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 . |