Example sentences of "he gives " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fancies that Simon is Jewish , and that he gives off ‘ a slight hot smell ’ . |
| 2 | But there is some instability in the accounts he gives of dark professions of faith , in his acerbities and fatalities . |
| 3 | He gives an example about lifting a heavy weight and doing a multiplication sum at the same time and says you ca n't do it . |
| 4 | We have just caught Raskolnikov saying to himself that the moth seeks the candle-flame , and Porfiry says similar things aloud ; while behind both of them Dostoevsky is telling Katkov that the murderer demands punishment and bends to an inexorable divine and human law when he gives himself up . |
| 5 | He gives us a murderer whose ‘ words pattered out like smooth large grains ’ — clear and distinguishable , and yet somehow there is nothing to get a purchase on . |
| 6 | In ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ he goes to the holy man with a document which he gives him to read , and which he does read , and which Stavrogin next proposes to publish . |
| 7 | Of the latter he gives horrific examples , which sicken him and enrage him ( though as much in Mrs Pound 's genteel English version as in Pound 's red-necked American ) . |
| 8 | If he gives the go-ahead , the auction plan would be submitted to industry and other users for comment before any necessary legislation was considered . |
| 9 | He gives a convincing account of what is in store for the inhabitants if they continue to resist , and his words acquire the force of the deeds he describes . |
| 10 | He gives us the assurance one day and the very next day seems to retract or contradict it . ’ |
| 11 | Mr Delors is expected to develop the theme when he gives a speech to the College of Europe in Bruges in 10 days . |
| 12 | When he gives evidence , sitting for the most part on two cushions , he leans forwards attentively like a headmaster , and with something of the same terrifying effect . |
| 13 | Sir David will strive to bolster confidence today , when he gives his annual address at the opening of the new session of the Legislative Council . |
| 14 | It is , however , by drawing on his own past performances , from Aldwych farce to Newman Noggs , from Volpone to Vershinin , that he gives real substance to the evening . |
| 15 | He gives us two kinds : salty recollections , verses and songs of the rank-and-file ( surely no previous volume from this august publisher has contained so many f-words and c-words ) ; and more elegant expressions of disillusion from the intelligentsia . |
| 16 | He gives me what the French call a curious regard and asks me to explain myself . |
| 17 | In his ‘ Preface ’ to Edwin Muir 's Selected Poems , he gives high praise to a poet whose work is very different from his own . |
| 18 | He gives two possible reasons , both of which involve the repression of the perversions . |
| 19 | He 's always pleased to see me and sometimes he gives me food and stuff . |
| 20 | I hold out my hand for the hat and he gives it to me . |
| 21 | He gives fresh orders to his nearest cut-off group to redeploy rapidly . |
| 22 | He gives us a few outlines of ‘ paper logic ’ followed by a paragraph or two describing some of the religious experiences themselves . |
| 23 | He gives us a picture of a firm conversion to theism in the summer of 1929 , followed by a period in which he believed in God , but not in the doctrines of Christianity . |
| 24 | He gives an expensive present to a dying aunt , hoping to be remembered in her will . |
| 25 | From this ‘ kind of contemplation ’ , says Hobbes , has ‘ sprung that part of philosophy which is called geometry ’ ; and he gives some detailed results of his own geometrical contemplations ( including an attempt to square the circle ) in the second and third parts of De Corpore . |
| 26 | More generally , he gives a lengthy defence and articulation of the idea that knowledge is ultimately dependent on the senses . |
| 27 | He gives us that space to grow into the maturity he wants from each of us : freedom to think , freedom to pray in our own way , freedom to worship according to our temperament and inclination . |
| 28 | His death is a sin offering , he gives his life for us , he dies for us , but , as far as I can tell , the New Testament never answers this question : To whom is the sin offering given ? |
| 29 | These points are well illustrated in John Warton 's narration of his talk with a woman in the last stages of consumption , to whom he gives the name ‘ Mary Barton ’ . |
| 30 | He gives us no sign that he believes God will provide a substitute at the last moment , no sign of a conviction that all will be well in the end . |