Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [pron] give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one thing , on behalf of the museum services , I would like to thank Doreen Griffiths for the help she gave us in our exhibition , ’ Memories of Change ’ , which you can see in the exhibition room over there , and she contributed a lot of photographs , and her memories , and allowed herself to be taped and have her memories in our archive , and for that we give her a great thank , because it 's not always easy for the , sometimes for the first time to begin talking into a tape-recorder , so we thank her very much , and thank you very much for coming in and performing for us today ! |
| 2 | I just came to make myself au fait with the situation and to garner some information in return for some I give you . ’ |
| 3 | For this I gave them about 30p , which is rather a lot , & since then they have been running up to me when they see me , offering to polish up my briefcase etc . |
| 4 | Eh , first of all they give them champagne so they all get caught drinking and driving , |
| 5 | In the moral optimism informing this play , evil may corrode trust , but it also destroys the healthy functioning of all who give themselves over to it . |
| 6 | Ollivier had already been forced to remake his Ministry , which was now weakened by the presence of many who gave him only grudging support , and this in turn forced him to rely more and more on the Emperor 's personal intervention when difficulties arose . |
| 7 | ‘ It is times like these which give us all hope , ’ she said . |
| 8 | ‘ Ad enuff have you , boy ? ’ he said picking him up and with that he gave them all a brisk wave and disappeared down the steps , closing the hatch quickly behind him . |
| 9 | It improved my techniques and skill in interpretation , but above all it gave me confidence in teaching and training students . |
| 10 | For instance , when Petrarch met the Emperor Charles IV at Mantua in 1354 he gave him some Roman coins with the words , ‘ Look , Caesar , on those whom you have succeeded ; look on those you should strive to emulate . ’ |
| 11 | Another winner from those who gave you the world 's best-selling commercial GPS navigator . |
| 12 | It was the great fire of London in 1666 which gave him his opening , however , and he became a prominent figure in the rebuilding of the city over the next decade . |
| 13 | My grandfather , George Hey ( 1854–1916 ) , worked in a Thurlstone cloth mill as a dresser or finisher when he was a young man , but on the occasion of his second marriage in 1900 he gave his occupation as waggoner . |
| 14 | At a meeting of the Royal Medical Society in 1860 he gave his own gloss on the prostitution debate . |
| 15 | There are two ways of doing that because in actual fact you could do this o over a period of thirty five to sixty which gives you twenty five years |
| 16 | Caring about others less fortunate than ourselves is important and the Christian Aid Committee is most grateful to all who give their time , talents , and money which gives this Festival of Flowers and Music such significance . |
| 17 | It has recently been pointed out by Dr J. R. Studd that ‘ one of [ the Lord ] Edward 's greatest problems was his inability to settle lands from his appanage [ of Gascony and the isle of Oléron ] on those who gave him loyal service in a traditional way ’ . |
| 18 | That we believe would be repugnant alike to justice , to the public , and , we would suggest , to those who gave their co-operation to the P.C.A. — C.N.L. 's intended witnesses — the very people whose interest is said to underlie the immunity . |
| 19 | Not all the congratulatory letters were complimentary , but I 'm just as grateful to those who took me to task or argued with me or lectured me as I am to those who gave me a kind pat . |
| 20 | The card belonged to the bank who issued it under a Credit Agreement , regulated by the Consumer Credit Act 1974 , to those who gave what they considered satisfactory answers to the questions put in their application forms . |
| 21 | Markus Wolf , the former head of East German intelligence from 1958 to 1987 who gave himself up in 1991 [ see p. 38447 ] , was charged on Sept. 24 with treason , espionage and corruption . |
| 22 | Among those which gave me the greatest pleasure I remember the whole of Shakespeare , Shaw 's Androcles and the Lion , and Thornton Wilder 's Our Town . |
| 23 | I feel that at 1–0 we gave ourselves a very good chance . |
| 24 | At first I gave her oral sex while she was sitting in an armchair and then we had full sex with a condom . |
| 25 | And although Lucy made a valiant effort to control her quickening breath , the mad thumping of her heart and the heated excitement rising within her , it was a losing battle — and at last she gave herself up to the rapturous bliss of the moment . |
| 26 | So if you wan na split that up into five segments you divide three hundred and sixty by five which gives you ? |