Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adv] give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has come to terms with his fierce ambition and his temper , the demons that once gave him a fascination with the psychotherapy of Laing and Reich . |
| 2 | Bertrams by their generous returns allowance also take away some of our worries and so give us more confidence in making subscriptions , which include Reed titles . |
| 3 | And and I I would think I 'm just thinking of freebies that just giving them something , and yet if they 've actually watched something being made and then |
| 4 | The result is to connect up a network of contracts by a uniform set of rules and thus give them multilateral force . |
| 5 | We know that the job has sharpened some of our talents and even given us other , quite new ones ; we experience a number of pleasurable sensations at work — labouring successfully under pressure , completing the job on time , the anticipation of the moment when we can stop . |
| 6 | As Granpa Charlie and I always had an apple for breakfast , the arrangement sorted out our own needs and also gave me the chance to sample what we were selling to the customers . |
| 7 | ‘ It took a lot of thinking about — living in your own home and happy there for fifty years and suddenly to give it away . |
| 8 | The notion of pastiche is now a guiding thread in critical discourse , to the extent that Palandri 's novel can be put forward as ‘ a disturbing attempt to write a kitsch novel ’ ( De Michelis 1986a ) , and the argument be made — — referring to Piersanti 's Charles — that no novelist born in the 1950s can return to ‘ traditional narrative ’ without being aware that he/she is ‘ holding an old toy which might look fine in an antique shop , or might be an ornament or a collector 's item , but is no good for playing with any more ’ ; if they do use it ( but why should they if it is no use any more ? ) , it is with a mixture of pleasure and melancholy , ‘ like someone repeating a game which once gave pleasure for years and years and now gives none , only the memory of the joy it once gave ’ ( De Michelis 1986b ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Anyway , Jim putted brilliantly in all four rounds , finished equal seventh , genially accepted a cheque for about six thousand pounds and then gave me his own cheque for four hundred . |
| 10 | The fact that consumer platforms will generally be convenient , all-in-one , low cost units needing nothing more sophisticated than a domestic television for display purposes , suggest that many libraries may be able to support all available platforms and so give their customers the widest possible choice . |
| 11 | Hitherto , the Greeks had instinctively interpreted their experience through their myths and so given it " the stamp of the eternal " . |
| 12 | He himself had been brought up first to obey orders and then to give them in the expectation of instant compliance , and was unacquainted with more complex patterns of relationship . |
| 13 | The oriental forests also contain small creatures that perhaps give us a glimpse of the kind of animals that , 70 million years ago , led to the evolution of the first placental mammals and so to humans . |
| 14 | their general practitioner agreed both to discontinue prescribing Charles ' barbiturates and not to give him any further medication . |
| 15 | Now just to give you some figures I mean same tariff that 's the world price supplied the rest of the world , in fact the tariff on it show them that the operation of a a tariff can affect erm world prices and just to give you some idea erm ah , can we just you know when we were talking about the net economic costs well they 're within the European Community , those costs . |
| 16 | On the contrary , Montaigne argues that the legal procedures common in the Europe of his day by which " under the cloak of piety and religion … neighbours and fellow citizens [ were allowed ] to tear by rack and torture a body still full of feeling , to roast it by degrees and then give it to be trampled and eaten by dogs and swine " were a more horrible form of savagery than anything he had described as prevailing among the Brazilian cannibals . |
| 17 | hello there … yes we 've come to Prestbury Park as Cheltenham readies itself for Gold Cup Week … we 'll be looking ahead to the festival in a few moments and also giving you the chance to win two tickets for the big day … first the weekend action and the big race in football … the chase for promotion |
| 18 | This is one of those originals and still giving its present day owner great enjoyment . |
| 19 | He ordered wine and an assortment of pre-dinner tapas and then gave her his attention again . |
| 20 | This allows him to cast his spells and also gives him incredible strength . |