Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pers pn] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | In March I gave the whole of the plot a dressing of blood , fish and bone fertiliser . |
| 2 | Secondly , we are told that David I gave the town the muir in 1128 , whereas to the best of our knowledge he did nothing of the sort . |
| 3 | And when I came back , Bobby I gave Grant they and erm he must 've been pretty desperate because he did a wee wee before we left and he did a wee wee before |
| 4 | Lisa , her Mum gives her about every Saturday she gives her a tenner , but if she 's going out she gets a lot of money right . |
| 5 | Bishop Burnet I gave up with even more regret than the ‘ place . ’ |
| 6 | When he turned his head to look at Turakina she gave a gasp of annoyance and let go of the half-plaited queue . |
| 7 | HERE are two more unlikely lads to add to the super WWF Wallchart we gave you on Monday . |
| 8 | On 3 May he gave an address on Milton at the Frick Museum in New York , in which he recanted his previously low opinion of the poet , and on this occasion he seemed to one observer " incredibly refined , visibly aged " — he had given the same address two months before to the British Academy , and thus had saved himself additional effort . |
| 9 | Immediately on his arrival in England he gave orders for Eleanor 's release from custody . |
| 10 | ‘ When everyone started to sing Flower of Scotland it gave everyone a great lift . |
| 11 | And I was with Deborah he gave me a hard |
| 12 | In November he gave an address at the Mary Institute ; the ghosts of the past were all around him as he spoke of the door into the schoolyard , the corridors , the whisperings of his enclosed childhood world . |
| 13 | On 15 October he gave an ‘ academy ’ ( a concert ) at the city theatre : the programme included two piano concertos which he played himself ( K.459 in F , noted by one listener as a work of ‘ gentillesse and great charm ’ , and K.537 in D , subsequently known as the ‘ Coronation ’ ) , a symphony ( presumably one of the 1788 group ) , and various arias and piano pieces . |
| 14 | In a fit of feverish activity Gould proceeded to publish a series of lectures and papers as quickly as he could possibly produce them ; on 25 August he exhibited and named at the Zoological Society six new species of kangaroo and presented his information on the bowerbirds ; on 8 September he read a paper at a scientific meeting on the extraordinary brush turkey , or Alectura , among a selection of others ; on 13 October he gave an account of the Ocellated leipoa ; on 10 November he exhibited at the Society 50 of his new Australian birds , which he characterised in subsequent meetings ; and so on , until he had presented all his new trophies from both the bird and animal kingdoms to the awestruck Zoological members . |
| 15 | That were one of the best nights in my life , the charge we gave Arthur he gave it straight back to us . " |
| 16 | Even Christianity , which is in danger of saying that when God ‘ became ’ man in Jesus He gave up all the attributes of divinity , like omnipresence , draws back from saying so , admitting that God ‘ put on ’ or ‘ added ’ humanity to His unchanging divinity during the Incarnation . |
| 17 | When he saw Oliver he gave a watery grin and said ‘ So it 's you again , ’ in a low , rather grumbling voice . |
| 18 | By the very fact that we work for Wimpey we give an image of the Company to everyone who knows that . |
| 19 | Ambulancemen told his parents that when they first attended Craig they gave him only minutes to live . |
| 20 | Wisely , Roxburgh wo n't change it , but says : ‘ By including Durrant it gives me an added dimension and an option to our midfield play . ’ |
| 21 | Processed carefully in Rodinal it gives as fine a grain as is likely to be required from , for example , 35mm enlarged to a 20″×16″ exhibition size print . |
| 22 | First of all , when holding an FBL he gives up his right of control and disposition of goods in transit . |
| 23 | By moving forward to Shenton it gives the Battlefield Line access to the tourist attraction , the Battle of Bosworth visitor centre . |
| 24 | ‘ If Barnes , Waddle , Lineker play to form , and please God he gives Gascoigne a free role , we 're a match for anyone ’ |
| 25 | Again when Pharaoh makes Joseph vizier of Egypt he gives him special clothes , as does Joseph his brothers to mark his reconciliation with them . |
| 26 | ‘ Peaks ’ is actually to give the wrong impression , anywhere else they would be no more than hills ; but on Amantani they give a commanding view of Lake Titicaca and make you feel as if you 're on top of the world . |
| 27 | and half of it is rubbish and decent rubbish and that 's rubbish there it is I knew it was in here somewhere I knew I thought it was in the Prima they gave it to you but obviously it was erm in Essentials everything out of there do n't think they had many Christmas You used to was it you , you see you can make your own , was it you that we went up to town that time and brought those erm from John Lewis the round |
| 28 | ROBBIE You gave me away . |
| 29 | And before Bill Robins left for Sanderstown he gave me his address and telephone number , saying , ‘ I 'll be really hurt if you ever come to Sanderstown and do n't look me up . |
| 30 | Ron was kind ; like Mr Scrooge he gave us Christmas Day off . |