Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] give [pron] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expect she gave you a good tea , ’ said my mother . |
| 2 | This will bring Koi to the surface , enabling you to give them a visual health check ( but not of the underside where ulcers may occur ) . |
| 3 | I expect he gived you a funny answer |
| 4 | He told me to give her a bloody good gallop round t'field . " |
| 5 | But of course there is some choice erm let me give you a final southern er Africa example of this , Botswana geographically is one of those countries cut off from the sea , it 's a very large country but much of it is uninhabitable because it 's so arid it 's therefore a small country by almost any standards , number of people , the economy of er of Botswana is small and it 's frankly dependent upon South Africa in many ways for its transport , for its economic wellbeing , for the movement of people erm and even some educational resources . |
| 6 | Let me give you a personal illustration . |
| 7 | Let me give you a partial answer for the moment . |
| 8 | Let me give you a biblical example . |
| 9 | Let me give you a brief word picture of the average transvestite . |
| 10 | But let me give you a particular tip here . |
| 11 | Let me give you a little drop of scotch . |
| 12 | ‘ Now it 's great to be going back there in a successful side — I only hope they give me a good reception . ’ |
| 13 | I queried it , I mean she gave me a precise figure of twenty thousand , and six hundred and fifty five something or other . |
| 14 | And we 'd like you to give it a good , hard look , ’ he says , in a voice meant to remind me that his company has a great deal of money lodged with us . |
| 15 | Deceiving him gave her a fierce pleasure and , as they strolled along by the waterline , with Ben splashing beside them through the shallows , she kept her hatred burning red-hot with a litany of her grievances , chanted over and over inside her head : ‘ He only pretended to like you ; he could n't care less about you ; he thinks you 're thick . |
| 16 | Shirley give her give her a little bit of coaching on the angles and things |
| 17 | But they are particularly easy to mark , but I suspect they give us a false sense of objectivity and I think we sometimes give the statistics a little bit too much weight . |
| 18 | So before we separated he gave me a working title for a song , and told me he wanted me to finish it by the next time he saw me . |
| 19 | ‘ When I beat Nick for the Barcelona Open it gave me a three-year exemption on the tour but it turned out to be a £90,000 exemption — that 's what it cost me to keep playing until I lost it in 1991 . ’ |
| 20 | Reckoned it gave him a psychological advantage . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ There must be lots of people in the village who will want to help us give him a nice birthday . |
| 22 | To help us give you a speedy response it would be appreciated if you could have your policy number readily available . |
| 23 | Actually , the speaker that was talking about this was suggesting we give them an enormous amount of real tangible assets , er without it costing us anything . |
| 24 | Oh yeah all the all the hits er like er Bunch of Time and and Maggie and Old Flames and after all these years , if did n't do those you 'd be shot afterwards like but er what we do with the songs that that were like you know hit singles and that people really come to hear we make sure that you know that we do those and then we put in er you know what we think would be the favourite ones from albums and then we add in a sprinkling of the stuff from the new album so you know we give them a good cross-section for an hour and a half and then we have a good first half of the show as well we 've got first half of the show as well and our band go on with him for forty minutes and er they perform as well a few soloists and er then Tony and myself come on and we do an hour and a half and we go right everything we do on stage we have recorded at some time , we do n't do something that we have n't recorded . |
| 25 | ‘ Rainey put in some fast laps during the final stages of qualifying , so I was expecting him to give me a tough time , ’ said Doohan . |
| 26 | And you 're so anxious to justify yourself , that you answer the question , and then you go on to tell me all the background behind it , and in so doing you give me a lovely piece of information which I did n't actually have when you walked into the room . |
| 27 | THE teenage lover of the man accused of carrying out a vicious sex attack on a coast to coast rambler told yesterday how he asked her to give him a false alibi . |
| 28 | When it seemed to be over , I went next door and called Fielding and asked him to give me an incredible amount of money . |
| 29 | Conchis saw me giving it a lingering glance . |
| 30 | Can I thank Jim very much indeed for attending our conference this morning and ask him to give us a civic welcome . |