Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ewen obviously knew his way , but although Neil gave him room he made no further attempt to break free , or even to reach open water . |
| 2 | I walk with a frame so Karen gave me a hand and took me round and introduced me to people . ’ |
| 3 | She smiled at Aggie ; although Aggie gave her no answering smile , but just said , ‘ Well , the day 's Thursday . |
| 4 | Adam lost his spiritual purity through eating the forbidden fruit , so God gave him the opportunity to reinstate himself partially through immersion in the original water which came from Eden . |
| 5 | It can also be said that , unlike Winckelmann , Hölderlin has some intuitive appreciation of the Greek spirit 's darker depths to which Nietzsche will later attach the name " flionysiac " — although Hölderlin gives them no such definition , and only in the last draft of his unfinished dramatic poem , The Death of Empedocles , do these depths receive a comparably urgent emphasis . |
| 6 | Josh erm if Chuck gives me the money before like Jed does , yeah , do you mind if I sell the ticket to him cos I 've sold one to Ian ? |
| 7 | ‘ I accept , of course , that judges must be vigilant concerning the liberty of the subject ; but , if Parliament gives them discretionary powers , as section 13 of the Act of 1960 seems to do , it is not competent for them to refuse to exercise those powers . |
| 8 | Yeah cos Ian gave me a prickly stick . |
| 9 | If money gave him power , he himself became a victim of it : many of these young men , once the recipient of Minton 's not uninterested generosity , returned in a steady stream for more . |
| 10 | Southampton 2 , Manchester City 1 City ripe for Kendall salvation if Swales gives him the time . |
| 11 | These flowers have lasted me a long time cos Ruth gave them to me on my birthday last month . |
| 12 | Well , if Daddy gives you a pound again , Grant |
| 13 | Cos Wayne give him one , he paid seventy quid for it and he dismantled that one in three week of having it . |
| 14 | If Althusser gave us history without a subject , Habermas gives us subjects without history . |
| 15 | If Joseph gave him an exhibition it could make a huge difference to Leary 's reputation , yet she wondered how likely it was that Joseph would help him . |
| 16 | Chandos Herald , the Black Prince 's biographer , makes the prince reply to Charles V 's letter citing him to appear before the parlement of Paris by saying , ‘ Lords , by my faith it seems to me that the French think I am dead ; but if God gives me comfort , and I can get up from this bed , I will do them a great deal of harm even now , for God knows that they lack a good case , and they will have real cause to complain of me . ’ |
| 17 | So if God gave them the same gift as he gave us , who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ , who was I to think that I could oppose God ? ’ ' |
| 18 | I 'm not trying to be a teacher , but if people give me their time , they should be repaid . |
| 19 | If people give you things , they should give freely , extracting nothing in return . |
| 20 | Our task is made easier if people give us as much information as possible when there has been an incident . |
| 21 | Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , has bought its first Poussin drawing , the ‘ View of the Tiber Valley ’ , attributed to Claude until Blunt gave it to Poussin , ( £156,450 , est. £70–100,000 ; NACF , NHMF , the Hulme Fund , and the Friends of the Ashmolean and the Purchase Grant Fund support ) . |
| 22 | If Britain gives us all those billions , to keep us going in spite of all the trouble , might not the cash dry up if we had peace ? |
| 23 | ‘ Both were brought in from the garden — home grown — and never left the kitchen until Cook gave them to Edith for the table . |
| 24 | Hunter-Blair took a lonely stand in British politics and until MacQuillan gave him a platform he was a nonentity . |
| 25 | I know five hundred and sixty was extra cos Stuart gave me two hundred short of a thousand . |
| 26 | Oh ! er look I mean it at all unless David gives me a little |
| 27 | It 's obvious : unless work gives us a buzz , we wo n't give our best . |
| 28 | De Lorenzo 's move follows a decision by his Liberal party to retract earlier threats to pull out of government unless Amato gave him public support . |
| 29 | Nor would he learn anything from the journal unless Meg gave him the key to it ; for the cypher was a special one , transforming itself constantly page by page as the journal progressed . |
| 30 | Well I wo n't be going unless Chris gives me some money . |