Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] can give [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I s do n't think I can give you a precise answer to that question er off the cuff Mr Colgan , I think we 'd have to let you have a note on those figures |
| 2 | I mean I can give you a little example erm I was once trying to add up a series of figures in the middle of an admissions exercise , and one of the other one of the men said to me ‘ oh , come on , you 're far too pretty to do mental arithmetic ’ and I completely lost my train of thought , I got rather confused . |
| 3 | Hope we can give you an opportunity . |
| 4 | ‘ Knowing does n't make it any easier for me , but I hope he can give her a reason for living . |
| 5 | But I , in my workings out , I 'd thought five hundred pounds was the you know you can give 'em a lot less than that , and not , not gon na fund much of an activity , I do n't think the silence was deafening . |
| 6 | I 'm not saying I can give you a figure , all I can say is that originally identifiable will not be forthcoming now because some of this proposal is not meeting them . |
| 7 | No , but she said like , she said it could come today cos she says they deliver I says is there no way I said you can give me a number I said that I could get in contact , she said no , she said were 're not allowed to do that |
| 8 | They , they said well we can redo it for you , they said we can give you a reduction in it , and he sort of bartered with them , and I think he got , you know , a good couple of hundred pound off just for this little chip in the unit . |