Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [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| 1 | He was shown unpublished essays and given his own room to work in .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 | Hamish would take pity upon this sorry figure and give him the duffle-coat to keep himself warm . |
| 5 | We explained how the enjoyment of reading helps to develop children 's imaginative and aesthetic lives , enriches their use of language , introduces them to our cultural heritage and gives them opportunities for cultural analysis . |
| 6 | Beccaria uses just such an argument against capital punishment ( in addition to his rational , effectiveness arguments ) ; we simply would not enter into a social contract that gave someone the right to kill us . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I rumpled his dark curly hair but gave him a firm ‘ No ’ when he asked , ‘ If I play radio louder , me get better more quickly ? ’ |
| 9 | Ironically , it was Artemesia 's horrendous experience that gave her talent focus , strength and direction — hence her paintings of heroic women and paintings that capture the disturbing sense of sexual threat and graphic display of woman 's vengence — voicing Artemesia Gentileschi 's own anger and rage . ’ |
| 10 | We must not leave the eighteenth century without mention of the great typefounder and printer of Birmingham , John Baskerville ( 1706–75 ) , who not only designed the famous type that bears his name but greatly improved the general standard of English printing and gave us , in 1763 , one of the most splendid editions of the Bible . |
| 11 | One of Charles Tennant 's business partners was a young Glasgow chemist called Charles Mackintosh , the man who later gained world-wide recognition for his invention of a waterproof fabric and gave his name to a raincoat made of the material . |
| 12 | I realize you 're a trained psychologist but give me some details . ’ |
| 13 | The city , he continues , was a ‘ sign of capital ’ ; it ‘ took up and eviscerated the varieties of social practice and gave them back with ventriloqual precision ’ . |
| 14 | This is a wonderful design in that it combines real style with light weight and gives you totally unimpeded access to all but the very top fret . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , Kenneth Branagh has saddled up the old warhorse and given it new colours . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , Kenneth Branagh , actor , director and entrepreneur , has saddled up the old warhorse and given it new colours . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ However I wanted to race in Ireland and I was frustrated when the Lisburn club came back to me a few days after I had signed up for the French meeting and gave me the full details . |
| 19 | This is the one combination which lifts the tailored jacket out of the dated power-suit idiom and gives it a contemporary relevance . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | All you have to do , Laura , is to tell him that you love him , ’ she 'd added , putting her arms around her old friend and giving her a hug . |
| 22 | I suppose I thought she 'd either be fantastically frosty and sit on one of those little gilt chairs with a fancy gilt mirror behind her , or else be quite fat and red-faced and come in from the stove holding a wooden spoon and give me a huge embrace smelling of garlic and stockpot . |
| 23 | But it was a mask-like smile that gave her face a waxy , basilisk look . |
| 24 | • Take five of PFK 's top writers and give them a nominal £250 to set up a tank . |
| 25 | They assumed that wealth was automatically there , and that the task of politics was simply to take from the wrong people and give it to the right ones . |
| 26 | All of this gives Dickens a very individual and interesting style and gives you the feeling that every episode is useful and vital in some way to the plot . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And she put it before Gabriel on a wooden plate and gave him a wooden cup full of water . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Barnsley 0 , Derby 3 DERBY returned to their slick , enterprising form and gave their promotion hopes a welcome shot in the arm . |