Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was shown unpublished essays and given his own room to work in . |
| 2 | He shrugged his broad shoulders and gave her a warm smile . |
| 3 | By the time they are mature , hedgehogs can have several thousand of the modified hairs that give them their prickly appearance and an ideal form of defence against attackers . |
| 4 | You 'll need come a good few times and give it three four six months . |
| 5 | It was proving to be an ideal choice of holiday with a programme of free activities that gave us an easy opportunity to make friends with the guests form other nations who gave the Club such a cosmopolitan atmosphere . |
| 6 | Mr Reynolds was kept comfortable by lifting and moving him gently every 2 hours and giving him regular analgesia . |
| 7 | The leaves of this tree are rather common fossils , striped with longitudinal veins that give it a superficial resemblance to the leaf of an iris . |
| 8 | I wrote to him every few days and gave him the details of everything that happened and everyone I met . |
| 9 | If the contents are not in accordance with your understanding of our agreement , we shall be pleased to receive your further observations and to give you any other information you require . ] |
| 10 | If the contents are not in accordance with your understanding of our agreement , we shall be pleased to receive your further observations and to give you any other information you require . |
| 11 | If the contents are not in accordance with your understanding , we shall be pleased to receive your further observations and to give you any other information you require ] |
| 12 | If the contents are not in accordance with your understanding of our agreement , we shall be pleased to receive your further observations and to give you any other information you require . ] |
| 13 | If the contents are not in accordance with your understanding of our agreement , we shall be pleased to receive your further observations and to give you any other information you require ] . |
| 14 | There was loads of levers and , and er er crossheads and , and different things that gave plenty of work to our colleagues er including the housing you know , which was a huge er er piece of er welded equipment you know , built into the side of the ship . |
| 15 | • Take five of PFK 's top writers and give them a nominal £250 to set up a tank . |
| 16 | You had to satisfy the Traffic Commissioners , that what you are proposing would , would answer the cause , would n't give rise to erm great hardships to the travelling public and erm oh you 're preparing a fare increase about a year before it actually came up to , in front of the Commissioners and then he would erm , perhaps make some alterations or give you a date when you could apply . |
| 17 | They do some activities downstairs — they take some of the old ladies and give them bits of painting and that sort of thing , but nothing I 'm interested in . |
| 18 | Evelyn peered through the newly installed spyhole after turning on the porch light , unfastened the two fresh locks and gave her visitor a radiant smile . |
| 19 | By the time you 've bought them some cigarettes and given them some money for the pub and said well if there er and the car has n't got any petrol so you pay for ten pounds worth of petrol . |
| 20 | Only an idealized observer could see both the inner processing and the causal relations of the symbols to outside objects that give them meaning : no one could actually be that idealized observer , because each observer is confined to operating on the symbols that are within his computational machinery , and this excludes their external causal relations . |
| 21 | But , as she looked up into his dark eyes that gave nothing away , and battled furiously against the pride that would have held her back from pressing her question , suddenly the sun came out . |
| 22 | But fundamentally , of course , there is a massive overlap between the two movements in terms both of the issues and of the values and philosophical concerns that give our work any meaning at all . |
| 23 | He tore out the early pages and gave me the rest of it and we use it now for our visitors ' signatures . ‘ |
| 24 | Botha equalised from 45 metres and gave his side the lead on 20 minutes with an identically tricky penalty . |
| 25 | Some were real scrambles and gave me hundreds of grey hairs . |
| 26 | Being the only Leeds fan in a London inner city school with Alan Clarks famous speach about bring Success to Leeds in 3 Years , is causing me to go into cold shivers and giving me a pessimistic mood about the new season , I can still remember the years of telling school friends at the end of each season that we are rebuilding and that we would come up the next season . |
| 27 | They feel like an extension of my arm , with a sweet action down their 10 ft length which is supple enough to cast free-lined baits and give me a feel of a fighting fish , yet with power to spare when I have to bend it into the run of a big carp . |
| 28 | Tom picked up Willie 's three books and gave them to him to carry . |
| 29 | The throw took her by surprise , was sharp and strong , and went a little wide , so that it was only the experience of three younger brothers that gave her quick enough reflexes to shoot an arm out sideways to take the catch . |
| 30 | Clare takes conventional subjects and gives them a twist , physically and artistically . |