Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] give [pers pn] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have asked that we give them a similar quantity from each department . |
| 2 | Although they give me a good start for next issue . |
| 3 | But while the large number of coins means that they give us a large quantity of information , their small size and the consequent brevity of their inscriptions greatly restricts the level of interpretation we can make from them compared with , say , a lengthy edict of a Roman emperor fully inscribed on stone . |
| 4 | he 's after something , h his apprenticeship so they give him a thousand pound |
| 5 | And er I so so I brought her and her three friends that she 'd run , chummed about with them and I give them a good talking to for about an hour . |
| 6 | The penis stirs close to me , and I give it a wet nose . |
| 7 | The only way people will trust me is if I give them a signed piece of paper with my address on . ’ |
| 8 | Do you think you can manage the walk back to Three Colt Street , if I give you a helping hand ? ’ |
| 9 | If your child takes a peculiar liking to washing up , and you give it a sweet every time , it will start to get suspicious and realise that washing up actually is n't as much fun as it thought . |
| 10 | The interview goes well until you give him a friendly pat on the back … |
| 11 | Not until you give me a few answers and do me the courtesy of telling the truth . ’ |
| 12 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 13 | If you give me a hundred and then I , that 's my hundred from |
| 14 | But if you give me a blank sheet of paper and put a question , I 'm not really gon na tell you what you should include and what you should n't , yeah ? |
| 15 | She went up with little lad and he were watching it and he says I would n't mind this , well Arthur says I 'd al he 'd already taped it off telly and so he says I 'll tell you what you can have it if you give me a blank |
| 16 | It 's funny you know , if you give them a long name |
| 17 | It 's easy when you become attached to birds to think of them in human terms , particularly if you give them a human name . |
| 18 | So he leaves them in a room where the locks open if you give them a threatening look . ’ |
| 19 | We welcome busy people to our home , and we give them a pleasant place to work in . ’ |
| 20 | It is possible to live with wild animals , if we give them a little space . |
| 21 | The majority of the people in this town is lovely people , the council and the police are first class and they give us a fair crack of the whip all the way . |
| 22 | The majority of the people in this town is lovely people , the council and the police are first class and they give us a fair crack of the whip all the way . |
| 23 | You ask how they know and they give you a vague description about the pelvis , etc. etc. , and you go away not altogether satisfied with the explanations . |
| 24 | When you 're a child they say , ‘ You know you should n't do that ’ , and they give you a bloody good rollicking and leave it at that — they try to terrify you . |
| 25 | Because er while I 've had wedding cake from people and and they give you a little bit and I 've said to you have n't I , well I would n't have bothered giving anybody this . |
| 26 | I do n't , cos it ai n't polite with strangers , but I give her a real nice smile instead . |
| 27 | Lung are never short of ideas , but their appeal is seriously limited because they give us a small taste of everything on their creative menu but seldom enough of one thing to really satisfy . |
| 28 | The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls was therefore very important , since they give us a Hebrew text of much of the Old Testament about a thousand years older than anything we had before . |
| 29 | 6 League Games have been played as to date ( 22.06.93 ) , with 1 draw , 2 wins and 3 losses ( we have to give them some sort of chance before we give them a good thrashing ) . |