Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Old people are no fools , and can easily be hurt ; so however many things you have on your mind to be done when you get home , never leave them feeling that you have given them time that you have grudgingly spared . |
| 32 | ‘ All the money that Sheikh Osman has used in the past few weeks in his war against the Copts is money that you have given him . ’ |
| 33 | Try not to click with mouse and type on the keyboard while Windows is frozen because when it comes back it acts on all of the commands that you have given it — so apparently switching from a state of deep sleep to rapid activity that can look like another stage in a serious crash ! |
| 34 | Make us more of a church body , Lord , using the gifts that you have given us in service for you and for one another , and learning form one another in humility . |
| 35 | Our thoughts are with the circles of family and friends that you have given us , and we pray for those we meet , our neighbours , the people we work with , those we encounter in shops and businesses . |
| 36 | Do you want me to , have you got everything that you need to give me ? |
| 37 | I 'm just gon na ring up cos mum could n't get through yesterday so she 's given me her credit card number to order things . |
| 38 | Okay so you 've given you 've given us erm the same company as erm that mm that may present a problem with us . |
| 39 | Politicians do n't have time to read screeds , so you have to give them short , pithy things to look at , We were doing all this anyway , of course , but the chaps at Barton , including Andy , are working on it much more effectively since we were able to say definitely that the DTI civil servants were agin them . |
| 40 | Willie ‘ O ’ is a bit stronger and a lot younger than Mick so you have to give him a slight edge when it comes to form and fitness . |
| 41 | But once they 're there , once you 've given them headroom , they seem pretty determined to stick around . |
| 42 | We read the , read the agreements differently to what they did but he 'd lean towards the drivers , conductors and he gave away a lot of what had tried to erm stop them from having because they were n't really entitled to it but he saw differently and gave it away and course once you 've given it away you , no way of retracting it , but then came in and , well , I mean he was a real transport man , his , his vision and his ideas were really good and he made it what it is today . |
| 43 | It 's once you start giving them out , that 's what causes the problem . |
| 44 | However , to my question : will your family be safe from the Church once you have given them Inky 's — Aspirant 's body ? ’ |
| 45 | ‘ Let Me show you how to live it , ’ but then once you have given Him your life He becomes distant ; you have to struggle to touch Him . |
| 46 | We 're so sure about the reliability of our washing machines that we 've given them a full 5-year parts guarantee . |
| 47 | That 's an assurance that we 've given them . |
| 48 | O was only one of the many names that we had given him , but it was the one that had lasted . |
| 49 | But it is not against original over-used phrases that we wish to give you the |
| 50 | Er the goods that what , not goods that we want to give them like junk food and ludicrous fashions , to find out what it is that they want this of equipment and no , and do n't forget the know-how , I mean we are , we have a hell of a Know-how in this country which is not being used . |
| 51 | Sounds an exciting trip , really fabulous trip , and it will mean of course , seeing you will be li live on air , that we have to give you a little audition , so the finalists , have to be prepared to do an audition with me , live on air , just before Christmas . |
| 52 | It could be extended to look even longer , and presented with the words that we wanted to give you ‘ a small gift ’ or a gift ‘ big enough for two ’ . |
| 53 | On top of all that Copper has always had a dust allergy and he got very congested so we had to give him powders to keep his lungs clear . |
| 54 | And it means nothing to the layman , two Greek words meaning ‘ grey ’ and ‘ marrow ’ , so we 've given it an easier name , infantile paralysis , which at least is English . ’ |
| 55 | They are now threatening to withdraw compensation from us although they have given us no written guarantee that our lands are free from contamination ’ , he said in 1976 . |
| 56 | So many returners admit to stage fright at the beginning of a re-entry programme , only to find that the expectations of managers and colleagues are much more realistic than they have given them credit for . |
| 57 | A decline in activity may now come about if both accord the region less strategic value than they have given it hitherto . |
| 58 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 59 | It 's a compliment in itself that they 've given me the chance … ’ |
| 60 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |