Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] give [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember the concert performances you gave in Berlin in December 1977 . |
| 2 | Little by little , however , the force of this long glen beneath the austere greyness of the Five Sisters touched Johnson , and he moved his position from that of first considering the political role of such remoteness , and the opportunities it gave for military strategies and subsequent escapes — Glenshiel had been the scene of a battle fifty-four years earlier in which local Highlanders unsuccessfully reinforced a Spanish invasion force — to being lulled by the sight of so many waters , brooks , burns , and silver rivulets , ‘ which commonly ran with a clear shallow stream over a hard pebbly bottom ’ . |
| 3 | Looking back over some lectures I gave in the early 1980s , I note that the division between the schools which could raise money and those which could not was even then causing me concern . |
| 4 | Davis Cup nerves certainly got to them as they started their defence of a trophy they had only just won back for the first time since 1932 but full marks to the British challengers who gave of their best in terms of commitment and attitude . |
| 5 | Such inverted commas are often called SCARE QUOTES , and are used especially in philosophically-inspired criticism which is sceptical about the customary senses we give to words . |
| 6 | More importantly , from a very early age he assisted his father in his optical workshop , and also in the courses of lecture-demonstrations he gave in the recently established Liverpool Mechanics ' Institution . |
| 7 | What is most remarkable about the talks and lectures he gave on this trip is the extent to which America now revived in him the memories of his childhood . |
| 8 | The many lectures he gave throughout his life were delivered , noteless , in an attractive broken English that spellbound his audiences . |
| 9 | It was the fifth of those lectures he gave from 1769 to 1790 , known as his fifteen discourses . |
| 10 | It was written and circulated privately by Evelyn Underhill for the retreats she gave at Pleshey and elsewhere . |
| 11 | Her conscious understanding of how she was using language is clear from the explanations she gives for the expressions she uses in the poem : ( on line 2 ) " She lived outside in the open , so the air was like her house " ; ( on line 5 " the streets were like a giant shop where she could pick and choose out of bins and gutters " ; ( on line 8 ) " this means she was close to nature and she felt like the yew was her mother " . |
| 12 | It is ironic , I think , that the release which out of the compassion of our hearts we give to old , sick animals , we deny to old , sick human beings . |
| 13 | Erm one of the things we guaran well the guarantees er er several guarantees we give to our our self employed consultants and that is that we will pay all commissions earned the following week |
| 14 | Accordingly , the Agricultural Training Board , like similar organisations , needed to consider the priorities it gave in these areas . |
| 15 | And these you should remember are basically the terms I gave on the previous page . |
| 16 | Training within the home in an informal ‘ conference ’ situation greatly benefits the development of the awareness that time to listen is one of the greatest gifts we give to those we love . |
| 17 | We saw in Chapter 8 that Garrett 's model of sentence production does contain these two components ; and the examples of spontaneous speech by aphasic patients we gave in sections 9.2.1 and 9.2.2 illustrate the two patterns which occur if one of the components is damaged and the other spared . |
| 18 | It also provides a useful example to journalists bored with adding the suffix ‘ -gate ’ to the names they give to all political scandals , regardless of whether they have anything to do with break-ins in Washington : by adding ‘ -dome ’ hacks can bring a new sense of variety to their reports , regardless of whether they have anything to do with teapots . |
| 19 | Given half a chance they would ‘ retrobolt ’ ( what curious technical names they give to hearsay these days ) everything we hold dear . |
| 20 | Johnson increases in delight ; how many edges he gives to an observation . |
| 21 | The tribunal also ruled that a 1982 McBride article in the Australian Journal of Biological Sciences was false and misleading in the details it gave about rabbits used in an experiment with another drug . |
| 22 | The details he gives of contemporary medical practice are explicit . |
| 23 | Most of his jewellery was taken , rings , bracelets , watches and cufflinks , plus items he gave to Jeanette . |
| 24 | He offered an as yo as you read it there in the opening of chapter two , he offered her drink , at meal times she was to eat the food provided for Boaz servants he gave to her the extra portion of parched corn and also he provided extra gleaning for her . |
| 25 | But I mean they actually do work , er ten percent gross yield and erm if you asked me to explain how they get the ten percent , I 'd have to use some notes they gave to me cos it 's , cos it 's complicated , but they use derivatives , and they buy in er in the shares and options market , and erm the company I 'm thinking of actually own the shares , but you take options on them , and they take commission on the options , they also take dividends , er and by the time you 've read the , the , the spiel , it sounds a bit like you 've fitted all these petrol savers to your car and you 're driving to Nottingham , and the tank overflows , it 's that sort of |
| 26 | It is also structured by the biographical situation of the person using the term and the definitions they give to their work role . |
| 27 | The dilemma can be expressed as follows : the more accessible teachers seek to make themselves to all their pupils as individuals , the less time they have for direct , extended and challenging interaction with any of them ; but the more time they devote to such extended interaction with some children , the less demanding on them as teachers must be the activities they give to the rest ; and the less demanding an activity is of their time and attention as teachers , the more the likelihood that the activity in question will demand little of the child . |
| 28 | This change in female initiation patterns is also reflected in the reasons they gave for experimentation with heroin in the first place . |
| 29 | The same committee on the same day had considered Mr. Choudhury 's appeal and the reasons they gave in that case are impeccable . |
| 30 | To understand this process , we have to look at the experiences of students themselves , and the meanings they give to their education . |