Example sentences of "[noun pl] giving [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tolonen was getting to his feet , one of the guards giving him a hand . |
| 2 | Thankfully the recent revival has generated a new enthusiasm for the use of LM potencies giving us a feeling that , at last , their time has come . |
| 3 | He smiled benignly at Matthew , his quiff of white hair and heavy black-framed glasses giving him the air of a learned cockatoo . |
| 4 | One of the best features of modern gas cooking is convenience , so the ‘ Heatflo ’ oven of the Leisure 220 offers a choice of five shelf positions giving you the flexibility of cooking several different dishes simultaneously . |
| 5 | The colour left her skin , her pale face showing a deep fear at the way he was crushing her to his body , the whipcord strength of his arms and the determination of his roaming fingers giving her an idea of the violence with which he would take her . |
| 6 | In what many observers regarded as a further example of the new censorship , Gosteleradio on Feb. 1 withdrew from Radio Russia two frequencies giving it an audience throughout the Soviet Union , and assigned to it instead a frequency on which it could reach only 60 per cent of the population and which reduced the quality of reception . |
| 7 | For it had obviously been a palace once , the high Gothic arches of the medieval windows and the carved stone Romeo-and-Juliet balconies giving it a fairy-tale air . |
| 8 | How much better it would be for ministers to be seen in the constituencies giving us the ammunition we need to fight on the doorsteps . ’ |
| 9 | In the days of the Bestiary and the Emblem Book , animal pictures had shown the world of Aesop 's fables ; butterflies giving us a symbol of resurrection , and also of feckless enjoyment , in pictures waiting to be decoded . |
| 10 | The action was called after a row between ambulance staff and Mrs Virginia Bottomley , the Health Minister of State , at her South-west Surrey constituency last Friday over her refusal to recognise ambulance workers as the third arm of the emergency services giving them a pay formula automatically tied to the police and fire fighters . |
| 11 | Six satin-cloaked figures in white porcelain masks arranged themselves artistically against the façade of a shop selling Murano glass , the blank stares and the perfectly carved mouths giving them a look of unreality . |
| 12 | The fighting chair on her aft deck had thick white leather straps giving it the appearance of a padded electric chair , while the dazzle paint gave the boat an oddly military look that was completed by the number 666 that was painted on her bows in silver-edged black numerals like those warships use to display their commissioning numbers . |