Example sentences of "[pron] give a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then and only then was I given a real dose of chloroform ‘ for the afterbirth ’ I was told . |
| 2 | Well I 'm delighted to see so many of you have taken the trouble to come and join us today for yet another annual public meeting and in welcoming you can I give a particular welcome to our new chairman Mike Betts , thank him very much indeed for joining us . |
| 3 | I give a general welcome to the Bill . |
| 4 | Algy must remember to ask you to come next time I give a little party for her . |
| 5 | I give a blank agenda to the supervisor and say ‘ Have a team meeting with your own team , and see what problems you 've had or experienced . ’ |
| 6 | Tuesday , 23rd : After a brief meeting at the High Commission with the Education Adviser , I gave a second lecture on ‘ the Logic of Polite Conversation ’ at J.N.U. , and was afterwards invited to lunch by the English Department , in the company of the Vice-Chancellor and various members of staff . |
| 7 | Before leaving , I gave a spare key to Lisabeth and an envelope with Jo 's two hundred quid for her to give to Mr Nassim . |
| 8 | Retracing our steps , we passed the reed screen once more and I gave a cursory glance through the hole . |
| 9 | Suddenly I was full of hope again , and I gave a great shout of happiness . |
| 10 | I gave a short address with one foot on each side of the peace-line [ a sleeping policeman — concrete ] basing my theme on the marvellous passage in the second chapter of the Gospel according to St. Luke — the song of the angels , seen and heard by the shepherds , ‘ Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace and goodwill to all people ’ . |
| 11 | We were there on 3rd May 1945 when Rangoon was liberated , and that evening I gave a short broadcast over All-India Radio , telling our friends in India and Burma that we should shortly be back in the liberated city to help with the tremendous task of reconstruction . |
| 12 | No , what she said was that we spent er no he said I gave a fat cheque for the caravan . |
| 13 | It asked about six months in a limited industry , and I gave an accurate answer on that . |
| 14 | Let me give a classic example from another branch of biology . |
| 15 | Let me give a concrete example of what I mean . |
| 16 | The Theatre Collection later acquired the personal papers of Tree 's wife , Maud , which give a fascinating insight into the life and work of a popular actress , socialite and philanthropist . |
| 17 | The companies publish information leaflets which give a rough guide to whether you are likely to benefit from having a meter and will tell you whether one is possible for your house . |
| 18 | Their concern has been to prevent de-skilling and to exert pressure to design jobs which give a higher quality of working life . |
| 19 | If the requirement for in situ hybridization to chromosomes is to probe for the completely unknown localization of unique sequences in the mouse genome , existing techniques are limited to tissue samples which give a plentiful supply of both slides and mitotic cells . |
| 20 | As these will stop in 1998 , developers are favouring projects which give a rapid return on their investments . |
| 21 | Under increasing public pressure , farmers are taking a greater interest in free-range systems which give a fairer deal to farm animals . |
| 22 | Minor faults to full-blown emergencies can be realistically created on screens which give a lifelike vision of dials and control room gadgetry . |
| 23 | However , the edited edition of The Letters of Pte Wheeler contains several letters dating from 1823 which give an interesting account of garrison life on Corfu and other islands . |
| 24 | In elaborating such proposals there is admittedly a strong temptation to indulge in political rationalism : they are by nature proposals which give an important role to action on the part of a ‘ socialist government ’ or the ‘ state ’ within which a socialist government is installed , yet it is often unclear what such a socialist government would look like , how it might come into being and from where it would draw its mass support . |
| 25 | She was crying and meaning in the wind , sir , up there on her owny-oh with nobody giving a blue damn about her . |
| 26 | Density might have remained the most accepted form of classification but for three developments in the 1970s which gave a great impetus to the classification of rural populations into different typologies or groupings : |
| 27 | The engine compartment had to be outside the cockpit for acoustic and thermal insulation so we introduced a vertical backlight for good rear visibility and blended it into the fins sloping down from the roof , which gave a certain lightness to the rear pillars , This solution has become a constant feature on all Pininfarina Ferraris up to the Testarossa . |
| 28 | The calculated mass was 0.056 M E , which gave a mean density of 5500 kg/m 3 . |
| 29 | =1056 , p<0.01 ) and ‘ How well does this film show what normally happens at the junction ? ’ , which gave a mean correlation with risk ratings of 0.11 ( d.f . |
| 30 | This was brought about in no small degree by the invention in the 1890s of the safety bicycle which gave a wide cross-section of the population real mobility for the first time . |