Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] [pron] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sure enough , the kindly Fulham folk had pooled their meagre rations and we gave our guests a really good wedding breakfast with the cake and non-alcoholic wine , at about twelve thirty . |
| 2 | ‘ It was interesting to take on these different values and it gave us a new perspective . ’ |
| 3 | I felt happier about the British teams because they gave the impression that they were more concerned about the victim than the vehicle . |
| 4 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 5 | And I thought er and er I had wee tablets that you gave me a while ago , Brusdeximit |
| 6 | PROFESSIONAL footballers talked about their personal goals when they gave a talk on physical fitness to an Essex joggers ' club . |
| 7 | More or less handmade , a pocket-sprung mattress is expensive but the best bet for couples of differing weights as it gives each sleeper individual support . |
| 8 | and to St Giles and they heard about me and they offered me a month 's holiday and they were complete strangers and they gave me a month 's holiday |
| 9 | Good management has attempted to meet these challenges in an organised and rational way , maintaining that planned changes are better than haphazard ones since they give a greater sense of control to the school and are less likely to cause stress to all concerned . |
| 10 | Dear Aura of Life , Thank you for jumping and kicking me in tender places cos it gives me something to cuddle — a bruised gut . |
| 11 | The only messages that I give off are of faint delirium and desperate indecision . |
| 12 | Localized zones of compressional and tensional stress are common along strike-slip faults and they give rise to a number of distinctive landforms . |
| 13 | Other fires Gas or paraffin heaters should only ever be used in well ventilated rooms as they give off carbon monoxide . |
| 14 | Once he has come reasonably to the conclusion that this will happen , the question whether his decision to issue the particular instructions that he gave was a reasonable one in the circumstances is subject to a further test of reasonableness . |
| 15 | Now researchers think that the sudden drop in oestrogen-type hormones after she gives birth to her baby may spark off rheumatoid arthritis |
| 16 | Gwynn Jones received many other honours but none gave him greater pleasure than the publication of a selection of his poems , Detholiad o Ganiadau , by the Gregynog Press in 1926 , and the de luxe edition , issued in 1932–7 by Hughes & Son , Wrexham , of six volumes of selected poems and essays . |
| 17 | This method may be used as a check on the reasonableness of valuations on other bases since it gives an indication of the minimum likely value . |
| 18 | BY DAY , and often by night , Dr Graham Tydeman is a reassuring registrar in obstetrics at Falkirk Royal Infirmary , calming down anxious mothers as they give birth . |
| 19 | The MLTB information sheet also lists universities and colleges which offer suitable courses and it gives a list of useful bodies to contact concerning employment in outdoor activities , eg Glenmore Lodge National Outdoor Training Centre , PGL , Outward Bound etc . |
| 20 | Currency Options differ from Forward Options as they give the Option buyer the right , but not the obligation , to deliver one currency and take delivery of another at a prearranged exchange rate on a pre-arranged maturity date . |
| 21 | Normally you should have references in your possession by the time you conduct the final interviews since they give one more piece of information to assist with your judgement . |
| 22 | More importantly they provide training for local volunteers and they give health education advice . |
| 23 | Hatton was so impressed by his bad boys that he gave them colourful 1930s ‘ punk rock ’ pseudonyms — Alf Artful , Billy Dustup and Reggie Smashem — which are no more suggestive of obedience and docility than other pre-war descriptions of brawls , affrays , legless drunks , or street robbers armed with sand-bags and cut-throat razors . |