Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] give [pron] [art] " in BNC.

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1 What would Fen say if she gave him a truthful answer , told him that Hugh had done her a good turn , jilted her before she could make the most dreadful mistake of her life ?
2 I already had permission to search all the surrounding fields , so I waited until the field was harvested before I gave it a thorough going over with my detector .
3 He astounded his American masters by demanding that they give him a more worthwhile job or he would be on his way home .
4 After being swamped by people demanding that we give them the freebie SEAL course , we have , after long and difficult nights of deliberation , come to a decision .
5 She says that they gave them every assistance possible .
6 Erm yes three pictures that you might like to sell if you give me a price for them .
7 But Basil encouraged and even found some tiny portion of my painting which could be developed though he agreed that I might copy more easily than imagine and he gave me a mounted butterfly to draw .
8 What would you do if I gave you the jade ?
9 Do you think if I , do you think if I gave him a fright , s see the , time he says he 's going off to his granny 's and I say away you go , and my mam says she 's not taking him .
10 Bill thought I 'd died on him the other night cos I was , you know , me breathing and everything , and then all of a sudden I must 've relaxed for a bit and not needed to breathe and he give me a shock he says God I thought you were dead .
11 But he complains that I give him the impression that I am holding back and am not fully committed .
12 Then she said I could look and she gave me a piece of cloth with a few coins in it which my mother had saved for me — and the ring .
13 So he leaves them in a room where the locks open if you give them a threatening look . ’
14 His eyes opened and he gave me a weak smile .
15 * So I 've been a bad boy at times but they reckon I ca n't walk out on a job if I 'm in the Jungle and Matt 's temperamental which means he does n't normally work unless they give him a hamper full of white powder but he seems to have kicked it and there are n't too many dealers swinging through the trees like Tarzan out here .
16 Bacteriologists immediately recognised that it gave them a unique opportunity to study the evolutionary processes governing bacterial resistance — as a synthetic antibiotic it could not be influenced by preexisting resistance genes .
17 You ask how they know and they give you a vague description about the pelvis , etc. etc. , and you go away not altogether satisfied with the explanations .
18 Just tell him what we want him to give us , you know if he gave us the advance nod on something then we could either you know deal it exclusive or we 'll put it all round , you know , whichever they prefer .
19 In the sense that you 've got no control over your portfolio at all , and it 's just invested and they give you a statement .
20 She comes up to the house and starts bellowing , and just will not stop until you give her a cuddle !
21 She has got in ( and out of ) problems with drugs , alcohol and a quasi-religious cult : ’ I was brainwashed and I gave them an enormous amount of money , ’ she says with a shrug .
22 Tenderness is just something that women like because it gives them the upper hand .
23 Lung are never short of ideas , but their appeal is seriously limited because they give us a small taste of everything on their creative menu but seldom enough of one thing to really satisfy .
24 I guess that it gave her a sense of independence and allowed her personality , which was fairly dominant , to develop .
25 I 'm not comfortable but I suppose if I gave it a go I would get used to it .
26 I do n't think there is any question about that , and I feel like we gave him a good shot at staying alive .
27 Right , the problem is that I ca n't seem to get through on the telephone , I phoned and her secretary came back and said you 've to phone and she gave me a guy 's name like and I got a number for him so I phoned it , ah he works in our Edinburgh office I phoned the Edinburgh office .
28 you can write down these words , that would then be given you a clue things that you could be saying to your customers , where , right , if you start thinking about the job that you 're doing and I give you the word where , right you think of the number of times you can use the word where , with a customer , right
29 Addicts do n't stop what they 're doing because someone gives them a talking to .
30 I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all .
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