Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [pers pn] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifty p I give Dass . |
| 2 | ‘ Now we are selling 50,000 vehicles it gives us encouragement that European consumers will forget the past and give us another chance , ’ said Mr Miller . |
| 3 | We feel very strongly about freedom of expression , so when [ in 1989 ] the NEA withdrew its grant to Artist 's Space , within forty-eight hours we gave them $10,000 to replace it . |
| 4 | Anxious not to offend the tsar further , he hesitated ; after three days he gave way , went to Philippopolis and the union of the southern and northern Bulgars was proclaimed . |
| 5 | And er the War ended as you know in November eighteen and er when the War came to an end the the Government introduced a form of service whereas if er we youngsters volunteered say if you volunteered for two year they gave you twenty pound and two months leave you see , if you volunteered for three year they gave you forty pound or was it thirty , thirty forty , and er three months leave . |
| 6 | They gave it a thousand letters they gave it money |
| 7 | All right then well thank you Simon that 's a broad thank you and and thank you very much for your money as well a hundred and fifty quid he gave that 's loads of dosh er to come in for the day as well and I 'm going to take you out for a a nice lunch in a bit when he can wonder around have a poke around everywhere this afternoon too so should be all right should n't it that ? |
| 8 | On 3 May he gave an address on Milton at the Frick Museum in New York , in which he recanted his previously low opinion of the poet , and on this occasion he seemed to one observer " incredibly refined , visibly aged " — he had given the same address two months before to the British Academy , and thus had saved himself additional effort . |
| 9 | The project team think that they could carry out the further research in an additional year at an estimated cost of £20 000 , but that the chances of solving all the problems are only 30 : 70 as opposed to the 50 : 50 chance they gave the initial phase . |
| 10 | One afternoon she gave a pound short on the change which had showed up in emerald numerals before her face . |
| 11 | Bought a Vax , they said no they 're a con do n't worry , he said with a little bit of luck you 'll get one that 'll be free , you 'll have to give a report on it once a month , then about after nine months they give it to you if they thought |
| 12 | One exercise I give classes in creative writing is to think of someone , Miss or Mr O'Connor , standing by a window reading a letter . |
| 13 | We were in a sort of back room , and at one point we gave a particularly loud whoop at a particularly long word and a waiter looked in to see if we were calling for anything and then went away . |
| 14 | She had been the toast of Berlin but she was getting on by now when one evening she gave a Lieder recital in the Berlin Philharmonie . |
| 15 | One moment you give all your time to it , you do n't come home till late at night , you do n't even come home in the afternoon like ordinary men , the next you are giving no time to it at all . |
| 16 | Even after 37 years they give you problems from time to time . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Over five years I gave away about a million quid . |
| 18 | Flaubert does not build up his characters , as did Balzac , by objective , external description ; in fact , so careless is he of their outward appearance that on one occasion he gives Emma brown eyes ( 14 ) ; on another deep black eyes ( 15 ) ; and on another blue eyes ( 16 ) . |
| 19 | On one occasion he gives Emma brown eyes ( 14. ) ; on another deep black eyes ( 15 ) ; and on another blue eyes ( 16 ) . |
| 20 | In 1856 the one sign he gave that peasants might be freed sooner rather than later was the suspension , in July , of the existing rules for recruitment into the army . |
| 21 | and er so one night she gave him , come in a bit paralytic , wanted a drink , so she give him a drink with a load of tranquillisers in |
| 22 | In a fit of feverish activity Gould proceeded to publish a series of lectures and papers as quickly as he could possibly produce them ; on 25 August he exhibited and named at the Zoological Society six new species of kangaroo and presented his information on the bowerbirds ; on 8 September he read a paper at a scientific meeting on the extraordinary brush turkey , or Alectura , among a selection of others ; on 13 October he gave an account of the Ocellated leipoa ; on 10 November he exhibited at the Society 50 of his new Australian birds , which he characterised in subsequent meetings ; and so on , until he had presented all his new trophies from both the bird and animal kingdoms to the awestruck Zoological members . |
| 23 | One example they give is that of Home Office statistics on drug addicts that show only those addicts that are registered . |
| 24 | For one thing it gives me the opportunity to write to you , and also I must have time to draw breath and come to terms with this astounding piece of good fortune that has befallen me . |
| 25 | Conceived and built as one unit they give good views of the Top and Bottom New Pieces , the Tin Shed Grounds and the Four Score Field . |
| 26 | And I remember one time he gave me a list of things to do in the morning — fill this with potatoes , put the beans up on the shelves , brush the yard and then you can go out . |
| 27 | Now that my South African ban has been lifted , I want to reclaim the No 1 spot I gave up in 1989 and it will be interesting to see how Tuffers reacts to the challenge . |
| 28 | On 15 October he gave an ‘ academy ’ ( a concert ) at the city theatre : the programme included two piano concertos which he played himself ( K.459 in F , noted by one listener as a work of ‘ gentillesse and great charm ’ , and K.537 in D , subsequently known as the ‘ Coronation ’ ) , a symphony ( presumably one of the 1788 group ) , and various arias and piano pieces . |
| 29 | After two months he gave in . |
| 30 | After two years they gave up prospecting and pulled out . |