Example sentences of "[adj] and give [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We try to rotate all the jobs on site between the eight of us — it makes life more interesting and gives us more flexibility . |
| 2 | I will return and tell Prince Rainbow that the lung 's guard were foolish and gave me such treatment as one might expect from a crowd of flea-bitten louts . " |
| 3 | As a lock , if your prop asks for a special effort at a scrummage you just hollow your back , get your feet right and give it all you 've got . |
| 4 | He talks enthusiastically about ‘ getting back to some real police work ’ in ‘ the real world ’ , even though his responsibilities as Divisional Commander will be mainly administrative and give him little or no contact with the ‘ dangerous classes ’ . |
| 5 | And they couldn't 've well for example with taxation , they could 've erm not taxed the rich peasants at all and then just put all their erm their sort of focus upon the poor peasants and got their income through them and also with land , they could 've just not given any land to poor peasants who were inefficient and given it all to the rich peasants and really gone for a capitalist state . |