Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm sorry I gave them all away I 'm afraid mhm yeah so er I 'm tempted to start rolling again in a moment so would you like to make an announcement yeah ? |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sorry I gave you such a rotten tea . ’ |
| 3 | " I m sorry I gave you such a fright . |
| 4 | After Dame Sirith has agreed to help , Wilekin pays her : ( " Take , here , twenty shillings : this I give you in reward to buy sheep and swine for yourself . " ) |
| 5 | For this I gave them about 30p , which is rather a lot , & since then they have been running up to me when they see me , offering to polish up my briefcase etc . |
| 6 | I just came to make myself au fait with the situation and to garner some information in return for some I give you . ’ |
| 7 | In each of the above examples the children have been asked to take on the role of " people who know " ; and it is this which gives them their stake in the drama . |
| 8 | Some you gave me wi when I changed . |
| 9 | Right So this is what some one gave us |
| 10 | I E this one gives us a a value of three . |
| 11 | Despite all this he gave me one term to show some improvement , I never really shed the " below average " tag at the Halton style of academy . |
| 12 | If you simply enjoy the countryside , we can add an extra dimension — and protect that which gives you so much pleasure . |
| 13 | It was that which gave him locus standi . |
| 14 | If he want the forty six , I mean the forty six I give you this . |
| 15 | Hereford beef is more fatty which gives it more flavour , and that 's what the customer wants . |
| 16 | Years coaching black kids in South Africa , his marital ups and downs , his worship for the suspicious Wardle , his boyhood experiences as a film extra which gave him a life-long love of being ‘ on stage ’ , all this satisfactorily answers the question ‘ Why a book from this chap ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ So how much she give you , then ? ’ |
| 18 | And then when they get bigger you give them more and more freedom to do just what they want to do and all you do is watch carefully and make sure they 're not doing anything obviously , outrageously daft but you let them find themselves and if there are problems they bring their problems to you and you sit down and you quietly talk about it , there 's not shouting , no I say you 've got to do this because I am your parent ! |
| 19 | How much you give me for it ? |
| 20 | Oh it er oh it used to take it all depends how much they gave her to do you see . |
| 21 | " How much he give you ? " |
| 22 | That 's right you give it to Dad , give it to Uncle Adam okay that one 's all used up now so you can use another one if you need it , alright ? |
| 23 | ‘ It is times like these which give us all hope , ’ she said . |
| 24 | When I was ill she gave me some herbs made into a medicine and I got better quite quickly . |
| 25 | Do it , as always , at a safe height and remember that the tail was the most difficult function to control initially and is the most likely one to give you problems when the action is the opposite of what you have come to expect . |
| 26 | ‘ When I go to my clients to collect I always ask if they have any hand-knitted woollen garments they do n't need , and if I 'm lucky they give me some . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm glad he gave it to you . |
| 28 | Yeah he 'd got some letters , apparently he were going to Post Office later for stamps and everything and er got this letter and seeings I 'd only got three he give me his , give me twenty four pence for a stamp so I walked to Post Office , I thought well I do n't want no penny or tuppeny stamps . |
| 29 | For the sales model , for instance , we used to have three 3-megabyte files , each one giving us one type of output . |
| 30 | Hydrogen sulphate H two S O four gives you the sulphates the ones that end in and what does hydrogen nitrate , nitric acid what does that one give you ? |