Example sentences of "and [pron] gives [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we all stick together and no-one gives them anything , they 'll soon be starving hungry themselves . |
| 2 | But if you imagine when you were about this high and someone gives you a ball to kick and you you fall over and you , Right I 'm not trying that again . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | Rhyme , measure , and the turning of verses , which is indispensable and which gives them so much vigour , are analogous to the hidden symmetry , to the equilibrium at once wise and inspired , which governs the meeting or separation of lines and spaces , the echoes of color , etc. ’ poetic painting was Delacroix 's preference , but ‘ David 's picture of Leonidas at Thermopolae is masculine and vigorous prose , I admit ’ . |
| 5 | Last : a solid form of wood , plastic or metal on which a boot or shoe is built , and which gives its shape to the boot or shoe . |
| 6 | And it is just that : a point of view , a vision , put forward through a fine prose style , that gives the work of Frazer a position above that of other scholars of equal erudition and perhaps greater ingenuity , and which gives him an inevitable and growing influence over the contemporary mind . |
| 7 | This is part of the life that we have created , and which gives us pleasure , support and autonomy . |
| 8 | And who gives them the right to fire off questions such as ‘ Would you like to make canned food more nutritious ? ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But , given that there is government money available for training , the local community should have more say about what type of training is needed and who gives it . |
| 11 | ‘ The wave is my lover and she gives me the ultimate orgasm . ’ |
| 12 | Because I am 84 and live alone , she also pops in every morning and evening to ensure I am all right , and she gives me a bath once a week . |
| 13 | So I see her on leaves , and she gives me every so often a new MCC tie ! ’ |
| 14 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 15 | a Chinese girl she 's living in it , in a kind of a real dive of loft thing to do her art and she gives him the odd painting instead of paying rent . |
| 16 | You give the assistant £10 and she gives you £1.30 change . |
| 17 | She 's going she 's looking at you and you go , come here , you take a step further and she gives you a dirty look and then she waits until you 're that close and then she jumps ! |
| 18 | he says if you just say has the money gone in , he 'll tell you , yeah , and she gives you your bank account number |
| 19 | ‘ Arnold left her all the money in the world and she gives us the sort of barbecue we threw for our friends in Haywards Heath . ’ |
| 20 | Nicky loves it when Squeak cleans her , right , my rats and she gives it and Nicky 's getting all and there 's Squeak going |
| 21 | I mean , everybody took loads of everything in those days but if you have an incredible tour schedule and you can find a way of having extra energy , which you can get with cocaine , you overdo it if you have n't ever had it before in such huge quantities , and you 're that big , and girls come to the dressing room afterwards , and everybody gives you free packets , and suddenly you 're everybody 's pal . |
| 22 | Jean the whole point about it is I gave him I , I gave him a thousand pound worth of work and one fella , a young fella ah Raymond look at that , and he gives him twenty off the drink for a year and after the year |
| 23 | And he gives him the option , he offers to him the the right to redeem . |
| 24 | The mutual understanding is that they give him their votes , and he gives them his services , always seeking to prove that he is at the very least as obliging and as diligent as the other " TDs and would-be TDs in his constituency . |
| 25 | And he gives them er , a magic |
| 26 | At Christmas I give Otley my turkey and he gives me his Brussels sprouts . |
| 27 | And he gives me a look of a kind that I do n't altogether like . |
| 28 | Well , you know , practically , the governor or the head you see , he knows what he 's got ta work , but erm , I , I know because the lads do n't , but he generally tells them well I wan na work so and so and he gives me a bit of paper with the horses names on wants galloping . |
| 29 | I hold out my hand for the hat and he gives it to me . |
| 30 | And he gives it to him ! |