Example sentences of "[verb] give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , from Highgate has said if the good lord wanted cats to fly he would 've given them wings , it 's cruel doing things like that to animals . |
| 2 | I mean they could 've given them a wee , a wee two bedroom around our w our way rightly . |
| 3 | Erm not any more I do n't I 've given them all away hello , are there any spare handouts in the room ? |
| 4 | No but you were saying before that had it worked it would 've given them a problem . |
| 5 | It was , Be blessings on thee , I mean and may God bless you for the help you 've given me . |
| 6 | see you 've given her the |
| 7 | It would 've given us another month to play with at least . |
| 8 | Sorry that was squared yeah so the differential of that would 've given us twice er would have given us twice that . |
| 9 | no good it 's three times too much so he must have started off with X cubed over three and that would 've given us one third of three X squared |
| 10 | As a standalone machine I would 've given it a fourth star . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd 've given it to you ; I was n't holding out . |
| 12 | Roger I 'd 've given it you a lot quicker if you 'd given me a list of jobs to work on . |
| 13 | You had a choice of an eight or a three I had two jacks and a king you chose the three , the two turned up that would 've given you eight and a but you picked the three so that 'll give you more in the box as well an three hit your three hit your hand as well so |
| 14 | It reckons it is well placed given its behind-the-scenes work in helping to develop some important interoperability features for Unix : it also developed the Transparent Computing Facility for IBM 's AIX and a remote procedure call test and validation suite for the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 15 | Usually very very pessimistic and always look always look on the on the pessimistic side of things you know all that sort of stuff but you know they are a very important part of the group , you know given given their space to be like they are you know do n't take them too seriously remember their job is to criticise and their job is to pull things to pieces . |
| 16 | And truly it was no longer , as I had once thought , a matter of a star courting success by adopting the affectations of a prima donna , but of a man who has given himself up to a trance . |
| 17 | In the political parlance of 1992 , I suppose it might be said that Mr Platt has given himself a double whammy . |
| 18 | ‘ He has given himself a hard race , ’ said Josh Gifford , but if he recovers quickly the seven-year-old will go for the H and T Walker Chase at Ascot next weekend . |
| 19 | The Word was made flesh in Jesus Christ ; God has given himself to be understood in our terms and on our level ; and even in these terms and on that level it is the reality of God that is given for us to understand . |
| 20 | We we well we 'd love to be able to get get on with our job and er wi with far less interference than we receive at the moment but er when government insists on er on interfering to the extent it does an and there have been well I 've been reading recently so something like five hundred new powers the Education Secretary has given himself in the in over the last last few years . |
| 21 | An escaped prisoner who faces charges of disposing of the body of a Swindon man , has given himself up . |
| 22 | A civil servant by day he has given himself a mission : to show the rest of the world just what can be done in a glider . |
| 23 | It will appear mechanical , when plucked out of the huge and vital narrative flow , that Dostoevsky has given him ‘ a sickly dark yellow complexion ’ as a mark of his belonging to Petersburg . |
| 24 | David Lodge , whose experience as novelist , critic , and professor of English has given him many insights into the situation I am describing , provides in his recent novel Nice Work , a neat instance of the gap between students and teacher . |
| 25 | Odd-Knut has given him a hunting knife , and pointed him at the trees . |
| 26 | Odd-Knut has given him some eggs that turn out to be frozen . |
| 27 | His short visit has given him much information about the courses but , more importantly , he now has an intimate feeling of how these young men and women , drawn from all walks of life , are trained . |
| 28 | She too has given him confidence and relieved some of the loneliness of his position . |
| 29 | I guess that over the last six years television has given him only a quarter of her exposure . |
| 30 | Even so , striking on or soon after January 15th would help Mr Bush underline , for the benefit of critics at home and abroad , the clear legal authority the UN has given him for military action . |