Example sentences of "but [pers pn] give [pers pn] the " in BNC.

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1 I think I said it was a 6-iron or maybe a 7 , but I gave him the yardage and he hit his shot right at the hole .
2 I was utterly baffled , but I gave you the benefit of every doubt , which by this time added up to a couple of thousand .
3 She has n't , of course , but she gives me the landlord 's name .
4 Folly doubted if she would care what Luke got up to , but she gave her the flowers none the less .
5 But he gave me the car … . ’
6 I do n't quite know why , but he gave me the impression , without uttering more than a few words , that he had much more than superficial knowledge , and an amusing touch of the sardonic as well .
7 When he and his brothers left this world , I could not go with him , but he gave me the gift of never growing old .
8 General Robert Schweitzer , who told this story to the congressional lawyers , was a trifle envious that after 58 years of daily Mass and ‘ desperate messages to the Almighty ’ he himself had never been woken up at night ‘ with lights on the wall ’ and a vision of saving Nicaragua ; he was not sure Ms Studeley had either , but he gave her the benefit of the doubt .
9 Police were told and tailed Newall but he gave them the slip and fled from Britain on a yacht he inherited from his parents , a court in Gibraltar heard .
10 He came in with the ideas , give the drivers and conductors everything they asked for whereby my training had always been to only give them what they were really entitled to , not give them anything extra but he gave them the earth and that erm did n't sort of go very well for the new Manager who came in , he had a lot of undoing to do there , that this fella had given away , in his six or seven weeks there .
11 No it does n't , but it gives them the means to promote it .
12 They use the idea for designing the interiors of buildings and so on ; essentially it 's a toy in its current form , but it gives you the idea .
13 But it gives you the peace of mind to know that , if the worst should happen , you could cope with the situation .
14 That 's a bit extreme but it gives you the idea .
15 Not only did this save the horses the pull up the hill through the village , but it gave them the occasion for one more glimpse of Tamar and the children , who stood on the steps , waving .
16 ‘ I ca n't explain , but it gave me the most terrible feeling .
17 Quite unwittingly you played right into my hands that night , Aurora — I knew you had n't been taking drugs , but it gave me the perfect excuse for sticking around .
18 ‘ You came to in the middle of it , unfortunately for you , but it gave me the opportunity to make a superficial examination . ’
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