Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] give [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To complicate the picture even further , there are a number of other devices which , although not strictly security interests in the sense of vesting some type of proprietary interest in the creditor or which give him possessory control over assets of the debtor company , nevertheless act as security . |
| 2 | The staff all know what 's got to be done and they go off and do it ; it 's just when jobs are different that I give them any guidance . |
| 3 | It was duly arranged that we should meet after work , and it was then that I gave him further details about my ‘ sponsored ’ trip to Paris and about my much more ambitious idea of a trip to Libya . |
| 4 | Not that I gave it serious thought . |
| 5 | ‘ Apparently , her cat had very bad plaque on its teeth and she was really concerned , so I gave her some advice and Amy has been in touch ever since . |
| 6 | Oh , before that she gave him strict injunctions to be sure to kill Horrible or he would destroy them all , which was duly done . |
| 7 | Erm can we can you as part of the discussion , can you start off by saying well thank you very much for the call that you gave me last week but erm erm there 's there 's just a couple of sizes I 'd like to talk talk to you about . |
| 8 | that you give them additional training so they |
| 9 | If customer complaints pass your desk , ensure that you give them maximum time and personal attention . |
| 10 | She just made up so you give her some money ! |
| 11 | They 're just pure-intellect machines , as well all know , but I swear that it 's not out of humanizing sentiment that we give them female names and pronouns . |
| 12 | So that there 's a kind of assessment built in there … but that piece of work goes forward in the end and is more , slightly more , formally assessed in the sense that we give them direct feedback on performance , and that runs from technical notes , director 's notes , to a very much more abstract formal assessment , which is essentially subjective , ‘ How does one feel about this piece , the atmosphere it creates ’ , … and that 's quite different from director 's notes , which can be of a technical variety to do with voice , movement , audibility , characterization , anything ; the things that are actually being described , analysed , looked at in the end … |
| 13 | She came out and said he was definitely still in one piece but probably had cramp or pins and needles so we gave him some painkiller . |
| 14 | A council they oppose so much that they give us one of the lowest grants per head in the country , poll tax cap us , take us to court over redundancy payments , criticise us over the Meadow Well management and so on . |
| 15 | all these drugs he 's been having , so they gave him some er tablets and er , he said on Sunday he was in such pain , so he said try these , he has given me some before , but er , you 're supposed to take two and I was only taking one |
| 16 | Also they had to film the invasion in the dark so they gave us two lamps . |
| 17 | I 'm gon na lift a few mint roots Stefan and er plant them in a box of compost and put them in the warm greenhouse so they give me nice sprigs of fresh mint in a few months ' time . |
| 18 | worth a pound off so they give you ten points do they every ? |
| 19 | In practice , Clarence 's grant was a dead letter in Richmondshire , although it gave him extensive interests elsewhere , notably in Lincolnshire and East Anglia . |
| 20 | In practice , Clarence 's grant was a dead letter in Richmondshire , although it gave him extensive interests elsewhere , notably in Lincolnshire and East Anglia . |
| 21 | can I say that it gives me particular pleasure to introduce Steven not least , because Steven Hughes is one of our colleagues in parliament who does a fantastic job for the trade union movement . |
| 22 | The presence of maids obviates any need for husbands to undertake traditionally female tasks and so , while a woman following her career does challenge a husband 's machismo in the sense that it gives her some independence ( both economically and socially ) , it does not do so in the sense of changing his role in the home . |
| 23 | Do n't forget that it gives us another chance to make progress in Europe this season ; success for Linfield and of course Crusaders may yet lift us away from the bottom of the ladder and give us a chance of avoiding those detested preliminary rounds . |
| 24 | Opposition Sajudis members objected , without effect , to the timing of the election on the grounds that it gave them inadequate time for preparation . |
| 25 | Hatton was so impressed by his bad boys that he gave them colourful 1930s ‘ punk rock ’ pseudonyms — Alf Artful , Billy Dustup and Reggie Smashem — which are no more suggestive of obedience and docility than other pre-war descriptions of brawls , affrays , legless drunks , or street robbers armed with sand-bags and cut-throat razors . |
| 26 | erm no what happened was that he gave me some bones that were far too big for the dogs . |
| 27 | Anyway , there is no hint that he gave her any encouragement at all . |
| 28 | I do n't know what his name was , but I was only a little kid like , you know We , we sung that He give us half a crown each , He said do you know on , on the I said oh yes . |
| 29 | Under his guidance , Parliament House was transformed from a nineteenth-century warren into a modern court-house and nothing gave him greater pleasure than to explore , and share with others , its secrets and treasures . |
| 30 | He was no respecter of persons or institutions or ideas just because they were vested with a brief authority , and nothing gave him more pleasure than to prick the bubble of pretension . |