Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suppose you think bringing me home gives you the right to tell me which friends I should choose , do you ? |
| 2 | I do n't think I ever gave him a wrong 'un , though . |
| 3 | At the special Cabinet , and curiously for a Prime Minister who wishes to get his own way when his colleagues are at best perplexed , he invited everyone else to give their own views before himself intervening . |
| 4 | I leaned forward , put my thumb under my lip and jerked it up to give him a close-up view of the long gash and the trailing blood-stained ends of the stitches . |
| 5 | Her lip trembled briefly as Tony hugged her and Maureen kissed her again before they left , but she quickly recovered and told them unsmilingly to give her love to her father and the family . |
| 6 | George Eliot had loved the bonnets and sprigged china — because she knew them , or because writing them down gave her power over them , made her gentle and generous to their meaning ? |
| 7 | I 'm c look let me just give him the two options . |
| 8 | First he sent him to the Jews to be tried as they said , then he sent him Herod then Pilate thought , if I scourge him that will satisfy them , let me just give him a beating and the folk will be happy and it 'll be alright . |
| 9 | The promise and the fulfilment , let me just give you a couple of verses there in John fourteen , John make er , Jesus he makes this statement to his disciples , in John fourteen , in verses sixteen and seventeen , and I will ask the Father and he will give you another helper , another word for the Holy Spirit , that he may be with you forever . |
| 10 | Let me just give you an idea , just that 's something else we do , let me give you some idea of , that 's a couple of examples very attractive books |
| 11 | Let me just give you a list of some of the things that , that God has provided for us in , by , and we receive it by faith . |
| 12 | Let me just give you a little illustration that might help , you know in thinking of the erm the fusion of the divinity , the divine nature and the human nature , erm is it Clarke Kent , is that the guys name on television , you know the character , you know the guy that walks around you know he 's the boy next door type figure with glasses and all the rest of it , he 's no macho figure that and then in a transformation take place and woof goes flying through the air does n't he , what is he , he 's Batman is n't he |
| 13 | So let me just give you two brief quotations from real press releases which I have , I 've got piles and piles of these things . |
| 14 | Who says I never give you helpful advice ? |
| 15 | Meredith told him twice to give it a bit more blood and thunder , but it was n't in him . |
| 16 | Her expression begged them not to give her away . |
| 17 | Ooh , I thought I 'd got someone else to give me some money ! |
| 18 | Before this , I had got someone else to give my lectures for me , because most people could not understand my voice . |
| 19 | From the simplest screens to elaborate drapes , Denise Brock shows you how to give your bedroom a fresh new look , plus novel ways to add your own touches |
| 20 | Artemis could not remember him ever giving her anything ever before . |
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| 22 | He grimaced , but I could see he was not unpleased , though he tried to hide it by marching me off to give his vegetables their evening watering . |
| 23 | And they 're giving quite a lot back , and I , I know you only give it as a , as a guide , Mr Chairman , but two hundred and fifty pound , I would think that would have to be doubled . |
| 24 | Yes , I know they just gave me a little walk on part . |
| 25 | 11 I lift it gently to give her a ride and a feeling the perch is part of me and not the cage . |
| 26 | Cos I can travel three hundred miles on my own at night so you know it just gives me a bit of safeguard . |
| 27 | A vet who wishes to examine a cat may approach it in this way before , for instance , holding it down to give it an injection . |
| 28 | ‘ You have to play more than one way to win the Championship and having him back gives us more options . |
| 29 | He resented the implied criticism , and defended himself by saying he merely gave her a book which he happened to have with him , rather than one he felt suitable for such a person . |
| 30 | In so doing he also gave his blessing to — what in effect proved to be the case — declaring the Transkei , or at least Bumbane , the first ANC liberated zone , however fleetingly , yesterday afternoon . |