Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] to give [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I promised to give it the fifty-one hours , so that 's , let me see , forty-five left . |
| 2 | Sometimes he grunted at me as if trying to get me to say something , but always I had to give him the same classroom answer : ‘ Ich verstehe nicht . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Are you going to give me the macho caveman act ? |
| 4 | At Parcelforce , we aim to give you the best possible service and to be fair in all our dealings with you . |
| 5 | At Royal Mail , we aim to give you the best possible service and to be fair in all our dealings with you . |
| 6 | While Sarazen felt ‘ the biggest heel in the world ’ , he also knew he had to give himself the best chance of winning the Open ; and that , regrettably , could not be achieved with his old caddie Dan . |
| 7 | For several years he has been a helper , and having decided to return to Birmingham where he had a distinguished career as a teacher of English , he resolved to give us the greater part of the library , collected over many years by himself and his late wife . |
| 8 | Must remember that phrase : he could see it had struck and it struck him too : he paused to give it the silent applause of a mute punctuation . |