Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] give [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I can do , Father Poole thought despairingly , is to try and give him the spiritual strength to resist such a temptation . |
| 2 | I asked erm Ian yesterday to try and give me the dates so I , I 'm , I expect him to come back to me today with some idea on that . |
| 3 | Ma'am , sir I should say , erm Mr makes certain comments about there are doubts about whether this scheme will go forward , we have been in contact with Department of Transport , again to try and give you the correct factual position . |
| 4 | Baptiste , run and ask your mother to come and give me a hand , would you ? |
| 5 | " Perhaps you would be ready to come and give me a fitting on Friday afternoon ? " |
| 6 | No because our training is such that there is n't the officers just would not come into that bedroom at all because there is a threat in there and I 'm dealing with that threat and unless I specifically call for another officer to come and give me a hand there is no need to come in and in fact if anybody had 've done they 'd have been told to get out because I 've got a problem there and that 's my problem . |
| 7 | And they used to come and give us the pattern , what the butler got to lay on the table ; the tea-service would be the same pattern as the tablecloth was . |
| 8 | If in pain control , you were in control of your own pain , you have less than if it were a set wait every four hours for us to come and give you a tablet . |
| 9 | Now let that give you an idea how serious things are . |
| 10 | If the lord abbot agrees , I hope you will stay and give us the benefit of your judgement . |
| 11 | To vanish and give herself the chance to rebuild her life . |
| 12 | There was unemployment going about and the man that had a certain job at making certain things were n't to keen to show the apprentice what to do or give them the recipes . |
| 13 | You 've got to give them a very specific task to do and give them the support and the materials to do it with and make sure it happens so that when they turn up at 3 o ’ clock , it 's set up to go . |
| 14 | Show us what you want us to do and give us the strength to submit our will to yours . |
| 15 | Er , I 've had a word with Jeremy about decorating , oh Florrie I must apologise I did try to ring you , I think I managed to get everybody else , erm but you were n't there , in and then I , I left it I regret to say , erm but we thought perhaps we ought to have the kitchen re-decorated and I 've had a word with Jereminy , Jereminy , Jeremy and he says about two hundred pounds and I did get permission from some of you and I 've gone ahead and asked him to do it and he said about three weeks , but before we can have that done , in the meantime , the roof leaked again out in the kitchen Erm , so I 've had a word with Peter who was going on holiday and he should be home this week and he said he will look at it as soon as he 's home , so I 'll give him a ring , I 'll try tomorrow night , I 'm out tonight , I 'll try and give him a ring tomorrow . |
| 16 | We 're going to make use of this moonless period , but we 'll try and give you a practice run over the ladder before the big night . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll try and give you an example . |
| 18 | Let me try and give you an example . |
| 19 | So I 'll try and give you an idea some time tomorrow morning of the of the situation . |
| 20 | Sean took his eyes off the road long enough to turn and give her an astonished look . |
| 21 | We 're out there riding as hard as we can and if that gives any of the supporters any sort of er consolation , I do n't know if it does or not , but it — we 're really giving our best all the time and er win , lose or draw you 'll always find us every time we 've got a doing our best and er although often some people might shout and scream and give us a hard time , er it 's not for , for lack of trying , I mean nobody wants to finish last and er me even more than most , so just get behind us and shout and scream and we 'll try our hardest . |
| 22 | Rosalba baked special almond biscuits , hoops of crumbly nuts and fine sugar , intending to wrap some in coloured papers and offer them to Tommaso 's mother as a gift for the feast ; but could not , because , as she was about to set off , she realised that she did not know her well enough to call and give her a present . |
| 23 | Tell you what , I 'll go and give them a hand ! |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll go and give her the good news . ’ |
| 25 | Why do n't you go and give him a surprise , actually pay your husband some attention for once , eh ? ’ |
| 26 | I 'd go and give him a hand but I do not like ladders Fun is n't it ? |
| 27 | I think we should go and give him a hand . |
| 28 | I have n't yet no , but I think he 's outside mixing cement , we said we 'd go and give him a hand to put his posts in |
| 29 | When I 've found out when she can come and give me a hand , I 'll give you a ring . ’ |
| 30 | She 'd come and give me a hot water bottle . |