Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] give [pron] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The Saudis give me a stretch Mercedes and a clandestine litre of Johnny Walker Black , but no girl .
2 The parentheses gave her a sense of not existing , un-being perhaps was not too strong a word .
3 Tolonen was getting to his feet , one of the guards giving him a hand .
4 The guards gave us a cigarette each and then left .
5 Moscow was also offended by the refusal of the Anglo-Americans to give her a share in controlling the German industrial heartland , the Ruhr , which lay in the British zone .
6 Self-select P E Ps are a little bit different , is that when you , you the managers give you a choice of shares and it 's rather like pulling the handle on the one-armed bandit , you say right , I 'll start with er er I C I and I 'll back that up with B A T , and , and you leave them in for as long as you want , and you pay a charge when you move the shares , so you can actually control the P E P .
7 IN THE ancient fable the frogs called on the gods to give them a king .
8 The objectives give us a way of er measuring at the end of the course whether the course has achieved for you what you wanted from we 'll come back as I said to those this afternoon and and just review them to see that you got out of the course what you .
9 The girls gave him a challenge that they would achieve £81k worth of sales by the end of the third quarter , and they did !
10 The gaffers gave us a bonus
11 But the boots gave me a blister .
12 And er they happen came along er to tell us about the Aberystwyth trip we went off to Aberystwyth the students gave us a party and he said , Oh I like your meetings I wish I could come here more often .
13 ‘ If you change your mind about your convalescence , you 've only got to get one of the nurses to give me a ring . ’
14 I , I think it was only a drop in the ocean really towards the national effort , but , but I remember erm at Darlaston , they used to build tanks over there and they , they used to pay us visits in sometimes they 'd send some of their men over in the tanks to give us a pep talk about the war effort and all that but er , they used to do things like that then to gee you up erm
15 The polls gave him a lead of between five and eight points but when ‘ undecided ’ voters who traditionally opt for the challenger are considered , Clinton is pushed to a commanding 12-point lead .
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