Example sentences of "[prep] give [pron] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | We well ca n't you sort of give us an idea of what it 's about , the words and things you know and |
| 2 | Right the idea of this little chat this briefing before we go out and do the er driving assessments next week is just to sort of give you an idea and a and a bit of an inroad into what we 're looking at and what we 'll be doing next week . |
| 3 | Funny way of looking at it I know but it 's sort of to give you an idea of how how the different ways you can actually do this this mechanism and brings out the er variations . |
| 4 | But there was nothing she could do about it , short of giving him an explanation for the presence of Richard 's car outside her flat . |
| 5 | This initiative , in the event , paid off handsomely , both in terms of profit and in terms of giving us an illusion of independence when one of our consortia , which we shared with the Burmah Oil company , discovered oil in what is now the Ninian field . |
| 6 | It is a painless way to travel with the unrivalled advantage of giving you an extra day 's skiing at each end of a week 's holiday . |
| 7 | He could he was a brilliant machinist and er oh crikey I 've seen him turn out a a three throw er crankshaft within a couple of days er you know without any precise measuring and and and in fact he just sort of put his roll on on on a on the shaft he was turning and just sort of gave him an idea as to I mean his eye was almost as good as many a bloke 's measur measurement with a rule . |
| 8 | she sort of gave me an odd look |
| 9 | Further , the employment of an agent may be such as to give him an authority to contract on behalf of his principal generally with regard to a wider or narrower class of affairs ; and as between the principal and third parties such authority can not be limited by restrictions imposed by the principal , but not known to third parties . |
| 10 | With his splendid physique and proud , noble head his presence is such as to give him an instant advantage over any bowler , and he has rarely failed to put that advantage to use ; spinners in particular have suffered at his hands , but when he decides that he wants to score runs it is virtually impossible to bowl to him . |
| 11 | Most teachers want to work hard , and they will not generally use this exercise to con people into giving them an easy life . |
| 12 | Dealers have talked their companies ' financial administrators into giving them an advance , then have left . |
| 13 | His opportunity comes when a lone housewife is murdered by a psychopath and shortly after he himself catches " flue and reckons he can trick the doctor into giving him an alibi that he is too ill to get out of bed . |
| 14 | When I was about to take O-level Art and my teacher said I was a disaster , my father was shamed into giving me an intensive course ( 'I ca n't have a daughter not passing ’ ) and taught me painting , pastel drawing , cross-hatching , line drawing . |
| 15 | Thank you for giving me an opportunity for the future . |
| 16 | THANK you , too — for giving me an opportunity to put you right on a simple matter of fact . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm grateful to Omagh and Roy McCreadie for giving me an opportunity to get back into senior soccer . |
| 18 | Thank you again for giving us an opportunity to view your proposals at this stage . |
| 19 | I thank the hon. Member for Ilford , South ( Mr. Thorne ) for having initiated the debate and for giving us an opportunity to discuss some of the implications of the Secretary of State 's announcement earlier in the week . |
| 20 | They do have other uses of course , such as giving you an early , audible warning of a bite you have not yet seen , and allow you to attend to other things like pouring a cup of coffee and watering the horse , without the risk of missing a bite . |
| 21 | But he thought there was advantage in giving it an opportunity to do so . |
| 22 | In spite of its brilliant career , the society 's delay in giving it an award of merit and a first-class certificate indicates unusual prudence , for ‘ the Château Yquem of apples ’ , as E. A. Bunyard described it in 1929 , did not receive these confirmations of its quality until 1962 . |
| 23 | It is for this reason that the work of the potters is of such interest , in giving us an insight into shifts in taste and , possibly , shifts in the power base too . |
| 24 | Legal records are unique in giving us an inkling of how people of the age saw the world about them . |
| 25 | A useful way of keeping candidates to the order which suits you , apart from giving them an idea of the sequence of questioning at the top of the interview , is to preface each group of questions with an explanatory sentence or two . |
| 26 | Without giving her an opportunity to reply , she went on , ‘ As for yourself , I have the most splendid notion ! |
| 27 | He went on to criticize the Holy Office for acting as judge and jury when it condemned theologians without giving them an opportunity to know what they were accused of , or of responding . |
| 28 | This implication will be made upon the basis that Parliament is not to be presumed to take away parties ' rights without giving them an opportunity of being heard in their interest . |
| 29 | You do n't want to say it out loud Phil cos if I have to swap one of my cards I 'm not gon na give him an N |
| 30 | One such person was John Curran , a producer at ITN , who had already demonstrated his kindness by giving me an answering machine so that I could screen any calls from the press . |