Example sentences of "[noun pl] give [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our new world industry correspondent , Richard Feast , casts a critical eye over recent motor show offerings , and concludes that Japan 's ‘ lean ’ production methods give them the opportunity to offer imaginative and stimulating new models |
| 2 | That , that 's open to the general public but where I stand you have to have a membership card to go in there now , and er you pay two pound before the season started and er local traders give you a discount and things erm it 's just one way of er segregating the supporters if you like , but there does n't seem to be so much trouble since they 've done this , but at the same time there does n't seem to be as much atmosphere |
| 3 | Goldfish ca n't turn their heads around but their slightly bulging eyes give them a wide field of vision . |
| 4 | His Etonian vowels give him a peculiar aural resemblance to Brian Johnston of Test Match Special ( imagine Johnners talking about what an axe can do to the flesh and you will have some idea of just how disorienting this is ) . |
| 5 | Wella 's high quality , creamy formulations give you a look you never dreamed you could achieve at home . |
| 6 | Sumptuous public rooms , marble floors and rugs give it a style of its own , and the restaurant opens onto a splendid waterfront terrace . |
| 7 | The subject of art has for too long been considered by many teachers as a frill , — there it is on the time-table , a compulsory subject ; some schools give it a period a week , some a double period , and some even more . |
| 8 | We 're all really close to each other , so if the lads give me a good track with some good bits that turn me on , I want to do well for them , I wan na get some lyrics out they 'd like . |
| 9 | kids give it a shove , pushed it on the street |
| 10 | Tennis rackets give you a lot of power but the most power you get from the body . |
| 11 | The finding of individual coins or of coin hoards can in some rather obvious respects give us the same sort of information , since the loss of a single coin or the deposit of a hoard is proof of some sort of direct or indirect contact between the place of mint and the place of deposit . |
| 12 | Generally speaking , it is better for farm animals to give them a lot more space and a lot more variety in their environment . |
| 13 | ‘ If they do n't drive , then they ask their husbands to give them a lift . |
| 14 | The Syrian foreign minister who , after meeting Douglas Hurd , evoked the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 in which the British and the French secretly carved up the Middle East between them ( later using the League of Nations to give them the so-called Mandates as a cover ) , was not making some arcane and irrelevant allusion . |
| 15 | Tolonen was getting to his feet , one of the guards giving him a hand . |
| 16 | Thankfully the recent revival has generated a new enthusiasm for the use of LM potencies giving us a feeling that , at last , their time has come . |
| 17 | And Irina , although her speech remained ironic , scolding , teasing , her eyes gave him a welcome which stirred his heart . |
| 18 | The red-and-white skull-cap above the monkey eyes gave him the air of a performing chimpanzee . |
| 19 | But even his eyes gave her no answer . |
| 20 | The pose of the bald egg-shaped heads , the jointed arms stiffly flexed in a parody of benediction , the staring eyes and curved arrow-like lips gave them the hieratic look of a couple of painted deities . |
| 21 | These early months gave him a brutally clear idea of what lay ahead . |
| 22 | The guards gave us a cigarette each and then left . |
| 23 | ‘ I found the last 20 minutes extremely hard but the lads gave me every encouragement and I am delighted , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Clare 's polite words gave her a moment of hope , which died , however , when she saw his face . |
| 25 | She knew it was ridiculous , but his words gave her a strange little tingle deep inside , and she was forced to smother the smile that kept trying to push its way to her lips . |
| 26 | His words gave her a slight shock as they sent tingles of pleasure through her , but she knew she must not allow them to go to her head , so she pushed them aside as she uttered a light laugh and said , ‘ Me — an angel ? |
| 27 | On a larger scale one might observe that his lifelong preoccupation with words gave him a kind of sensitivity to them , even if it was an unorthodox one ; and further that it is strange that a myth should so make its way if enshrined and embodied in words as inappropriate as critics have made out . |
| 28 | The parentheses gave her a sense of not existing , un-being perhaps was not too strong a word . |
| 29 | The soft lines of the sweatshirt that moulded the broad shoulders gave him an air of easy , masculine power , and the blue almost exactly matched the blue of his eyes . |
| 30 | He wore no tie , but the effect of his neat sleeked-back hair and thick-framed spectacles gave him the look of a rather stern and learned professor . |