Example sentences of "of [noun] [pron] give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of my favourite presidents , Theodore Roosevelt , president from the early part of the twentieth century and known as the damned cowboy erm you might be interested to know how people become president erm Theodore Roosevelt was an arch imperialist and got very excited about the er war with Spain er America had a s little brief war with Spain at the end of the nineteenth century erm over the possession of Cuba , and erm in eighteen ninety eight , and this aroused great patriotic feelings in all red blooded Americans and especially in Theodore Roosevelt and er er Roosevelt formed his own company of cavalry called the Rough Riders and erm Roosevelt wore glasses and was asthmatic but he had this group called the Rough Riders , sort of early kind of Clint Eastwood stuff , and erm anyway he g he was engaged in the war with Spain er and there was one wonderful moment in the war Spain in which the Spaniards were at the top of a hill called the San Juan hill er and er Teddy , as he was known , of course he gave his name to the teddy bear , did you know that did you ? |
| 2 | Of course you give them back to the client . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course it gave me insights . |
| 4 | Of course I gave her an ‘ A ’ . |
| 5 | If we get first division people I 'll do it a different way to him if I had to end up with second division people and the responsibilities they take on board will very much reflect that and the same surely should happen to the field sales force erm their abilities are reflected in in what sort of activities we give them and by looking at the people we have we then put together a team to most accurately attack whatever we want to do . |
| 6 | Dr Macdonald was consulted on a series of cases which gave him clues to what was to become an accepted theory . |
| 7 | They preferred their little aerosols of teargas which gave them a false sense of security . |
| 8 | It was the goals from McStay , McAllister and McClair which gave the Scots a stirring win in Norrkoping , and the bite of McCall which gave them a formidable balance . |
| 9 | The other major concern for women is about finding ways of living which give us more independence , more control over our own lives , and more self worth than is frequently the experience of women in subordination to men . |
| 10 | ‘ When everyone started to sing Flower of Scotland it gave everyone a great lift . |
| 11 | No I think what it was was a load of bullshit they give me . |
| 12 | The place itself , the arrangement of those low , recently rebuilt stone farms and the few mud and wattle cottages , the eternal comfort of the lake 's shape and colours which seemed not to mirror but to temper her mood , the rise of fells which gave her sensibility its reach . |
| 13 | It was widespread among craft unions like the wool combers who were said to have become " one society throughout the kingdom … if any of their club is out of work they give them a ticket and money to seek for work at the next town where a box club is " . |
| 14 | Early air travellers often flew for adventure , not just speed , and some travellers today , who do not have to cram a two-week break into a busy year , have gone back to earlier forms of transport which give them a far sharper sense of going places . |
| 15 | I flew over copies of that photograph of Tweed you gave me , ’ Morgan reported as he drove the Daimler beyond Exeter towards Dartmoor . |
| 16 | The charity 's annual conference was where she chose to make her first public appearance following the controversy and she broke down in tears at the vote of confidence they gave her . |
| 17 | I want to welcome obviously particularly er the order relating to Wales because it confers on Wales er one additional seat , giving us five altogether because of the rise in the Welsh population over the last ten years and that er although Wales was under represented under the previous erm er you know distribution of seats which gave us only four we will be slightly over represented when we have five because you simply ca n't have four and a half seats , it 's got to be one or the other but since the Welsh population is continuing to rise very rapidly then it is likely that that will be put right . |
| 18 | Religious language provided women with a powerful critique of male sexuality , a language of outrage which gave them their means of representation into the male world of public political debate . |
| 19 | Early on , he was anxious to combine the view that our beliefs about the social world are determined by the structured whole with the claim that historical materialism has achieved the status of a science , a body of knowledge which gives us a true account of the world . |
| 20 | So they devised a lot of things themselves to give them a a a helping hand . |
| 21 | You know who the first person who knocked on Mrs. Thatcher 's door in the House of Commons at the start of the Falklands War , or when it was being planned , it was Harold Macmillan , offering any advice , you know , if she could use his advice , and the one bit of advice he gave her was appoint a small War Cabinet to deal with it , and she took that advice . |
| 22 | Brian had his cholesterol test on er little bit of paper they give you with all the information it tells you the only oils you should use are erm olive oil and saffro saffrall |
| 23 | ‘ It 's about that bit of paper you gave me . |
| 24 | Again when Pharaoh makes Joseph vizier of Egypt he gives him special clothes , as does Joseph his brothers to mark his reconciliation with them . |
| 25 | Scientism is a not-unattractive doctrine , and was especially so to a rising professional middle-class who associated with it theories of eugenics and of mankind which gave them a pleasing sense of class and racial superiority ; but in the later nineteenth century there was no reason to anticipate these darker sides of progress . |
| 26 | As the outcome of official action by an organ of the state , the police case comes before the court stamped with a seal of authority which gives it a powerful influence . |
| 27 | But when people like Norman Jay and Omar said they were into the track , it sort of backed up in my own mind that it was a safe tune — they 're not the sort of people who give you compliments just to make you smile . ’ |
| 28 | It was simply their headquarters where they came to trade , where they came to er perhaps attend law courts but particularly where the prior of came when he came to do services at the Minster because he was a canon of York as well as being canon or the parish of Bramham which gave him a seat in the Cathedral . |
| 29 | We opt for The Baker 's Wife at the Phoenix and all vote it a definite winner , and I wonder again at the jaundiced palate of critics who gave it a fair old drubbing when it first trotted out . |
| 30 | In the light of Point Two , Russia was deprived of the sliver of territory which gave her a toe-hold on the Danube . |