Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [be] [adj] give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From her knowledge of the continent she was able to give me useful information , advice , and travellers ' tips , and she suggested that I take with me a supply of those items which were in even shorter supply in France than in Britain , such as coffee and cigarettes , and use them as barter . |
| 2 | Recent issues of the journal Nature have featured new research on the sea-level rise which is likely to give us the biggest clues : the rise at the end of the last Ice Age . |
| 3 | The major assistance I was able to give him was in connection with the Tribunal , presided over by Lord Radcliffe , established to investigate the Vassall affair in November 1962 . |
| 4 | Having failed to make this distinction they are free to give their ministry calling a higher priority than their family . |
| 5 | A year or so later she told everyone that they must make an annual pilgrimage to that city , where she had a cousin in the catering trade who was prepared to give them all cheap rates , but by that time Rose was losing her grip on the faithful . |
| 6 | Amabel , for the first time in her life , had felt in less than perfect harmony with her John-William when he had declared that Linnet , on the small dowry he was prepared to give her , was aiming too high . |
| 7 | After any major change it is important to give oneself some moratorium — suspend some activities — to allow feelings concerned with the loss of the old to be lived through . |
| 8 | ‘ She wants any damn thing you 're prepared to give her , and that 's a crying shame , because she deserves a hell of a lot more than that . ’ |
| 9 | After spending considerable effort getting the boiler back into working order it was important to give it a steam test , obtain an insurance certificate and get it back on the chassis so that it could be used to haul trains . |
| 10 | The User Guide will be published alongside the software and again at this stage I am unable to give you a price . |