Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] give [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I 'd only ever given him pills before , and I 'm not medically trained , but it 's surprising how quickly you get used to it . |
2 | I do n't usually give him anything . |
3 | I 'm sorry I did n't actually give it one . |
4 | And erm , so I said alright then give me some suggestions , because when we moved out of erm Milton Avenue , Diane and Harry immediately did the walls wood in the kitchen , about the same size as mine |
5 | No , she 's said , she , she ai n't got the courage to ask her for more money , so I said well just give it a few more weeks and then Anne and Brian 's turn up , if it do n't get any better then , I 'm afraid you got Anne and Brian 's . |
6 | No not really , no I , I 'm hale and hearty erm there is no history of illness in my family , my father , my grandfather lived till he was about eighty four I 've never really given it much thought . |
7 | Unless she 's completely drunk , blind drunk and I have n't already given her a good seeing to ! |
8 | I have not yet given him his dinner . |
9 | Indeed , it is not uncommon to hear a tournament player of four or five years ' standing confess that she has not yet given herself a fair chance . |
10 | You 'll find the new Brother KH864 at your local dealer now — make sure you get along there to give it a test drive ! ! |
11 | They feel he is on their side which is like a breath of fresh air in this game for most of us have known to our cost that there are many jockeys who do n't always give their 100pc — especially when our money is down . |
12 | You did not just give me my money for passing ! |
13 | ‘ You did n't even give him one of those fancy cookies just now , ’ she added in an aggrieved tone . |
14 | You did n't even give me a chance to say I would n't do it . |
15 | You did n't really give me much chance — ’ |
16 | If you have a privilege you do n't easily give it up . ’ |
17 | You do n't yet give us money , although I hope may , one day you will be persuaded to do so , but you have given us time , and particularly in the person of your colleague Sandra who is here , and her time to us has been enormously valuable and I want to thank you for that . |
18 | The life of the anchoress was hard but she did not necessarily give herself over to excessive penance . |
19 | ‘ Oh , she did n't ever give me nylons . |
20 | When readers have written in , worried about whether to tell about a secret lover , you 've so often given them the excellent advice : ‘ Keep mum ’ . |
21 | Lindsey closed her eyes on the shocking realisation that she had n't even given it a thought ! |
22 | She had n't really given him time to explain , just looked at that horrible creature prancing about in the hall all sexed up , and assumed the worst . |
23 | Leonora confessed she had n't really given it much thought , all her attention on the weather as Penry loaded the boat . |
24 | What have you got to lose that you have n't already given me ? ’ |
25 | If you have n't yet given us a call on the News Line , please do — remember , we 're interested in your stories . |
26 | It 's come in in different ways , maths , English and science from Spring Gardens is separate separate sheets which we can actually take out the files and give to each department , there 's no problem there Saint John 's again , is separate sheets , Collingwood is n't , it 's actually on photocopiable sheets , we either cut them up and give them out separately in some form or whatever , and what I 've , what we hope to do over the next maybe this year is to ask them for a sheet each , for each subject that we can actually take out of the file and give to each department , so that is has arrived , it ha did arrive last year but it arrived in such hotch botch that we did n't actually give it out , but we certainly have it this year and Marian and I certainly , Marian anyway will get that together and give it out to departments . |
27 | It enables us to experience desires we do not ordinarily give ourselves credit for , and to exercise choices society is reluctant to admit . |
28 | They came in today to give us this talk about kind of er , kind of erm , money we 're gon na get , whatever today , you know , like they said about the Poll Tax |
29 | They 'd not really given themselves the opportunity to consider a song from beginning to end — with them it was just get high and play . |
30 | I 'd run away if I could , but I 've no money of my own ; they do n't even give me an allowance , but pay all my bills for me . |