Example sentences of "[pers pn] give a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 'm a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and er because I 'm by background an electronics engineer and I was at a meeting there where a chap was giving a talk on design express lifts you know at Northampton and the Chairman stood up and introduced doctor whoever he was sat down turned round to me in the second row and said could you give a vote of thanks at the end . |
| 32 | Mama , wo n't you give a luncheon for my friends ? |
| 33 | Tell me Clare , how did you give an idea of eternity to your kids at the convent ? |
| 34 | And can you give an indication of how quickly these things could be ordered in an emergency ? |
| 35 | If you give a list of absolute negatives , people wonder what pleasures they have left . |
| 36 | One is the news byte , which can be anything between fifteen and thirty seconds , and that is basically asking you to give a comment on one particular aspect of a story . |
| 37 | You know the situations where you 're in a I do n't know a meeting in some presentation and somebody wants you to give a vote of thanks have you ever had that , I had that Birmingham University one time . |
| 38 | ‘ For the moment , farewell , but remember I will ask you to give an account of your stewardship here . ’ |
| 39 | She traces the roots back in time ; she covers some of the more obvious ground ( with chapters on Happy Mondays , the Stone Roses etc ) ; she rights some wrongs ; she flirts with some myths ; she gives a platform to some of the previously unsung instigators ; she dumps a few reputations ; and , though imperfect , it 's as reliable a guide to current Manchester music as you are likely to get . |
| 40 | Freya 's confusion and bewilderment are very apparent in this letter , and she gives a sense of having ‘ fallen into ’ anorexia , in a strikingly different way to Alison ( in the last chapter ) , who has a much more determined , almost deliberate approach . |
| 41 | Telling a tale … professional storyteller Liz Weir is surrounded by enthralled pupils of St John 's School , Bebington , as she gives a demonstration of her skills . |
| 42 | We also see on page one , three , four and this is something you also mentioned Mr that if you 've got certain costs they will be covered and you gave a number of examples , one of them you said , er , we were covered by insurance |
| 43 | Erm your statement of purpose you , you er you , you gave over and at that point , you know , I 've had a policy for thirteen years or whatever it is why , why I have n't seen somebody before erm and again you , you gave an answer to that erm which , which actually satisfied there was n't any , any comeback on it erm you mentioned industry and so on and that was , that was , that was f that was okay . |
| 44 | and when I see the buses now running around , they seem to run everywhere I do n't on earth what kind of running board they 've got because in my day it was so well regulated that erm you just recorded certain intermediate stages and I quote Witton and Rushmere you get , used to get Witton Terminus , Norwich Road Bridge , Sherrington Road , Barret Corner , Electric House and you gave an indication of the time that those buses should be passing those times . |
| 45 | She gave a smile of relief . |
| 46 | She gave a shake of her shoulders and then very carefully she placed her mug on the tray . |
| 47 | She gave a sigh of resignation and turned away , avoiding his eyes . |
| 48 | Glad that the conversation had moved to a wide field , she gave a sigh of relief . |
| 49 | Dropping her bags down on the hall floor , she gave a sigh of relief as she shook the raindrops from her hair , and eased her thin jacket from her shoulders . |
| 50 | When she woke in the morning , it was to clear blue skies , and she gave a sigh of pleasure . |
| 51 | Next second she gave a scream of rage as she was hooked by an eleven-year-old cousin , who then proceeded to whip the ball away down field . |
| 52 | As she turned away from the house , into the lane , she gave a shudder of relief . |
| 53 | She acknowledged this with a raised thumb , but when she showed me the assortment of charts on the bed-table pushed against the wall she gave a thumbs-down over his fluid-intake . |
| 54 | Though primarily a research botanist and unwilling to be distracted by teaching , she gave a course on the ancestry of the angiosperms at the University of London in 1907 . |
| 55 | Was his vanity really so overpowering that he actually believed she gave a damn about him anyway ? |
| 56 | She gave a burst of shrill laughter . |
| 57 | She gave a snort of derision , and snatched her hand away . |
| 58 | She gave a gasp at the insult . |
| 59 | When he turned his head to look at Turakina she gave a gasp of annoyance and let go of the half-plaited queue . |
| 60 | One pulse beat higher and harder and faster than any other , and as Damian touched it she gave a gasp of shock , staring at him , and he arched above her , the expression on his hard face making the blood roar in her ears . |