Example sentences of "[verb] and give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I can do , Father Poole thought despairingly , is to try and give him the spiritual strength to resist such a temptation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She told her story to an officer she did not know and gave him the number of the Bristol callbox . |
| 6 | Baptiste , run and ask your mother to come and give me a hand , would you ? |
| 7 | " Perhaps you would be ready to come and give me a fitting on Friday afternoon ? " |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | just so many bits and pieces to do , I need to come and get this to come and give me some further comments |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Oh they 're going to come and give you another quote or something you said ? |
| 13 | This makes it vomit and gives it diarrhoea , so you 're flushing the toxins out of both ends . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Before she could move back , he bent and gave her a light , lingering kiss on her mouth . |
| 16 | We feed you , keep you warm and give you a roof over your head . |
| 17 | Of the two passengers , both women , one had turned and given them a glare , the other pretended nothing was going on . |
| 18 | ‘ Let's scuff a ball up the way we are alleged to have done and give it to someone like Devon Malcolm . |
| 19 | Usually I start in my bedroom and I like to get to the top of the stairs by the baby 's lunchtime , and then I stop and give them lunch and then I carry on and get on quite well . |
| 20 | ‘ Trust yourself ’ she says and gave me the best gift in the universe , one hour of total relaxation . ’ |
| 21 | But he could be ready for anything ; for the churches which had abandoned him ; for the churches like the Philippian one which had continued to care ; for hunger ; for plenty ; for the times when he had no obvious human support , and for the times when his fellow believers came and gave him encouragement . |
| 22 | Usually perhaps there was a servant , but my mother did everything for us ii the house , made many of our clothes and mended them , prepared and gave us food , tended us when sick , comforted us when cold , disappointed , or sorrowful . |
| 23 | Such information was not highly ‘ theoretical ’ but it helped build up an objective picture of the people who went to the theatres I studied and gave me a useful corrective to people who made sweeping generalizations such as ‘ the theatre is for everyone . ’ |
| 24 | And she gave us these so I said , well I 've given her towels , wait and give it her for next . |
| 25 | Using the Public Windows Interface self-certification kits promised next month , independent software vendors which find their application(s) do n't run are being asked look at the source , find the undocumented Windows calls being made and give them to Sun which will add them to the PWI specification . |
| 26 | The original wall survives at the base to a greater degree than we had realised and gives us a substantial footing . |
| 27 | If the lord abbot agrees , I hope you will stay and give us the benefit of your judgement . |
| 28 | The ‘ sheriff ’ came out and said that Customs wanted us to fly to Darwin for clearance , but we begged for mercy and he let us stay and gave us a ride to a lodge in the police wagon . |
| 29 | Five minutes later , an Arab in a small blue van stopped and gave me a few kilos of tangerines . |
| 30 | They had to go and give him some support and they put up quite a good fight . |