Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pron] give [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ricky was so furious with Perdita for deliberately sabotaging her scholarship that he gave her the sack . |
| 2 | His appearance in the Toyota World Match Play at Wentworth in October was his 17th in succession and it gave him the chance of winning the title for a record sixth time . |
| 3 | ‘ The wave is my lover and she gives me the ultimate orgasm . ’ |
| 4 | So it 's a very great honour and privilege for me to address you today because at the end it may be difficult for you to understand but when I return to South Africa , and forgive me for speaking personally I also realize the full meaning of the support of British trade unions and the labour movement and the churches because it was because of your political material and particularly in the case of the G M B , financial and material support that it gave us the means to do what some of us wanted to do about our country and our situation , and bring about change if we could peacefully . |
| 5 | On tonight 's match , Cooper said : ‘ There 's a lot at stake and it gives us the opportunity to put things right . ’ |
| 6 | Well I 'll never forget when we were younger , we had erm some Americans living across the road and they invited us er somehow I was in the kitchen , they were going to give me lunch and she gave me the most enormous |
| 7 | The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’ |
| 8 | But do n't call the law unless they give me the black spot , or if you see the seaman with one leg — he 's worse than any of them . ’ |
| 9 | We listened to the hon. Member for Derby , South when she gave us the present status of Beckett 's laws — a pledge to increase pensions and child benefit , to which the new manufacturing package has been added . |
| 10 | There was a slight delay as she read it and then her head slowly turned in my direction and she gave me the biggest grin I 'd ever seen . |
| 11 | To mark his disapproval of my doing so he gives me the wrong ticket and some change , of which the amount , as far as I can see , bears no relation to any previous transaction between us . |
| 12 | And I said I said so I told her the registration and she gave me the room number but she said . |
| 13 | But you can see that er for someone who has no , a wife who has no income and her husband 's paying twenty five percent or forty percent then by moving a , say er twenty thousand at erm well er whatever percentage to fill up these allowances er if you 're getting ten thousand or twenty thousand put , put it into the wife 's name that they give us the interest is then hers , if she has no other income it neatly can be swallowed up by the allowance . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Surely , do we know if we receive him and believe in his name and he gave us the power to become |
| 16 | Indeed , Eleanor Rathbone condemned what she viewed as the selfishness of middle class women who , having got ‘ all they wanted for themselves out of the women 's movement when it gave them the vote , the right to stand for Parliament and the local authorities , and to enter the learned professions ’ , then sat back . |
| 17 | about analysis or me giving them the dream and I have to sort of like get out for myself what |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 19 | Oh there was no such thing if they gave you the money , you might nip off . . |
| 20 | I wo n't have anything more to do with you lot till you give him the elbow . |
| 21 | She told Susan about her encounter when she gave her the humbugs , and the elder sister seemed interested for the first time that evening . |
| 22 | The Government must have thought that he was worth the money when they gave him the job and they must value his advice . |
| 23 | She declined There was something else she needed from the van so he gave her the keys . |
| 24 | Then I nearly fell over when Hywel walked in because I met him on the mountain and he gave me the eye . ’ |
| 25 | That gave Webb an easy catch and it gave him the time to see that Bath would have a man over if he ran the ball to the left . |
| 26 | ‘ But , until we do , you can make yourself useful by binding up this hole in my arm before I give you the pleasure of bleeding to death . ’ |