Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | What do you think specific I give up you started , you started so you can finish . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sorry I gave you such a rotten tea . ’ |
| 3 | " I m sorry I gave you such a fright . |
| 4 | Erm sorry I gave them all away I 'm afraid mhm yeah so er I 'm tempted to start rolling again in a moment so would you like to make an announcement yeah ? |
| 5 | But I think it may be more appropriate if I actually met with say the management committee as opposed to myself yes I 'm quite happy to do that to meet any individual or group who feel they have some concerns they wish to discuss and I give that I give that assurance this evening . |
| 6 | The Dempster was called into court by the ringing of a bell and recited the sentence as recorded by the Clerk of the Court adding " This I give for doom . " |
| 7 | After Dame Sirith has agreed to help , Wilekin pays her : ( " Take , here , twenty shillings : this I give you in reward to buy sheep and swine for yourself . " ) |
| 8 | This I gave to Shawcraft . |
| 9 | For this I gave them about 30p , which is rather a lot , & since then they have been running up to me when they see me , offering to polish up my briefcase etc . |
| 10 | In Chapter 12 I give additional clarifications about my use of the word " structure " and try to explain why a structural approach is incompatible with a description of the world in terms of objects and attributes . |
| 11 | On the night of 20–21 April 1808 I gave birth to a son . |
| 12 | I just came to make myself au fait with the situation and to garner some information in return for some I give you . ’ |
| 13 | ON OCTOBER 2 I gave a talk on the British monarchy at an astrological conference in Oslo . |
| 14 | In Chapter 2 I gave a breakdown of the five minimum requirements of the graph search mechanism . |
| 15 | At this she gave off a pulse of hesitation . |
| 16 | Some you gave me wi when I changed . |
| 17 | I am afraid she gives way to her feelings more than she ought to do . ’ |
| 18 | A spokeswoman said : ‘ It was a wonderful donation and because it was so generous we gave the Leas the chance to name the two dogs . ’ |
| 19 | A spokeswoman for The Guide Dog for the Blind Centre at Middlesbrough said : ‘ It was a wonderful donation and because it was so generous we gave the Leas the chance to name the two dogs . ’ |
| 20 | But in the last minute of the first half they gave away a penalty for going over the top at a ruck and Aled Williams , the Swansea outside-half , made no mistake from 20 yards to establish a 10–0 lead . |
| 21 | Babies should have their nappies changed regularly because when they become wet they give off heat do n't they ? |
| 22 | The reason we built it on this particular spot is this is the ash flurry from the boilers from the bottom there of the er power station and er it 's contents of slurry dried out , dried out and graded , well once nice and flat like this it gives the bird an ideal opportunity to at high tide and they can see around , there 's no vegetation , it 's very bad ground , and er , that is load of ducks , a good numbers of er oystercatchers , they do n't sometimes , which is really nice and so easy to count them now cos when the tide is out and you 've got the , the mud flats of course they 're spread out , now they 're nicely condensed down here , so it 's great , great little position for us you know , that 's all courtesy of the bottom of the boiler , you know , you know , give us this nice |
| 23 | By this he gives clear evidence of his innate greatness of soul . |
| 24 | When the Cid heard this he gave command to store all his Castles , and had them well repaired . |
| 25 | While doing this he gave a wonderful imitation of his coal merchant and his wife . |
| 26 | You will recall that when we talked about the libido theory , I said that there were erm different one of the reasons why Freud had to introduce the libido theory was he wanted to get away from the narrow biological reproductive concept of sex to do with genitals and reproduction which is of course he 'd want to expand it to include psychological never seen before er or never seen before so clearly , such as erm love of the self and , and this he gave the name narcissism , well he did n't actually , somebody else invented it not long before and he took it over very quickly . |
| 27 | Despite all this he gave me one term to show some improvement , I never really shed the " below average " tag at the Halton style of academy . |
| 28 | The tide was so high it gave the impression of the train being waterborne . |
| 29 | To some it gave help in sickness and consolation in poverty . |
| 30 | In this poem , as in 85 , the Poet claims that his Muse is ‘ tongue-tied ’ ; in 76 , 102 , 103 and 105 he gives conflicting reasons , all ingenious , why he writes such repetitive or uninspired poetry . |