Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not what people say that gives 'em away , it 's what they do . ’ |
| 2 | Governors admit they knew of an association between the 2 men , but they say that gave them no cause for concern . |
| 3 | All I can do , Father Poole thought despairingly , is to try and give him the spiritual strength to resist such a temptation . |
| 4 | I 'd sent Mum to the acupuncturist to try and give her some energy , and Jack and I were in the house when we heard a terrible thud . |
| 5 | I asked erm Ian yesterday to try and give me the dates so I , I 'm , I expect him to come back to me today with some idea on that . |
| 6 | Ma'am , sir I should say , erm Mr makes certain comments about there are doubts about whether this scheme will go forward , we have been in contact with Department of Transport , again to try and give you the correct factual position . |
| 7 | She told her story to an officer she did not know and gave him the number of the Bristol callbox . |
| 8 | Baptiste , run and ask your mother to come and give me a hand , would you ? |
| 9 | " Perhaps you would be ready to come and give me a fitting on Friday afternoon ? " |
| 10 | No because our training is such that there is n't the officers just would not come into that bedroom at all because there is a threat in there and I 'm dealing with that threat and unless I specifically call for another officer to come and give me a hand there is no need to come in and in fact if anybody had 've done they 'd have been told to get out because I 've got a problem there and that 's my problem . |
| 11 | just so many bits and pieces to do , I need to come and get this to come and give me some further comments |
| 12 | And they used to come and give us the pattern , what the butler got to lay on the table ; the tea-service would be the same pattern as the tablecloth was . |
| 13 | If in pain control , you were in control of your own pain , you have less than if it were a set wait every four hours for us to come and give you a tablet . |
| 14 | Oh they 're going to come and give you another quote or something you said ? |
| 15 | This makes it vomit and gives it diarrhoea , so you 're flushing the toxins out of both ends . |
| 16 | Ken Hunter , the youngest national chairman in BAIE history , has two main aims during his year in office : to listen to what members say and to give them value for money . |
| 17 | Before she could move back , he bent and gave her a light , lingering kiss on her mouth . |
| 18 | We feed you , keep you warm and give you a roof over your head . |
| 19 | We did n't know whether to give it to her or not . |
| 20 | ‘ Do you think that gives you some kind of hold over me ? |
| 21 | A new bank account that give you independence and freedom to choose how to organise your money the way you want , when you want . |
| 22 | Before entering battle , the warriors stripped to breech-cloth and moccasins , some donning war-bonnets , then prepared their medicine bundles and applied sacred body paint to invoke the Wyakin medicine powers that gave them supernatural protection . |
| 23 | Again , like teachers , there are one or two honest coppers , but in general they nick you for things you have not done or give you a sound slapping to make you remember them . |
| 24 | I gathered , however , that they expected it to continue to get worse and that there was nothing they could do except give me vitamins . |
| 25 | Most people had come to understand the danger posed by Hitler 's Germany ; but they decided to delude themselves into believing that giving him Austria and Czechoslovakia would buy him off . |
| 26 | Now let that give you an idea how serious things are . |
| 27 | Conference , I ask you , with that response what does that hold for our social services within our communities and how hopelessly helpless we must feel that given we will certainly not ? |
| 28 | What happens if give me an scenario , a cautionary tale like the insurance man does to his customers . |
| 29 | Of the two passengers , both women , one had turned and given them a glare , the other pretended nothing was going on . |
| 30 | ‘ Let's scuff a ball up the way we are alleged to have done and give it to someone like Devon Malcolm . |