Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father paid for my digs in Paddington and gave me a pound a week pocket money , together with what he called ‘ travelling expenses ’ for my regular visit home ( home and a good , square meal ) , and to spend some time with Clare who was fifteen and slowly , very slowly , improving . |
| 2 | Rosalba closed her eyes , and beseeched heaven , not for the first time , ‘ Dear Lady , Lady who has known tears and cares and the love of God on earth , please help Serafina and give her lots of milk so she can make money and give her strength and stop people being unkind to her . |
| 3 | It had been Burn , even when on his sick bed , who had sent for Sir George Gilbert Scott and given him his support when in professional difficulty . |
| 4 | If we 'd upset his applecart in busting out the hostages , then the radical fundamentalists might easily have taken over in Syria and given us a much worse problem . |
| 5 | I went to see Suor Eusebia and gave her a message to deliver to Eric when the attention of the carabinieri was else where . |
| 6 | It was the Royal College for the Blind at Hereford that gave him new inspiration by teaching him how to sculpt . |
| 7 | He looked back at Kim and gave him a small bow . |
| 8 | She did , however , slip next door to May and gave her a rough sketch of what had happened , right up to the Syrup of Figs . |
| 9 | Still , I could go into Burnley and give it a try . ’ |
| 10 | Mr Taylor travelled back to Aberdeen and gave them to Murray . |
| 11 | A couple of hours earlier , on a hunch , Hermann Goering rang down to his main office in Carinhall and gave them a Stockholm number to obtain . |
| 12 | He wanted to get on with the job of examining the clothes and , he hoped , identifying the body , but he had another job to do first — to call on the River Police and give them such facts as he had . |
| 13 | He was buried the following day under the name of Wolfgang Gerhard , an Austrian Nazi who befriended him in Brazil and gave him his identity papers before returning to Vienna . |
| 14 | well I know when , I know when Alan and Jade were both made emplo , unemployed and Alan withdrawal his dole and when Jade was unemployed they took the dole off Alan and give him sixty pound a week which was you know |
| 15 | He just kept on giving everything to Lennie and giving him the love he needed . |
| 16 | He kissed Amelia and gave her a Christmas card . |
| 17 | However , he and Earl Tostig Godwinsson [ q.v. ] were robbed by brigands on their way home , and forced to return to Rome , where Nicholas reinstated Ealdred and gave him the pallium , while insisting that he give up Worcester . |
| 18 | By 1661 Gurle had raised the hardy nectarine Elruge and given it his own name reversed , with an extra e for euphony . |
| 19 | To choose one of many examples , I can point to the case of Nottingham-born Herol Graham , whose parents came from Jamaica and gave him no support in his sporting endeavours , at first in sprinting and then in boxing where he made his mark as a light-middleweight . |
| 20 | Bob Eaton , the man who brought Lotus to GM and gave us the Calibra , is about to become chairman of Chrysler . |
| 21 | He did not accomplish much , beyond making it clear to the owners that , in return for their agreement to a national minimum , he would abandon Samuel and give them the eight-hour day ; but he was thought to have acquitted himself well . |
| 22 | I I 'll go in I the only information I 've got is Stuart came into the meeting , Monday and give us half an hour talk on it . |
| 23 | The trip was a great success , the subsequent Travels in the West exhibition proving very popular in Nanjing and giving him his first taste of newspaper and television attention . |
| 24 | The federal civil service is the only part of Canadian society which remotely approaches the bilingual and bicultural ideal : this isolates it from real life in Canada and gives it the tendency , like the Prussian army , to believe that it is the sole repository of national values . |
| 25 | When he was out of danger and questioned about relatives , he told them , somewhat reluctantly , that he had a sister living in South Africa and gave them Pat 's married name and address . |
| 26 | Israel 's uniqueness stems from the fact that it considers itself to be in a perpetual state of war with its Arab neighbours which , together with the Nazi barbarities of the last war , is somehow supposed to make the rest of the world feel permanently sorry for Israel and give it the right to carry out any intelligence operations it likes . |
| 27 | The boss went to Calgary and gave me the day off . ’ |
| 28 | That can mean only that the common agricultural policy is to be reformed in such a way as to take money from the United Kingdom and give it for cohesion to countries outside . |
| 29 | Some time later Mehmed II repented of his action , invited Molla Husrev back to Istanbul and gave him the office of Mufti . |
| 30 | She went over to Shelley and gave him a book , telling him that Claire Claremont was sitting by little William — ‘ Willmouse ’ , she called him — and writing letters home . |