Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun pl] give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At I prepared to return to Britain , several of my relatives gave me copies of their identity cards , the deed for their houses and even the ownership documents for their property . |
| 2 | ‘ We must beware lest unscrupulous people exploit these areas of misunderstanding and divert our attention from the really important task , which is our common defence of the kind of freedoms we hold so dear : the freedoms for which this noble university so proudly stands and for which so many of its sons gave their lives in foreign fields . ’ |
| 3 | The touch of his fingers gave her such pleasure , that , scowling , she coughed all the way back to the theatre . |
| 4 | I 'll talk to you about one of his experiments to give you a sort of flavour of it , although other people and himself and others have done a lot of interesting work that 's similar . |
| 5 | Their closely cropped hair and the drawn pale look of hunger in their faces gave them that terrifying animal uniformity which falls over all human beings in permanent physical distress . |
| 6 | Almost all had some form of conscious planning or deliberate encouragement from their lords to give them urban status . |
| 7 | This passage from her writings gives us a sense of proportion about our joy through suffering : |
| 8 | Jaq switched on the magnetics in his boots to give him purchase for possible combat . |
| 9 | But the fact that you were a close and dear friend to my parents gives us a close bond , nevertheless . |
| 10 | The thought of soiled nappies and vomit on my clothes gives me the horrors . |
| 11 | Runners are more conservative , instead of their heads they look to their shoes to give them the competitive edge . |
| 12 | This is what central government say that councils should be spending on its services given its populations ' age and social conditions . |
| 13 | He was a tall , attractive man in his mid-forties , the grey hair at his temples giving him a distinguished look . |
| 14 | After twenty-eight rounds Cribb was unable to come to scratch , but a ruse by his seconds gave him time to recover , and Molineaux retired in the thirty-third round . |