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

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1 I thank the Minister for delivering every one of the pledges that he gave us in Committee .
2 Yeah , but he did n't need the modulator so he gave it to because he 's got a monitor , right ?
3 And he pulls out another container of peace and he gives it to somebody else , that is n't how it happens .
4 ‘ If you 've got a pen I 'll read the directions as they gave them to the family . ’
5 You asked for Operation Cuckoo to be your personal responsibility and I gave it to you .
6 When I first got it in the I was a bit , well it do n't sound too hard , bit down hard , but then again they were in a rush , I said there 's your present and I gave it to them , and they unwrapped it and me mum says oh come on we 'll be late for the club , cos they were getting free drinks at the pub , oh she , she did n't even want to look at it , I said oh , and she looked at it
7 I can give the hon. Gentleman the undertaking — it is of the sort that I gave him in Committee — that I believe that many things should be done with the extra resources that we shall have , and in the context of administrative matters the care of records is relevant .
8 She looked to him for a lead and he gave it to her .
9 No , that is from the computer but he gave it to me because he uses the monitor .
10 That is what the greenbelt is actually there for , and if you have it there for that purpose , as I said yesterday , the necessary corollary is that you have additional provision beyond it , and I ca n't resist to offer Mr Wincup some support , I 'm sure one piece of evidence that he gave you about the letter from the Parish Council , he 's probably already replied to that Parish Council saying , as you 're in the York greenbelt have no fear , all the Selby needs will pass straight across your heads and land somewhere else .
11 Do n't worry if you ca n't do it if you ca n't any of these any of these exercises that I give you by the way it 's not like homework it 's just for you to play with them to get the do them at your own pace .
12 And we saw that in the calculation that I gave you at the end of last week 's lecture .
13 ‘ Yes , ’ said Bartlemas , ‘ we witnessed the will and he gave it to us to look after it … ’
14 You 'd like mink if somebody gave it to you .
15 Elaine did n't register my birth before she gave me to Mum , and no one seemed to know anything about her , or where she was from .
16 I 'd just like to add that included in the numbers that I gave you for Camco were not just redundancy costs , but costs of closures of sales offices , distribution networks and some other special one-time charges , so it 's not pure redundancy when you look at the numbers that I gave you earlier on .
17 The hand that he gave her in greeting was ice-cold and his expression grave , but his appearance was as immaculate as ever and his bearing composed and dignified .
18 Evette , she brought er a green thing A round thing and she gave it to one of the ladies , I can not remember which one .
19 He held out his hand and she gave it to him , watching him as he put it to his lips , her eyes fixed in an almost mesmerised stare .
20 I wondered if he would let me turn the handle if I gave it to him .
21 Credit assessment — judging the profitable amount of credit to give , in what form and who to give it to — acquired new significance with the social changes that came with and after the First World War , and the even greater upheaval with the much bigger population after the Second .
22 Would I one day show people this jacket and say that it had been a lovely afternoon in Central Park when he gave it to me and , in closing , would I say that as he disappeared into the trees , I never saw Oscar Wilde again ?
23 I hold out my hand for the hat and he gives it to me .
24 And the pensioners go down to this bungalow free , and it 's in lovely spot and we gave something like two thousand pound for it .
25 Until eighteen months ago Wiltshire was the most undermanned force in this country , and that 's not our figures , that was the Home Office formula which produced that , and because of that eighteen months ago the Home Secretary actually granted this force an extra sixty- seven policemen and he gave none to anybody else .
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