Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never ceased to be astounded by how quickly and thoroughly he absorbed the notes I gave him . ’ |
| 2 | But I had to keep stopping to peer at the pages , so after a few attempts I gave up . |
| 3 | I remember clearly one of the first times I gave a word of knowledge . |
| 4 | In one of my books I gave more information than was needed to solve a particular problem . |
| 5 | Gentlemen I gave my name , my rank , and my number some time ago , ' Steiner said . |
| 6 | That form bears the closest inspection and as the six-year-old has settled into his new surroundings at the Marriott Stables I give him the edge over Newton Point , whose cause will not have been helped by the rain . |
| 7 | I remember the concert performances you gave in Berlin in December 1977 . |
| 8 | So be careful about the subjects you give . |
| 9 | Shamed Souness said : ‘ I 'd rather not talk about the goals we gave away and concentrate instead on the pluses . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Chesterfield worked hard but we made things easy for them with the goals we gave away . ’ |
| 11 | All the trappings of Christmas — the decorated tree , lights , the presents we give , the crib , tinsel , crackers , the eating and drinking which make up our celebrations — are only ‘ signs ’ . |
| 12 | I 'll write more about testing the call to such work , but within a few months we gave up our travelling ministry and took a team of sixteen adults plus their children out of St Luke 's and began Cranham Community Church . |
| 13 | However , if mind-reading is beyond your ability , you can gain a real insight into horses ' feelings and moods by the physical signals they give out . |
| 14 | ‘ Archaos ’ was n't a flop in relation to the performances they gave . |
| 15 | In other words they give an account of what a professional ought to be like , or advocate a particular process for increasing professionality . |
| 16 | So this poor woman is er anaesthetized , intubated , which is when they put the tube down the throat and connect you up to the life-support machine , and then she 's supposed to be being maintained in her unconscious state with inhalation anaesthesia , in other words they give her er gas and air to breathe to keep her unconscious . |
| 17 | In the hitherto unpublished Leeds University evaluation of the 1991 Key Stage One National Curriculum Assessment , teachers rated the tasks they gave to children as rather more challenging than did observers , and were rather more generous than the observers in their estimates both of the frequency of open questions and of the opportunities they gave pupils to volunteer opinions . |
| 18 | It was while she was reading one of the books they gave her — by a philosopher called Christ — the next day by the lamp-light that she suddenly realized what that gemmed necklace had said . |
| 19 | Bought a Vax , they said no they 're a con do n't worry , he said with a little bit of luck you 'll get one that 'll be free , you 'll have to give a report on it once a month , then about after nine months they give it to you if they thought |
| 20 | He folded it open at a page of stocks and shares , and as he was looking down the lists he gave the man two dollars . |
| 21 | They argued that the rapid movements involved in a star 's collapse would mean that the gravitational waves it gave off would make it ever more spherical , and by the time it had settled down to a stationary state , it would be precisely spherical . |
| 22 | And the more presents he gave his whore , the shorter the time would be . |
| 23 | Little by little , however , the force of this long glen beneath the austere greyness of the Five Sisters touched Johnson , and he moved his position from that of first considering the political role of such remoteness , and the opportunities it gave for military strategies and subsequent escapes — Glenshiel had been the scene of a battle fifty-four years earlier in which local Highlanders unsuccessfully reinforced a Spanish invasion force — to being lulled by the sight of so many waters , brooks , burns , and silver rivulets , ‘ which commonly ran with a clear shallow stream over a hard pebbly bottom ’ . |
| 24 | The rewards for those working in BP come in the quality of the opportunities it gives us for the future . |
| 25 | It 's hardly surprising then , that we get confused by the signals he gives out — now more than ever . |
| 26 | I only read a little in the books he gave me , picked up what I could . |
| 27 | After two months he gave in . |
| 28 | ‘ Certainly , Cabannes did superbly at the back of the lineout today but he was a regular target and in all other areas I gave Back the edge . |
| 29 | ‘ To the preparation of both courses of lectures I gave far more attention than I had latterly been giving at Durham . ’ |
| 30 | Looking back over some lectures I gave in the early 1980s , I note that the division between the schools which could raise money and those which could not was even then causing me concern . |