Example sentences of "[pron] be [adj] [conj] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean they wo n't say sand and salt , they 'll say something which is insoluble and give it a horrible chemical name |
| 2 | Because you 're the sort of person people tell their problems and secrets to , because you 're sympathetic and give them hope . ’ |
| 3 | And they couldn't 've well for example with taxation , they could 've erm not taxed the rich peasants at all and then just put all their erm their sort of focus upon the poor peasants and got their income through them and also with land , they could 've just not given any land to poor peasants who were inefficient and given it all to the rich peasants and really gone for a capitalist state . |
| 4 | The hull was presumably steel ; it was this that gave her a rust-streaked look under the dirty coating of ice and snow . |
| 5 | We knew he was hungry and gave him our leftovers . |