Example sentences of "[conj] they give [pers pn] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they give me a good start for next issue . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | he 's after something , h his apprenticeship so they give him a thousand pound |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |