Example sentences of "[pron] give [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shall I give him the hundred ? |
| 2 | No she bought a second lo a second twenty lot of twenty and I give her the first lot back probably . |
| 3 | During his lunch-hour I give him the last orange , a biro and three lollipops , all I can muster , and wish him a happy birthday . |
| 4 | And I give him the whole book what lists names and numbers and what not . |
| 5 | I give you the next one ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The Medjay captain asked me that too , and I give you the same answer : how would an escaped convict find his way into the compound ? |
| 7 | ‘ I wanted to speak to you before I saw Ursula , ’ she concluded , ‘ because she might object to my giving you the private detective 's report on Maurice 's finances . ’ |
| 8 | Of course , I gave them the warmest spot in the garden , against my only south-facing wall . |
| 9 | I gave her the bare outline of your problem , Leonora — it was necessary to explain why I wanted an X-ray in a hurry . |
| 10 | I gave her the best books |
| 11 | I gave him the standard treatment and told him to come back immediately if he did n't get better . ’ |
| 12 | I gave him the same answer I gave you . ’ |
| 13 | The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’ |
| 14 | I gave him the bad news without preamble . |
| 15 | Absolutely they 're reading it with you so they 're with you so you 're you 're holding their interest even though you 're not actually saying anything , yeah , and again you may you may have noticed well another thing is once you 've once you 're written put the pen down and the easiest thing in the world to have a but if you want to make a point and you probably noticed once I once I put the red lines around the red boxes round there and I gave you the first demonstration of the Aldershot method I stood here okay . |
| 16 | And then when I gave you the minimum premium er it was like right okay well that 's , that 's the easy way out is n't it , twenty quid a month , okay I might do something for twenty quid because I was n't committed and that 's what exploration of needs is all about and it 's , it 's so easy for me to sit and say yeah that 's what you need to do but putting myself in your shoes , you know , a few years ago |
| 17 | ‘ Those papers I gave you the other evening — ’ |
| 18 | Is the way you go about a task exactly the same as that one I gave you the other day . |
| 19 | Of course you w of course you would Of course you would and it may be that what you will have to say is , Well look , erm I gave you the four per cent on the on the precision types and that that really has to stay , but by the time we by the time we 've done all the analysis on the er on the popular metrics , it will work out that it is is is only two per cent . |
| 20 | ‘ The map I gave you the last time . ’ |
| 21 | Why do you think I why do you think I gave you the fucking job eh ? |
| 22 | ‘ I gave you the wrong impression about our relationship . |
| 23 | So as soon as it began to move back , I gave it the biggest push I could manage . |
| 24 | Erm , let , let me give you the confusing bit . |
| 25 | ‘ In the psychic realm it means that we are free to follow any set of images and symbols which give us the right mental feedback — and the State encourages us . |
| 26 | Furthermore , their ascendancy accompanied the severest phase of the recession , which gave them the added incentive to try something different as some of their own areas were among the hardest hit . |
| 27 | Within fifteen months he secured a reunited Conservative Party , which gave him the longest uninterrupted party premiership between Asquith and Attlee , the final reduction to a rump of the Liberal Party , and a brief , innocuous baptism of power for the Labour Party . |
| 28 | Among those which gave me the greatest pleasure I remember the whole of Shakespeare , Shaw 's Androcles and the Lion , and Thornton Wilder 's Our Town . |
| 29 | I wish there was still something to look at which gave me the same feeling . |
| 30 | It comes to us from the age which gave us the Great Charter , and founded the House of Commons . |