Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 'd just like to add that included in the numbers that I gave you for Camco were not just redundancy costs , but costs of closures of sales offices , distribution networks and some other special one-time charges , so it 's not pure redundancy when you look at the numbers that I gave you earlier on . |
| 32 | I 'd just like to add that included in the numbers that I gave you for Camco were not just redundancy costs , but costs of closures of sales offices , distribution networks and some other special one-time charges , so it 's not pure redundancy when you look at the numbers that I gave you earlier on . |
| 33 | Because there were , there were easily three lists of influence on referrals that you need to be attuned to , that I gave you in that one erm praise , give a bit of praise to my wife because all I 'm proud of crafty , I thought , you know , why did n't you say that was a beautiful brief . |
| 34 | And we saw that in the calculation that I gave you at the end of last week 's lecture . |
| 35 | Erm , I I really do n't want to add anything else , other than the summary , erm , that I gave you on Appendix One , Chairman , but if you move over to Appendix Two for a start , erm , this first of all , relates only to our A T T in and we hope in future to improve this sort of information in the other employee groups . |
| 36 | The sheet that I gave you . |
| 37 | The uncertainty in the number that I gave you , about fifteen to eighteen billion years , is not in any sense an error due to inaccuracies of measurements of the rate at which the universe is currently expanding , but there are systematic differences of opinion about how one should calibrate the expansion rate , because people have different means of measuring the distance from us of the most luminous objects . |
| 38 | Not that I gave it serious thought . |
| 39 | He 's trying to make out that I gave it to him when I gave him a spoonful of that … stuff … |
| 40 | ‘ And he just stood there , ’ Emlyn concluded , ‘ looking so desperate that I gave us both an enormous gin and tonic ! ’ |
| 41 | All the same , heavy coughing always meant the possibility of water on the lungs which in turn could lead to pneumonia , so I gave her an injection of vitamin K , to thicken the blood , a sleeping pill , some linctus which contained a tiny amount of morphine , and also told her , ‘ Take one of these pills every morning for a week . ’ |
| 42 | I could see that she was scowling and stiffening into a Mark 2 temper , so I gave her an encouraging smile — which raised her , as I expected , to a Mark 3 . |
| 43 | ‘ Apparently , her cat had very bad plaque on its teeth and she was really concerned , so I gave her some advice and Amy has been in touch ever since . |
| 44 | There were a lot of young drunks staggering about , too — most at that noisy and unattractive stage where they might want to be your pal or pick a fight or just throw up on you , so I gave them a wide berth . |
| 45 | I went around being nice to children for a while , being a sort of modern Pied Piper , but I learnt that they 're a manipulative lot and crazy for money , literally crazy for it , so I gave them the elbow . |
| 46 | I was scared of them but I was n't going to let them get away so I gave them a good run for their money . |
| 47 | ‘ So I gave him a clip across the back and told him ‘ No ! ’ |
| 48 | His Spanish was almost non-existent , and he did not know how to study a foreign language , so I gave him lessons . |
| 49 | After half an hour I was still waiting , so I gave him an experimental pull and the hook came back minus the barbel . |
| 50 | ‘ Well he needed a refill so I gave him a hand to push his hand cart into Berkeley last night . |
| 51 | But Mary was out so I gave him the letter and began to tell him about the trouble at home . |
| 52 | That means he thought Maureen was his mother , so I gave him to her . |
| 53 | Brian needed to shit so I gave him a plastic bag and then left it in the bathroom . |
| 54 | He kept stealing Nigel 's food , so I gave him a bowl of his own every day . ’ |
| 55 | It seemed she expected an answer , so I gave it . |
| 56 | I thought that I was being stupid , so I gave it up . |
| 57 | There 's at least one track from all eight albums , and two tracks are from a live album , so I gave it to a wonderful guy called Jonathan Downs from the Fan Club , who knows an awful lot that I 'd forgotten myself , or never even knew ! |
| 58 | I glanced quickly at it but found it too difficult to understand , so I gave it back . |
| 59 | But there was not time to prepare this seminar , so I gave it myself , with one of my graduate students repeating my words . |
| 60 | ‘ But it was too much hard work and sacrifice , so I gave it up when I was sixteen . |