Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [adv] give [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The answer is 0.9 recurring , but I do not expect to be awarded great sums of public money for this discovery , which I freely give to the world ; nor do I demand the overthrow of government and its takeover by a gang of lower-class hooligans . |
2 | If we had such a network , we would be able to withdraw the support which we currently give to private practitioners , but the Minister knows that we can not do so at this stage because there is no body of effective legal advice and opinion to benefit people . |
3 | ‘ Personnel applied to Ardis for a reference — which they freely gave without mentioning anywhere that they had terminated your employment with them . |
4 | He brought to his teaching humour and energy ; instead of the sparingly composed still life , he heaped up with exotic abundance the fruit and vegetables which he afterwards gave to the students to take home . |
5 | That was before my time , of course , but he obviously passed on some of his skills because during , or just after , very wet weather , Sam would go off somewhere and catch lovely brown trout , which he often gave to people who were ill ; and sometimes when he had a sheep to kill , he would send down the head which would make a really tasty and nourishing broth . |