Example sentences of "[conj] give [pers pn] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George is also quite generous with his possessions , giving Lennie a larger portion of their food , or giving him all of his ketchup to keep him happy . |
| 2 | And they couldn't 've well for example with taxation , they could 've erm not taxed the rich peasants at all and then just put all their erm their sort of focus upon the poor peasants and got their income through them and also with land , they could 've just not given any land to poor peasants who were inefficient and given it all to the rich peasants and really gone for a capitalist state . |
| 3 | ‘ Do you want me to come back and give you one of my special back rubs ? |
| 4 | I mean , he he he took two steps dug his foot in ground and give him one of them ! |
| 5 | I 'll keep the boy close by me when we look for the treasure ; then , when we have both ship and treasure , we 'll persuade Jim to join us , and give him some of the treasure for all his help . ’ |
| 6 | And give her some of that stuff you 've brought to stop her row . ’ |
| 7 | It urged skins to ‘ I want all you skinheads to get up on your feet , put your braces together and your boots on your feet and give me some of that oooold moooonstompin ! ’ but it was a crude attempt to satisfy the skinhead market . |
| 8 | ‘ You can live free in my house , and give me half of what you earn . ’ |
| 9 | During the course of er this meeting you will hear from the Chairman and the Honorary Treasurer and we may well cover an enormous amount of the grounds that is relevant to you as commodores , members and officers of the Association and it might be worth , I am going to avoid what he 's trying to avoid most of that area because I believe they cover it in greater detail and give you more of an opportunity to find out precisely what 's been going on . |
| 10 | Then he found her mouth again and gave her another of those butterfly-light kisses . |
| 11 | Bend over , " he said , and gave me six with his Pop cane , a stiff , knotted bamboo . |
| 12 | Some were real scrambles and gave me hundreds of grey hairs . |
| 13 | But though he had taken all my poetic power , and gave me some of his in return , he still remained himself , his own man , his own poet . |
| 14 | Ruth put the shell away in the safest pocket of her waterproof , and gave him one of the chocolate bars . |
| 15 | Of the second here illustrated , the Moss Provence , Miller said that it had not long been known in London and the first time he saw it ‘ was in 1727 in the garden of Dr Boerhaave near Leyden who was so good as to give me one of the plants , but from where it came I could not learn . |