Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom could see this so he gave me the key to his hotel room and told me to have a shower and put on some of his clothes . |
| 2 | The staff all know what 's got to be done and they go off and do it ; it 's just when jobs are different that I give them any guidance . |
| 3 | Good grief it must cost them a fortune to erm you know , pay for all these then , so they give you the Walkman to , while you 're doing this and they give you the batteries , tt |
| 4 | I complained to Northumbrian Water about this and they gave me a very dusty answer . |
| 5 | We want satisfaction , we want completeness in life , and so we try this and it gives it for a moment , but when it 's finished we 've got ta try something else . |
| 6 | So I says erm , Do you have any washing machines er that you have and all this and I give it all to him . |
| 7 | We concluded by singing the carol O Come all ye Faithful and I gave them a blessing . |
| 8 | It 's good no I tell you why I thought they were crap cos you gave me an album and it had the had Dancing in the Moonlight and that was good but all the other songs on it were really shit . |
| 9 | But if you imagine when you were about this high and someone gives you a ball to kick and you you fall over and you , Right I 'm not trying that again . |
| 10 | ‘ He was very candid and he gave me the benefit of his thinking about a lot of things , ’ Clinton told reporters after leaving the White House . |
| 11 | I find it unpleasant and it gives me an allergy so I 'd rather you did n't from my point of view . |
| 12 | Erm I 'm not saying that er there were n't problems in security and using public transport and fear of using public transport after dark , but we were quite surprised that compared with the rest of the U K it was erm not acceptable but it gave us an indication on , on where to go from there on , erm and also I think er the important factor that in the lower in Strathclyde that we 've actually consulted women in terms of er what they want and what they need er in the transport world erm in public transport and that 's not lip service we 've actually had discussions groups and that information has been fed into the large erm public transport review that were undertaking at the present time . |
| 13 | I got out of the car and ran to my front door , my mum answered the door , she looked quite different but I gave her a massive cuddle and went indoors . |
| 14 | Because it was the women themselves who were organizing it because they felt part of it they did n't see it as some sort of other people that were more politically motivated that than them giving them something to keep them out on strike , which by its very nature could could have been something that the people would have accepted for a while and then not accepted . |
| 15 | A council they oppose so much that they give us one of the lowest grants per head in the country , poll tax cap us , take us to court over redundancy payments , criticise us over the Meadow Well management and so on . |
| 16 | Did you want me so much that you gave them up ? ’ |
| 17 | My legs are warm and I give them a feel . |
| 18 | At the time Lady Moon , 54 , said : ‘ It was all so easy and it gave me a hell of a buzz , better than drugs . |
| 19 | from the six and it gives you four but then you give the sign of a larger |
| 20 | His jacket was flame-proofed and we gave him protective padding at the back , just in case . ’ |
| 21 | He came in with the ideas , give the drivers and conductors everything they asked for whereby my training had always been to only give them what they were really entitled to , not give them anything extra but he gave them the earth and that erm did n't sort of go very well for the new Manager who came in , he had a lot of undoing to do there , that this fella had given away , in his six or seven weeks there . |
| 22 | Now usually in the exams they work it so you ca n't do that cos they give you a graph already drawn and they 'll have sort of erm two squares is equal to one unit along the bottom but only one square equals one unit |
| 23 | At Oxford I discovered that most people were only too willing to be friendly if I gave them a chance . |
| 24 | I 'm sorry if I gave you a fright . |
| 25 | I 'm going to bring in some illuminated medieval books for you to have a look at , because what you 're going to do is to write this out in best on special paper using illuminated letters and if you 're very good we will try to get them laminated so that we can keep them as an example of what year seven students can produce as their best work , to say to everybody , hey look at this , this is very good , now we ca n't do that if I give you a sheet of A four paper and you manage to fill less than a quarter of that space , so you 're going to need a minimum of ten different things that you would like to say you think are important , you believe are important , you believe they 're valuable and your homework over the next week is to finish that list if you want it to rhyme , well yes you can work on it to make it rhyme , if you want to have what we call rhyming couplet , er just one moment I have n't said clear away . |
| 26 | Erm simple as that if I give you a list of telephone numbers you 're not likely to remember them for long , you might be able |
| 27 | Once she saw , sitting on the pavement before a café , drinking pale green drinks , and embracing , leaning over from their plastic chairs towards each other and embracing , the most beautiful couple ; the man with a face angular and ravaged and tragic , the girl dark and thin , with pale lips in a dark tan face : and she was so moved that she said , aloud to Rosie who was walking with her , " Look , Oh God , look at those lovely people " : and Rosie looked and stared and laughed and said , " Good Lord , what odd ideas you have , I would n't look like that if you gave me a hundred pounds . " |
| 28 | He had to ring up that and it gives you all the phone numbers of all the police stations in Bristol . |
| 29 | Er the butty paid you , you see , out of his tin , what he thought fit and he gave me ten shillings for the first one I done , first day I done , and I told me Dad when I got home , he says , Ten shillings ? |
| 30 | I felt ill and someone gave me some DFs and I felt better . |