Example sentences of "[verb] give [pers pn] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reg Pybus , with his gun at my head , is always ready to stab me in the back though , and eighteen unlucky defeats has given him plenty of ammunition . |
| 2 | It has given me something to live for . |
| 3 | But he said : ‘ We 've had talks and Kevin Keegan has given me something to think about . |
| 4 | This week in bed has given me plenty of opportunity for thought or , to be more exact , time to dream — thought is too impressive a work . |
| 5 | He has given me nothing but total loyalty and respect at a time when I needed it most . |
| 6 | I am the Kha-Khan 's trusted servant , and he has given me everything I ever asked of him : this land in perpetuity , peace and security for our clan forever . ’ |
| 7 | Prosodists should take it as a manifesto for investigating the links between those intuitions and the linguistic surface of texts , particularly at the phonetic level : rhythmic analysis still needs its empiricists , and Cureton has given them plenty of work to do . |
| 8 | Lawrence has given us something we could not easily get otherwise : he has given us thought spoken as language . |
| 9 | Mike has given us one which is I think an excellent one . |
| 10 | ‘ Want to give her something to talk about ? ’ |
| 11 | He wants to give me two years , but the board only want to give me one . |
| 12 | Well Newcastle folk have been waiting a long time , and we all badly want to give them something to celebrate . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ So it is , ’ she agreed , ‘ but before you go I want to give you something . ’ |
| 14 | Whenever I smiled , he smiled back happily as if I 'd given him something . |
| 15 | He stopped bothering me , I 'd given him something more important to worry about . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's not that , ’ Fabia began , certain in her heart that she had now scuppered every last chance of that interview with Ven , but with Cara having more than enough to worry about with Barney still so poorly , not wanting to give her something else to be upset about . |
| 17 | Save give it somebody else . |
| 18 | Erm , it took , it took a week and a half before the fresh foods secretary even spoke to me when I went in this place to do the free appointment , nobody 's told me how I 'm doing , so then what 's the point of doing these things if nobody 's going give you anything , it 's just a waste of time ? |
| 19 | so I thought you 'll probably give him a bottle when you got here anyway , so I was going to give him one , it all depends when he got up and I thought you 'll probably give him one so I did n't |
| 20 | " Are you going to give me something or not ? |
| 21 | They go off whistling when it is obvious I 'm not going to give them anything . |
| 22 | Or they thought they were and the only people they 're going to get any more from is the parents , nowhere else , nobody else is going to give them anything I 've got no illusions about it , I do n't expect you to get anything from anywhere else , and I know that you , you would n't get anything from anywhere else because they , they 've cut it , they 've cut it to the bone and the only people that can afford to go now and to live in anything like |
| 23 | Because that , that 's going to give us something . |
| 24 | You do n't really want I 'm certainly not going to give you something you do n't want , so |
| 25 | I 'm twenty-one , I 've got three years here , I 'm going to give it everything . |
| 26 | At the back of his mind , he marvelled that Lorton had bothered to give him anything at all . |
| 27 | We should get Grant 's all ready because mummy forgot to give him one before he went to school . |
| 28 | ‘ Sir , ’ I said , ‘ I 'd like to give you something to thank you for your kindness to me since I arrived at the palace . |
| 29 | You 've got to give me something constructive to work on , ca n't you see that ? ’ |
| 30 | You 've got to give me something to work with . ’ |