Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pers pn] give [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What would Fen say if she gave him a truthful answer , told him that Hugh had done her a good turn , jilted her before she could make the most dreadful mistake of her life ? |
| 2 | I already had permission to search all the surrounding fields , so I waited until the field was harvested before I gave it a thorough going over with my detector . |
| 3 | He astounded his American masters by demanding that they give him a more worthwhile job or he would be on his way home . |
| 4 | Erm yes three pictures that you might like to sell if you give me a price for them . |
| 5 | But Basil encouraged and even found some tiny portion of my painting which could be developed though he agreed that I might copy more easily than imagine and he gave me a mounted butterfly to draw . |
| 6 | Do you think if I , do you think if I gave him a fright , s see the , time he says he 's going off to his granny 's and I say away you go , and my mam says she 's not taking him . |
| 7 | Bill thought I 'd died on him the other night cos I was , you know , me breathing and everything , and then all of a sudden I must 've relaxed for a bit and not needed to breathe and he give me a shock he says God I thought you were dead . |
| 8 | Then she said I could look and she gave me a piece of cloth with a few coins in it which my mother had saved for me — and the ring . |
| 9 | So he leaves them in a room where the locks open if you give them a threatening look . ’ |
| 10 | His eyes opened and he gave me a weak smile . |
| 11 | * So I 've been a bad boy at times but they reckon I ca n't walk out on a job if I 'm in the Jungle and Matt 's temperamental which means he does n't normally work unless they give him a hamper full of white powder but he seems to have kicked it and there are n't too many dealers swinging through the trees like Tarzan out here . |
| 12 | Bacteriologists immediately recognised that it gave them a unique opportunity to study the evolutionary processes governing bacterial resistance — as a synthetic antibiotic it could not be influenced by preexisting resistance genes . |
| 13 | You ask how they know and they give you a vague description about the pelvis , etc. etc. , and you go away not altogether satisfied with the explanations . |
| 14 | In the sense that you 've got no control over your portfolio at all , and it 's just invested and they give you a statement . |
| 15 | She comes up to the house and starts bellowing , and just will not stop until you give her a cuddle ! |
| 16 | She has got in ( and out of ) problems with drugs , alcohol and a quasi-religious cult : ’ I was brainwashed and I gave them an enormous amount of money , ’ she says with a shrug . |
| 17 | Lung are never short of ideas , but their appeal is seriously limited because they give us a small taste of everything on their creative menu but seldom enough of one thing to really satisfy . |
| 18 | I guess that it gave her a sense of independence and allowed her personality , which was fairly dominant , to develop . |
| 19 | I 'm not comfortable but I suppose if I gave it a go I would get used to it . |
| 20 | I do n't think there is any question about that , and I feel like we gave him a good shot at staying alive . |
| 21 | Right , the problem is that I ca n't seem to get through on the telephone , I phoned and her secretary came back and said you 've to phone and she gave me a guy 's name like and I got a number for him so I phoned it , ah he works in our Edinburgh office I phoned the Edinburgh office . |
| 22 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 23 | They have asked that we give them a similar quantity from each department . |
| 24 | Oh , her husband may chatter but I doubt if he gives her a blow by blow account of English activities in France . |
| 25 | Dino Tremiti , the number-two driver , was sitting next to Mike , his eyes amused as he gave her a very comprehensive survey . |
| 26 | Brian needed to shit so I gave him a plastic bag and then left it in the bathroom . |
| 27 | But while the large number of coins means that they give us a large quantity of information , their small size and the consequent brevity of their inscriptions greatly restricts the level of interpretation we can make from them compared with , say , a lengthy edict of a Roman emperor fully inscribed on stone . |
| 28 | ‘ I told him I did and he gave me a look which suggested that I should n't have kept it from him ! ’ |
| 29 | He chuckled and she gave him a light punch on the shoulder . |
| 30 | She was always quiet , which I liked because it gave me a chance to talk without interruption . |