Example sentences of "[adv] and [pron] give " in BNC.

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1 Well , you know , practically , the governor or the head you see , he knows what he 's got ta work , but erm , I , I know because the lads do n't , but he generally tells them well I wan na work so and so and he gives me a bit of paper with the horses names on wants galloping .
2 Get a few ranters together and they give you broth if you let them save your soul .
3 If we all stick together and no-one gives them anything , they 'll soon be starving hungry themselves .
4 So you add them together and you give it the same sign .
5 She blew the darkness away and he gave her a quick smile as the last doubt faded .
6 She had a little smile on her face because she had won that round easily and it gave her a great deal of satisfaction .
7 It was a splendid meeting yesterday and they gave Bonar Law a magnificent reception .
8 She said I ca n't promise you , so I thought well I 'm sat six months now , so I phoned this ship thing yesterday on the telly called Just Start , no Start Again whatever it 's called and they gave me , they phoned me yesterday and they gave me a number of Cine Hill , Northampton which is the job advisory centre , adults education and then they phoned me yesterday and they told me who to get in touch with so I 've got an appointment Thursday at erm Northampton with the Social Services Department and they apparently map out all the places where you could go , say , say for instance that St Crispin 's is the mental home I can go there and be with the patients and then I can go to the Marina 's and be taught how to lift and how to bed bath and how to manipulate
9 Retracing our steps , we passed the reed screen once more and I gave a cursory glance through the hole .
10 She 's going she 's looking at you and you go , come here , you take a step further and she gives you a dirty look and then she waits until you 're that close and then she jumps !
11 As Mr. Ratcliffe pointed out , others suffer similarly and he gave as a worse example a village called Iwade , situated on the main road to Sheerness Docks .
12 I have one and two now and I give this back to the associate , he can keep that and you can keep this one .
13 A group of lads talked loudly and one gave me the eye
14 On the other hand , if a question is asked exactly as it appears here and you give an answer which has clearly been prepared in advance and learned off by heart you will not be very convincing .
15 ‘ Could you tell us where you were and what you were doing on those three days , please ? ’ he said , instead , levelly and she gave him another sideways , calculating look .
16 West Ham were at the top , Oxford were at the bottom , it 's the same this season , but last season , Oxford went there and they gave West Ham a very good game .
17 and er I went there and they give me an estimate and erm when it went in the contacts she does was er no , it 's it 's more than we thought because the chassis 's twisted or
18 And you go in there and they give you dirty looks , you know .
19 Absolutely they 're reading it with you so they 're with you so you 're you 're holding their interest even though you 're not actually saying anything , yeah , and again you may you may have noticed well another thing is once you 've once you 're written put the pen down and the easiest thing in the world to have a but if you want to make a point and you probably noticed once I once I put the red lines around the red boxes round there and I gave you the first demonstration of the Aldershot method I stood here okay .
20 He came a step closer and she gave a shaky laugh .
21 They pushed one man forward and he gave something to Silver .
22 So I said I 'm sorry but I 'm not included in everyone else and he gave me one .
23 Maggie asked softly and he gave a strange laugh , leading the horse out into the sunlight and locking the door securely again .
24 Jack tried the handle of the door again and it gave .
25 The latter , who have the most profound impact on the personality or the self of the child , are those individuals with whom the child interacts most closely and who give him or her security .
26 So as far as this meeting 's concerned , erm , most of our meetings are basically business meetings , but we , we have tried and we will try to put in speakers and , and do different things from time to time , we had er , er a woman last time who 'd been to Central America recently and she gave us a very interesting talk on a visit to El Salvador and Guatamala , erm , and we , we 'd like to do that more often , but , but what we do really erm , to begin with any rate , is we go th we go through the , the headings on this sheet , on the , on the minutes , we use them as headings for others and erm , items on the agenda and er some may have more to say than others and there are one or two not on there which we 'll pop in as we go along .
27 They went out quietly and she gave a long sigh of relief .
28 The woman 's face brightened up considerably and she gave him a sweet smile .
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