Example sentences of "to [pos pn] [noun] and give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I jump to my feet and give her a hug , and she pats my back . |
| 2 | It is hard to describe the feeling I had as I persuaded her scaly old feet on to my finger and gave her a dose of my very own medicine . |
| 3 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 4 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 5 | I tiptoe over to her bed and give her a nudge . |
| 6 | A lioness , having caught a gazelle , may not kill it but drag it back alive to her cubs and give it to them so that , crippled though it is , the cubs may have a little practice in how to bring it down . |
| 7 | He stared back and , blushing with confusion , she rose to her feet and gave him a little bob . |
| 8 | And she had asked him what would have happened to her if she had not had these good friends who had come to her aid and given her shelter , and when , in the form of an excuse , his answer had been , did n't she realize that he was distracted ? she had come back with , did n't he realize he had almost killed a man , that he was lucky he was n't in gaol now answering a charge of murder ? |
| 9 | Several weeks later , on the twenty-first anniversary of the baby 's death , we held a tearful and moving ceremony with candles and poetry , in which Betty said goodbye to her baby and gave herself permission to get on with the rest of her life . |
| 10 | They took him to their rooms and gave him a glass of vodka or slivović and teased him . |
| 11 | The first gave him a degree of control over appointment to benefices in the Church ; the second referred certain cases to his court and gave him certain prerogative powers . |
| 12 | Having dismissed the Cabinet on Jan. 8 , the President on Jan. 21 , 1990 , reappointed the Prime Minister to his post and gave him the responsibility for bringing together a new ministerial team [ see p. 37174 ] , which was announced on Feb. 15 and sworn in on Feb. 17 [ see p. 37240 ] . |
| 13 | ‘ If she took her poor child back to his father and gave her husband a second chance , she would n't need money . ’ |
| 14 | He went to his mother and gave her a rare kiss . |
| 15 | He wrote a letter to his mother and gave it to Wilson . |
| 16 | ‘ If you wanted to write a letter to your daughter and give it to me , I could address it to Miss — to Clare for you . |
| 17 | The therapist who will listen to your problems and give you a good perm is bound to avoid the dole . |
| 18 | IMAGINE the reaction if , say , Ladbroke came to its shareholders and said : ‘ The Government have decreed that we will have to rebid for our betting licence in 1992 , and to put ourselves in a better position to win it we are taking on borrowings equal to our equity and giving our managers around 15 per cent of the company . ’ |