Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trade & Travel kindly gave me a fez ‘ for my daughter ’ , which resulted in a complaint from one colleague that if I was going to invent one offspring why not a few more so that all the staff could have fezzes . |
| 2 | You said er , I told , I told him I was fed up with the General Secretary of this union that had n't given us any backing and you said sorry Phil , but I 'm not the General Secretary . |
| 3 | He examined himself from head to foot , assessing without vanity the beauty that had once given him an honest pleasure , and he marked without fear the changes that moved in upon him now daily . |
| 4 | If they confirm that he left at one-thirty , then that does n't give him much time to have entered Randall Lodge and killed Wetherby ; he was practically at Ollerton by two a.m. , driving slowly despite being in his Daimler . |
| 5 | A Japanese researcher has managed to create a fresh mild garlic that does n't give you garlic breath . |
| 6 | She managed to manoeuvre into the remaining space and got out to give somebody a piece of her mind . |
| 7 | As your man is single and has n't given us any name apart from his father 's , I take it he 's unattached . |
| 8 | Anne raised her hands in a placatory gesture and came across to give her a comforting hug . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's an inside to things , ’ he explained , ‘ and print only gave me the outside . |
| 10 | ‘ UNCLE ! ’ she squealed , and rushed over to give him a big hug . |
| 11 | ‘ Serve the Captain first — and do n't give me any , you know it 's bad for me , not more than a taste , one slice — that 's enough ! |
| 12 | And do n't give me that ‘ Yes , but it 's their talent that comes across ’ routine , because your idea of coming across must be very different from mine . |
| 13 | ‘ And do n't give me any crap about hunting and fur-trading helping to preserve the primitive economies and lifestyles of Eskimos and Bantu bloody tribesmen or whatever . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ And do n't give me any crap about a man 's got ta do what a man 's got ta do . |
| 15 | And do n't give me fish . |
| 16 | that 's a funny thing on the phone when he said about paying I said a hundred a six pound complete so I said and do n't give me a cheque cos I do n't want one ! |
| 17 | Always throw away broken toys and do n't give them to others — it just passes on the risk of accidents to someone else . |
| 18 | Try to limit juice and other sugary drinks to mealtimes when they 'll do the least damage , dilute them well and do n't give them in a bottle used as a dummy because these bathe the teeth in sugar for long periods of time . |
| 19 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 20 | Beckoning over a young man , whose look of boredom miraculously changed to one of interest when he saw Ellie , the receptionist gave a wry smile before instructing , ‘ If you 'll give him your car keys , he 'll park it for you and take your luggage up to your room — and do n't give him more than your car keys , ’ she added with friendly warning . |
| 21 | And do n't give it to me again . |
| 22 | ‘ They want no part of it and do not give it their support . |
| 23 | When you answer the phone , just say ‘ hello ’ and do not give your name and number . |
| 24 | Tina had never been married , though her mother had never given up hope , and did not give it up now , that a wedding would one day take place . |
| 25 | We rattled them from the first minute and did n't give them any breathing space . |
| 26 | People got in and out of the lifts and did n't give him a second glance . |
| 27 | ‘ He played tennis on a high level for two and half hours , and did n't give me time to breathe , and that caught me by surprise a little bit , ’ said Boris Becker , his prize scalp , after the German had lost . |
| 28 | Unfortunately it kept to the tops of the trees and did n't give me any chance of pictures . |
| 29 | You did n't do the work at all and did n't give me the book either . |
| 30 | Needless to say , I did n't buy the memory expansion and did n't give myself a Christmas present . |