Example sentences of "give [pron] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when you gallop them you put the rugs on and you walk them home quietly i if it 's a nice day like this , you give them a pick of grass in the paddock . |
| 2 | ‘ Give them a toot on the horn . ’ |
| 3 | My legs are warm and I give them a feel . |
| 4 | Give them a treat . |
| 5 | A 12-strong party of homeless men , who currently reside at the Fleetwood Hostel in Lancashire , were offered the chance to visit Sellafield to stimulate their interest in industry and give them a day out to remember . |
| 6 | I 've never seen the sort of breathtaking squalor I witnessed there but give them a day when their neighbourhood is shown to be worth the world running through it , gratefully accepting water and candy from them at the roadside , and it 's amazing the way mutual mistrust can disappear . |
| 7 | Give them a year off so they can recoup ’ . |
| 8 | women coming into their surgeries , highly strung and th the answer to their problems is , give them a tranquillizer and be done with them ! |
| 9 | It 's only good manners to make your guests feel at home and give them a go now and again , but Swindon were a little too kind just before half-time . |
| 10 | Ah I think it 's just erm y'know kind of erm type them out neatly and give them a go really erm |
| 11 | There 's only one thing , it might mean more part time jobs for college leavers and things if they go to work on a Sunday in the big stores and they did , give them a foot up to start a job , then get taken on you know as . |
| 12 | Oh read 'em out , give them a laugh , they probably do n't get Sky in Sweden or Norway . |
| 13 | Go there sometimes about four o'clock give them a feed out and then we used to I used to stay there in a small shelter there . |
| 14 | If you 're unsure of the kinds of things they sell or simply want to know more about the kind of service they provide , give them a call before paying them a visit . |
| 15 | that do explain a little bit about Abbey Life products and also have a copy of as well erm they might find that of help before I give them a call . |
| 16 | On the thirtieth of September er , a good friend of mine called me and said these people are interested in what you do , give them a call . |
| 17 | Er today a er an injured young black female cat found in Lincoln Street in the Baysford area if it 's yours seven eight four nine six five er give them a call at the R S P C A at Hyson Green . |
| 18 | When they stop I give them a clap , but no one else does . |
| 19 | And what they do , is they give them a couple of choices of bo , you know , hip joints to go for and the guy decides , the surgeon decides , does his job and then the kit goes back to the manufacturer again and then when the , another hospital orders it they make up a , another kit . |
| 20 | Fulcrum Technologies Inc , Ottawa , Canada reckons that it has the industry 's first suite of SQL-based tools that enable corporate information professionals to access text information and make it available throughout an organisation for use as a strategic resource : Fulcrum says SearchTools offer the first means by which corporate developers , working within an open client-server environment , can build text-retrieval applications for accessing large text applications and give them a way to integrate text-intensive data into existing corporate information management , image or database systems ; the tools feature an applications programming interface based on the SQL Access Group 's Call Level Interface ; the tools will initially be available for Microsoft Corp Visual Basic and Windows developers , as well as for C developers working in other environments , such as OS/2 and Unix ; initial Unix support will be under AIX/6000 , HP-UX and Solaris ; the SearchTools development kit starts at $7,500 per copy and the indexing and retrieval component , SearchServer , will be from $1,000 per user . |
| 21 | Try to focus on the positive , on what a scene did achieve rather than what it did n't ; give them a vocabulary for talking about the work . |
| 22 | Give them a stick and ball and it 's a different story . |
| 23 | Their scent markings help to familiarise them with their territory , and give them a sense of security . |
| 24 | After last year 's recession-strapped event , a bloc of disgruntled dealers asked organiser John Wilson to increase marketing , freeze booth prices and give them a voice in gallery selection . |
| 25 | Unless , of course , you give them a subsidy . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Give them a bow , Aurora . ’ |
| 27 | Government give them a grant ( i.e. ‘ new ’ industries ) , cut the rent and all the rest and once the period of , you know , free rent period , free taxes … they move out . |
| 28 | Give them a banner to enhance their chances and a good leader , and they can drive a hole right through most normal enemy troops . |
| 29 | The purpose of the Enterprise is to involve Third World countries in mining nodules and give them a share in the profits . |
| 30 | You give them a ball of what ? |