Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [conj] [pron] give [pron] " 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 I told him about the defenestration of Ramsey Everett and he gave me five hundred pounds .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 ‘ We 're so sorry about what happened to poor old Goosie Lucy but she gave us no choice .
7 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 ?
8 The hon. Member for Foyle ( Mr. Hume ) has , much more eloquently than I could , told us of the damage that it does and the effect that it has on the young people of Northern Ireland because it gives them a future of either migration or unemployment .
9 This extravaganza was directed by Max Reinhart and it gave me my first experience as an impresario , for I was commissioned by the MGM office for Canada to ‘ organize the promotion ’ of the film in our area .
10 He hinted that she might even receive an honour from the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher if she gave her support .
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