Example sentences of "[vb past] give [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I promised to give it the fifty-one hours , so that 's , let me see , forty-five left . |
| 2 | But as she bent to give her the bowl , she lowered her voice , and whispered in Rosa 's ear , ‘ Be careful , you 're not a child any more , you must n't forget that . |
| 3 | Genoa boasted a powerful ancient landed nobility whose surplus wealth helped to give it the capital for its commercial enterprises ; but it also needed to import food and raw materials from elsewhere , and enjoyed a powerful economic motive for becoming a centre of commerce . |
| 4 | He only mentioned his wife to tell me he 'd just bought her something new to wear and he tried to give me the impression his brother-in-law was something of a poor fish because he could n't make ends meet . ’ |
| 5 | The ship 's doctor tried to give them the kiss of life but they could not be revived . |
| 6 | I tried to give her the kiss of life . |
| 7 | And then he tried to give us the slip and run off . |
| 8 | Somewhere and somehow she 'd given them the slip , shinned down the mat of Virginia creeper in the darkness and scuttled across the lawn to hide . |
| 9 | But next to the Dance Hall if we 'd given them the licence to ha turn the cinema into a Dance Hall , there was this little old boy who lived just the other side of the road , in an old cottage , and he was over eighty . |
| 10 | They were determined to confront the English Heritage inspector , but it soon became clear he 'd given them the slip . |
| 11 | Perhaps he thought that , and he 'd given me the slip . |
| 12 | She did n't realise that she 'd given me the greatest gift of all . |
| 13 | ‘ What are you grinning at , Cambridge ? ’ he demanded — he 'd given me the nickname after some reference I made to my own past ; it was an affectionate pan of coals for my head — ‘ It 's perfectly true . |
| 14 | ‘ And , if you 'd given me the chance to finish , you would also have heard me specify ‘ for the general collection ’ . |
| 15 | It would n't have surprised me if you 'd given me the boot there and then . |
| 16 | I said ’ Oh yes ’ and I saw the and he 'd kept the collar on , and of course he 'd given me the one that tossed his head up did n't he ! |
| 17 | She approved of my taste and I 'd given her the right amount of money for the red coat which I st ill have n't worn . |
| 18 | She was already dutiful and anxious to please him , and she looked so pretty in a dress of sprigged cotton he 'd given her the money to buy for the wedding . |
| 19 | Fortunately they 'd given her the job back at the shoe shop , and she and I had to spend only evenings and weekends together . |
| 20 | He reminded her of the day he 'd given her the locket and ring . ’ |
| 21 | And she went away and produced that document after we 'd given her the brief . |
| 22 | Staring blankly at the rubble , all that remained of the cottage , she tried to remember the exact words Leo had used when he 'd given her the cheque . |
| 23 | But it was after he 'd given her the ring that the cracks had begun to appear in her façade . |
| 24 | You 'd think I 'd given him the moon . ’ |
| 25 | She was sure that at some point she 'd given someone the cold shoulder and hurt them badly without noticing . |
| 26 | We 'd given you the activities to do there so you could find the output of them . |
| 27 | Erm now if I 'd given you the same thing and you 'd |
| 28 | When a priest came to give her the Last Rites , she gazed on the crucifix that he held before her eyes and felt her illness leave her . |
| 29 | Jesus , as the Alpha and Omega , the beginning and the end , Jesus , who came to give us the good news , news worth singing about . |
| 30 | My wife telephoned to give me the news which had been heard by our daughter listening to the radio . |