Example sentences of "[adv] give [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somebody had apparently given her the matchbook and she had been carrying it around with her ever since . ’ |
| 2 | The couple were taken to police headquarters for questioning where they admitted they had picked up a man on the night of 10 July by the harbour but did not know him and had only given him a lift into town . |
| 3 | I thought it was very unfortunate that Catherine had only given him a daughter , not a son . |
| 4 | Yes , but I 've , I 've only given him a lump figure you see . |
| 5 | Jacqui had only given him the Christian name . |
| 6 | ‘ If you had only given us the Law : Dayenu ! … |
| 7 | But they would have only given you a book for |
| 8 | Daily contact with infants in the crèche ( next to the sixth-form coffee bar ) , the elderly , the frail , the physically and mentally disabled , employed people who come to us for literacy support or computing courses , active retired people attending daytime A-level classes , members of the community using our library , students on the threshold of professional careers in music playing with non-too-gifted amateurs engaged in recreation , academically-gifted students about to enter university engaged in social work with our special-needs students , has perhaps given us an unusually clear insight into the different ways people need and want education and the different circumstances in which it enriches their lives . |
| 9 | ‘ They have all given me a tremendous amount of help , and I know that any help or guidance I want in the future will be there . |
| 10 | I 'd better give her a ring , I suppose . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd better give her a hand or she 'll sulk . |
| 12 | If you want our marriage to have any chance of success you 'd better give her the sack first thing on Monday morning ! ’ |
| 13 | And as I say , the middle one had a sling on his arm , so , as I was opening the outside door one of them says , well if you 've not got cigarettes , you better give me a tenner or I 'll thump you ! |
| 14 | You had better give me a few days . |
| 15 | " You better give me a scotch . " |
| 16 | Better give me a game gon na thrash you whenever I could of thrashed at whatever ! |
| 17 | See you 've got your purse in your bag you better give me the money |
| 18 | Right , you 'd better give them a shout , there are n't that many actually |
| 19 | Perhaps you 'd better give him a pop over hurdles tomorrow . ’ |
| 20 | when he gets , when daddy comes home you 'd better give him a big cuddle and ask him |
| 21 | Now anybody who er who would like to see more sex on television , better give us a ring now I suppose O nine O four six four six four one if you er if you think the er Buddha of Suburbia which is erm has really upset Mary quite considerably . |
| 22 | If you need owt you better give us a ring . |
| 23 | We , in return , had better give you a few tips on how to behave in a Grenadier battalion or you 'll come badly unstuck . ’ |
| 24 | I think I 'd better give you a course of broad-spectrum antibiotics . |
| 25 | ( Mutengene is a harder word than Sasse so I had better give you the pronunciation : Moo-teng-genay . ) |
| 26 | But then I mean come and saw me once , you see , when I was n't there like that and he he tested from top to bottom , he said well ar ar after we sit and talked , and like he said well I better give you the once over , I said th er , certainly . |
| 27 | As Engels noted , women contribute differentially to the processes of production in different types of society but the contribution of women in the production of the most important goods of the society does not necessarily give them a high status as he thought . |
| 28 | A collection of questions will not necessarily give you a coherent focus for your essay , so you need to encapsulate as many as you can in a single basic question . |
| 29 | Also it would be very wasteful of pump power and , depending where the transfer pipe entered the second filter/filter chamber , would not necessarily give you the oxygenation you wish for . |
| 30 | He 'd show her , and even if she did n't appreciate the work it would perhaps give him a moment to think , to recover his poise . |