Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun] [coord] give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just take these other duties off my shoulders and give me a day a week for the next year to attend a decent training course so that I can master it , and I 'm yours . ’ |
| 2 | through my ears and gives me a headache |
| 3 | ‘ Right , we 'll have you on sick parade after your bath and give it an inspection . |
| 4 | Izzat serves as its identity and gives it continuity and ‘ worth ’ . |
| 5 | I have met women who epitomize the ‘ good mother ’ ; they genuinely love and care for their children and give them a great deal of attention , playing with them and guiding them in a way that most of us feel we can never emulate . |
| 6 | No adult insect can produce silk , so these ants bring young larvae to the site , holding them between their jaws and giving them little squeezes so that the larvae will produce their silk . |
| 7 | Have a tin of , have a pack of my chocolates and give them to Gail , and give them to that to Beverley . |
| 8 | ( 2 ) Allowing the appeal , that before making the prohibited steps orders the justices should have informed the parties of their intention and given them an opportunity to make submissions as to whether such orders were appropriate ; that the justices had had no jurisdiction to make an order prohibiting the parents from having contact with each other because such contact was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibility towards his child and thus was outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; that , on the evidence they accepted , the justices had been plainly wrong to refuse to make the interim care orders ; and that , accordingly , the court would substitute interim care orders relating to both children ( post , pp. 271B–D , H — 272A , F , H — 273A ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Although one assumes David only crossed the border because his niece had been cheated of her crown and gave him no peace until he avenged her , haranguing him with letter after letter . |
| 10 | I get hold of her shoulders and give her a good shake . |
| 11 | These documents were intended to set out clearly the basis on which services would be provided to a customer , to inform him of his rights and to give him the opportunity of allowing or prohibiting certain types of transactions such as off-exchange transactions , borrowings on his behalf and illiquid investments . |
| 12 | Mr. Occhi got into the taxi , took £1 out of his wallet and gave it to the appellant who then , the wallet being still open , took a further £6 out of it . |
| 13 | ‘ Here you are then , ’ said the boy , taking the wire-cutters out of his pocket and giving them to Philip . |
| 14 | And he took the medals out of his pocket and gave them to him . |
| 15 | He pulled a Marathon out of his pocket and gave it to Philip . |
| 16 | Lee took it out of his pocket and gave it to Philip . |
| 17 | Very slowly and carefully , Carl took it out of his pocket and gave it to him . |
| 18 | Now think about taking control of your life and giving your-self rewards . |
| 19 | Guide us oh God with your love as we await the coming of your son and give us all grace to welcome him into our hearts as his mother welcomed him in Bethlehem , and we ask her help as we pray . |
| 20 | Having passed from the Mediterranean to the Indus without attracting the attention of a single government official , Battuta , like so many subsequent travellers , crossed the Indian frontier only to find himself caught up in an impenetrable web of bureaucracy : no sooner had they set foot on the east bank of the Indus than intelligence officials ‘ wrote to Delhi informing the king of our arrival and giving him all the details concerning us . ’ |
| 21 | And we 're very grateful , you 've brought rural interest , you 've brought much wider interest , and you 've brought a great deal of warmth and compassion and interest and time , what more could we say , but to show a token of our appreciation and give you a few flowers to go with that . |
| 22 | It was n't until 1880 with the passing of the Ground Game Act , giving tenant farmers protection against their landlords and giving them the right to kill hares and rabbits , that the laws were even modestly relaxed . |
| 23 | Her hands stole up his chest , then to his shoulders , and finally she clasped them behind his neck and gave herself up to the pleasure of the kiss . |
| 24 | She had been a regular person once , but that had been before the voices started up in her head , before the dead woman got out of her rocking chair , before the preacherman reached into her mind and gave it a sharp twist … |
| 25 | In those days many Europeans , especially in Kenya , relied on Somalis as their headmen ; in turn , these Somalis identified themselves with their masters and gave them devoted service . |
| 26 | I tried to help him with his schedule and give him advice on exam technique . |
| 27 | He smoothed the paper with his fingers and gave it to her . |
| 28 | Turning over the free endpaper to the next double page , we shall usually arrive at the first appearance of print , unless the publisher has been very free with his endpapers and given us some blanks . |
| 29 | While she was thus engaged Chignell had summoned the hotel doctor , who presently ushered her into his sanctum and gave her something to drink , which tasted horrible but made her feel much better . |
| 30 | Anyway , I came back into his office and gave him his coffee , and was just getting down to a long bout of conveyancing when the phone in our room rang . |