Example sentences of "gives [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I collect and season most of my wood , which I feel gives me a head start over the clinical pieces available at timber yards . ’ |
| 2 | It gives me a good feeling . ’ |
| 3 | To beat the World No. 1 , even in an exhibition , gives me confidence for the future . ’ |
| 4 | On returning , he very politely gives me a timetable . |
| 5 | He gives me what the French call a curious regard and asks me to explain myself . |
| 6 | gives me some very strange looks when we happen to meet . |
| 7 | The Brigade Major informed me that the Brigadier 's party would be in the restaurant for at least one-and-a-half hours , which gives me time to look around the town . |
| 8 | ‘ A part of myself … which gives me so much pain ’ |
| 9 | But it is a part which gives me so much pain that sometimes I ca n't bear it — ca n't bear it at all . ’ |
| 10 | In my case , for example , my husband gives me every help . |
| 11 | My boyfriend has a full-time job but barely gives me enough money for the shopping . |
| 12 | He 's always pleased to see me and sometimes he gives me food and stuff . |
| 13 | Marie helps me with my money , and every week she gives me some so I can buy plants and stuff for my room . |
| 14 | Marie comes back in and gives me a smile . |
| 15 | I want to keep my new clothes on , so the old woman gives me a big paper carrier bag to put my mac and woolly hat in . |
| 16 | She gives me a little smile and I feel a bit better . |
| 17 | When we get back to the house , Marie gives me the key to the door and I unlock it and let her go in first . |
| 18 | He straightens up his mac and gives me a real serious look . |
| 19 | I just stay there , squatting down and the woman gives me a funny look and tugs the little girl 's hand and they walk round me and go off down the road . |
| 20 | Dad patted me on the head and Mum gives me this little kiss on the cheek and then they went off and left me with this old woman . |
| 21 | Sergeant Nafi gives me a knowing look and I realise we are about to see a repeat performance of the Greek tragedy play . |
| 22 | I love this , though , because it gives me a waist |
| 23 | I imagine that many honest people would sympathise with Weatherhead and happily echo his final paragraph : ‘ All this gives me as much as I need , and seems to me the essential credo of Christianity . |
| 24 | — It is my great resting place , that you are well : truly it is more than health to me , and gives me an untroubled fancy which is good for my work and my temper . |
| 25 | The newcomer noticed it , declared , ‘ I like hot steam ; it gives me that real sauna feeling ’ , squeezed herself between two naked bodies and at once began to talk about yesterday 's television talk show featuring a famous biologist who had just published his memoirs . |
| 26 | You will notice no definite article before the word ‘ sacraments ’ and this gives me a little liberty to begin my address reasonably broadly . |
| 27 | ‘ This place , it gives me the creeps . |
| 28 | ‘ This place gives me the creeps . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Blasted thing gives me the willies ! ’ |
| 30 | At Christmas I give Otley my turkey and he gives me his Brussels sprouts . |