and less certain than the description I gave of what single cells can do . |
| 2 | The picture we give of them is still that of Posidonius . |
| 3 | I have often thought , since writing it , how poor a picture it gave of the events and dynamic forces here . |
| 4 | Typical of his account is the picture he gives of the festival held at the great Sufi shrine of the Qadam Sharif , which sheltered the supposed Footprint of the Holy Prophet . |
| 5 | You really are not so handsome as you promised to be ; and I have long wished , by conversation like this , to do away what mischief the flattering character I gave of you may expose you to . |
| 6 | This sudden chain smoking was the only sign she gave of emotion . |
| 7 | For George Eliot , the charm of similar objects inheres in the evidence they give of use : |
| 8 | His ring sparkled on her finger , lit by the flames of a fire in the grate ; Paul had the fancy that she turned her fingers deliberately , enjoying the ring 's brilliance and the evidence it gave of prosperity and caste . |
| 9 | I picked it up and checked on what news it gave of the train . |
| 10 | The significance of the Ruiz case and its aftermath for any analysis of the significance of the work of John Howard lies within the example it gives of a certain approach to penal reform . |
| 11 | From our union we gave of ourselves in what way we could to those who sought or needed our support . |
| 12 | But what is most striking about both books is the sense they give of how desolate and enclosed an adolescence could be , at opposite ends of the society . |
| 13 | And the description he gave of the girl was a perfect portrait of Sandy . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ The image you give ’ , Fraser tells Ilse , meaning the image she gives of himself as a boy , ‘ is one of dependency , extreme docility . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The residential workers found him evasive in the account he gave of his actions and feelings . |
| 18 | The account he gave of it was detailed , detached and distinctly unenthusiastic . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She wore glasses with brown-winged frames that suited her pointed face and enhanced the impression she gave of being about to become airborne . |