Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pron] gives [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out there is a whole world full of garbage and it gives me ulcers to throw one more shred of scum back on the heap . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The wave is my lover and she gives me the ultimate orgasm . ’ |
| 3 | We do have a money adviser erm specifically who works with erm tenants who are in rent arrears and who gives them advice on handling their financial problems . |
| 4 | Now correlation , in a similar way , measures something similar to association but it gives you a bit more detail . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's good to get new blood as it gives us more spark . ’ |
| 6 | On tonight 's match , Cooper said : ‘ There 's a lot at stake and it gives us the opportunity to put things right . ’ |
| 7 | You give the assistant £10 and she gives you £1.30 change . |
| 8 | And he pulls out another container of peace and he gives it to somebody else , that is n't how it happens . |
| 9 | At Christmas I give Otley my turkey and he gives me his Brussels sprouts . |
| 10 | Nicky loves it when Squeak cleans her , right , my rats and she gives it and Nicky 's getting all and there 's Squeak going |
| 11 | And really , Sizewell B is really a reprovation because it gives you an idea what the technology 's like and how we 're on top of that new technology itself . |
| 12 | The hon. Member for Foyle ( Mr. Hume ) has , much more eloquently than I could , told us of the damage that it does and the effect that it has on the young people of Northern Ireland because it gives them a future of either migration or unemployment . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | To mark his disapproval of my doing so he gives me the wrong ticket and some change , of which the amount , as far as I can see , bears no relation to any previous transaction between us . |
| 15 | Dear Aura of Life , Thank you for jumping and kicking me in tender places cos it gives me something to cuddle — a bruised gut . |
| 16 | Now in those circumstances , and I can think of a number of schools where that works very well , the governing body is a very powerful force , for links out from the school into the outside world , not only into business and industry , but also into the L E A , and it 's actually quite a lot of schools quite like to have a County Councillor on their governing body because it gives them an in to the L E A at a policy-making , or an individual decision-making level . |
| 17 | I think it 's probably better for us to stay away from all the f—ing scenes in Sydney because it gives us original ideas on life . ’ |
| 18 | a Chinese girl she 's living in it , in a kind of a real dive of loft thing to do her art and she gives him the odd painting instead of paying rent . |
| 19 | But one must still be wary the fact that although we 've got this nice electric gadget , that we drop the probe into a bucket of water and it gives us er a salinity it is still entirely dependent on this ratio and this ratio is based on the constancy of composition which is very good for open ocean waters but breaks down in coastal waters where erosional processes , where fresh water additions and the sediment loads of the rivers may actually alter this ratio , okay ? |
| 20 | In China they 've been eating mouldering cabbage for aeons and it gives them cancer of the oesophagus . |
| 21 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 22 | ‘ I told Tremayne there 'll be trouble if he gives you any of my rides . ’ |
| 23 | Four four , square root and it gives you two . |
| 24 | It would be a bit like choosing to go and spend all Sunday afternoon discussing skin diseases with your 75-year-old deaf aunty in Coatbridge , instead of taking up your boyfriend 's offer of a day in bed at an expensive country house hotel , drinking champagne while he gives you a bit of a seeing to . |
| 25 | If it turns out that this is not the case , if it is discovered that the prohibition denies the would-be rapists more of a chance to pursue the good life than it gives their possible victims , then one may have to adjust other features of the political framework to make sure that this does not result in inequality of ability to pursue one 's conception of the good . |
| 26 | The presence of maids obviates any need for husbands to undertake traditionally female tasks and so , while a woman following her career does challenge a husband 's machismo in the sense that it gives her some independence ( both economically and socially ) , it does not do so in the sense of changing his role in the home . |
| 27 | A realization that it gives us rights that we do n't have as well as some sharing , some loss . |
| 28 | You get wee hooks and you hang them up and they stick there right , and just put your cups on it in a row and it gives you more room on the table . |
| 29 | But in the Edwardian love story , Howards End , her co-star is Sir Anthony Hopkins and it gives her the chance to shrug off the Olivier/Leigh and Burton/Taylor labels she and Branagh have collected . |
| 30 | Boss Lennie Lawrence said : ‘ We have two home games after Southampton and it gives us a great chance to cement a top six place . ’ |