Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [conj] [pron] give [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 There are lots of ways to walk to Fort William if that 's what you fancy , except now one of them is littered with lots of wooden posts with painted thistles , and hundreds of people trudging about who never thought of walking to Fort William until someone gave them the West Highland Way guide book for their Christmas .
2 Thank you Chairman , erm I 'm delighted to be the last person to present a set of budget proposals as it gives me the opportunity to draw attention to some facts that seems to have been overlooked by the representatives of the other two groups .
3 We do have a money adviser erm specifically who works with erm tenants who are in rent arrears and who gives them advice on handling their financial problems .
4 I told him about the defenestration of Ramsey Everett and he gave me five hundred pounds .
5 I had found out that her name was Miss Vulcan and I gave her this information as well as telling her that Miss Vulcan had a brother named Freddie who visited her and that he was a little old man who wore a black cap on his head and sported a goatee beard .
6 on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its .
7 . I gi him a twenty pound note and he give me some change .
8 This was in connection with my RNR Sea Cadet duties but it gave me much more confidence on the navigational side of cutter service .
9 He was well placed in the cotton industry and it gave him a generous income ; therefore it had to take precedence , but the monotony of arriving at the same place at the same time every day now bored him as much as had the mechanical frenzy of the bobbins when he arrived .
10 Yeah under question things and they give you the answers in blue .
11 But in the Edwardian love story , Howards End , her co-star is Sir Anthony Hopkins and it gives her the chance to shrug off the Olivier/Leigh and Burton/Taylor labels she and Branagh have collected .
12 He gives you an ice cream and you give him a kiss " , that sort of thing .
13 Bruno , while coy about the details of the offer , said : ‘ Rock gave me his telephone number and I gave him mine .
14 So I went back to the lady doctor and she gave me a cream and some tablets .
15 That 's happened , I could n't get any one year I took the triplets to the erm Goose Hill coffee morning in the Town Hall and I gave them all money for the tombola and one of them won a Creme Egg
16 They enabled the sisters to honour their own privacy needs and they gave us a clear sense of personal identity .
17 If so , the arbitrator may make a separate recommendation to The Post Office that they give you an ‘ ex gratia ’ payment .
18 We sometimes drank small cups of China tea and he gave me colour prints of Chinese landscapes and mountain scenery at Christmas and the Chinese New Year .
19 Good do you remember a long time ago doing factor trees and I gave you three sixty to do ?
20 They showed this to Auntie Lou and she gave them a frame so that they could hang it in their bedroom , but they did n't look at it much .
21 ‘ We 're so sorry about what happened to poor old Goosie Lucy but she gave us no choice .
22 He really loved the hairdressing profession as it gave him a captive audience to bounce his latest jokes off .
23 Erm he wrote to Photo Gallery and asked them for er an exhibition date and they gave him one in nineteen ninety .
24 ‘ I said I would give him my pilot sunglasses if he gave me his weapon .
25 ‘ The crews have reported that they actually prefer the air system because it gives them more control over the trains as they come down the hill . ’
26 He retired after the last C E T and he gave me all his pens and stuff .
27 One gave her a gold ring and one gave her a little dog .
28 I 've spoken to Angela and Angela said , just alter the week numbers on the , on your P forty five , but as I 've just said to Neil if I do that , that is gon na throw it out for year end when I give you yo your green slip .
29 Gerry pointed out , however , that referees were not happy having Pushov and his interpreter stood on the goal line as it gave us an unfair advantage .
30 If you 're working at erm how far is it from here to New York and someone gives you an answer like this like What is it ?
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