Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [pers pn] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom could see this so he gave me the key to his hotel room and told me to have a shower and put on some of his clothes . |
| 2 | A tangerine that Modigliani gave me — we were in front of a fruit-shop — and another that he gave to his wife : that is my last memory of them . ’ |
| 3 | Good grief it must cost them a fortune to erm you know , pay for all these then , so they give you the Walkman to , while you 're doing this and they give you the batteries , tt |
| 4 | I complained to Northumbrian Water about this and they gave me a very dusty answer . |
| 5 | We want satisfaction , we want completeness in life , and so we try this and it gives it for a moment , but when it 's finished we 've got ta try something else . |
| 6 | So I says erm , Do you have any washing machines er that you have and all this and I give it all to him . |
| 7 | Because it was the women themselves who were organizing it because they felt part of it they did n't see it as some sort of other people that were more politically motivated that than them giving them something to keep them out on strike , which by its very nature could could have been something that the people would have accepted for a while and then not accepted . |
| 8 | Public relations is thus concerned with a company or brand reputation which must be such that it gives people confidence in the company , providing the company with total credibility . |
| 9 | The motion of the ions and electrons in the sheet is such that it gives rise to a net current around Jupiter . |
| 10 | A council they oppose so much that they give us one of the lowest grants per head in the country , poll tax cap us , take us to court over redundancy payments , criticise us over the Meadow Well management and so on . |
| 11 | Excessive use of this technique in a self-administered or postal questionnaire can irritate respondents so much that they give up . |
| 12 | Did you want me so much that you gave them up ? ’ |
| 13 | He did NOT write these words : ‘ God loved the brainy people and attractive people in the world so much that he gave his only Son , so that anyone with 8 GCSEs , 3 A-Levels and loads of friends may not die but have eternal life ’ ! ! |
| 14 | Confirming instances are such if they give inductive support to a theory , and the greater the number of confirming instances established , the greater the support for the theory and the more likely it is to be true . |
| 15 | But in the end we get back as much as we give , and find that though such activities are often hard work and demanding , the fact that we are needed and active is rewarding and stimulating . |
| 16 | Now usually in the exams they work it so you ca n't do that cos they give you a graph already drawn and they 'll have sort of erm two squares is equal to one unit along the bottom but only one square equals one unit |
| 17 | Perhaps we , we all have erm thirty three pence each and we give a penny to Oxfam , or we 'll toss up or we 'll , thirty three pence each and one penny left over so we 'll have a third of that penny each we 'll cut it up . |
| 18 | I 'm going to bring in some illuminated medieval books for you to have a look at , because what you 're going to do is to write this out in best on special paper using illuminated letters and if you 're very good we will try to get them laminated so that we can keep them as an example of what year seven students can produce as their best work , to say to everybody , hey look at this , this is very good , now we ca n't do that if I give you a sheet of A four paper and you manage to fill less than a quarter of that space , so you 're going to need a minimum of ten different things that you would like to say you think are important , you believe are important , you believe they 're valuable and your homework over the next week is to finish that list if you want it to rhyme , well yes you can work on it to make it rhyme , if you want to have what we call rhyming couplet , er just one moment I have n't said clear away . |
| 19 | Erm simple as that if I give you a list of telephone numbers you 're not likely to remember them for long , you might be able |
| 20 | Once she saw , sitting on the pavement before a café , drinking pale green drinks , and embracing , leaning over from their plastic chairs towards each other and embracing , the most beautiful couple ; the man with a face angular and ravaged and tragic , the girl dark and thin , with pale lips in a dark tan face : and she was so moved that she said , aloud to Rosie who was walking with her , " Look , Oh God , look at those lovely people " : and Rosie looked and stared and laughed and said , " Good Lord , what odd ideas you have , I would n't look like that if you gave me a hundred pounds . " |
| 21 | I mean if you go it 's normally I chat about two lectures on that and you give lots of examples . |
| 22 | He had to ring up that and it gives you all the phone numbers of all the police stations in Bristol . |
| 23 | Warm acceptance , and a compassionate and kindly approach , should be the marks of all that we give to others — and to our own children too . |
| 24 | I remember when I first met you at the house of terror ; what you gave me , all that you gave me . |
| 25 | The lessons of A Course In Miracles provide many wonderful affirmations such as — ‘ There is nothing to fear ’ , ‘ I could see peace instead of this ’ , ‘ All that I give is given to myself , ‘ All things I think I see reflect ideas ’ , ‘ Let me be still and listen to the truth ’ , ‘ Light and joy and peace abide in me ’ , ‘ Today I will judge nothing that occurs ’ , and ‘ The past is over . |
| 26 | It did n't seem my sort of thing at all and I gave Harvey a glance to indicate it . |
| 27 | I can not I can not do I can not differentiate that I 'll tell you what I could do I 'd have no problem at all if you gave me something Y equals U squared no problem |
| 28 | For the man or woman with a first-class academic brain the administrative posts in the Home Civil Service have great attraction , above all because they give the satisfaction of doing work of paramount social and national importance . |
| 29 | Look at him — throwin' his eye up your skirt — and it no time at all since he gave up wettin' the bed ! ’ |
| 30 | Between four and six episodes was Verity Lambert 's ideal length for a story , preferring the latter as it gave more opportunity for character development which , in her belief , audiences appreciated . |