Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] [pron] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It looked as though it was on its last legs when you gave me a lift yesterday . ’ |
| 2 | He thought of the widow in her ramshackle hut at the end of the village and the gratitude in her eyes when he gave her a purse of coins . |
| 3 | ‘ I said I would give him my pilot sunglasses if he gave me his weapon . |
| 4 | ‘ If you 've got a pen I 'll read the directions as they gave them to the family . ’ |
| 5 | Scientists did not help matters when they gave it the generic name Oreamnos , meaning ‘ mountain lamb ’ . |
| 6 | By the time they reached a point half-way to the island the water had reached their hips so they gave it up as a bad job and began to enjoy themselves . |
| 7 | Yeah called me in two days so they gave me today and tomorrow off as well , so it 's sort of gone longer than I expected you know ? |
| 8 | But how I longed to be gallant , as they say ; to ask her if I might kiss her on both cheeks if I gave her my two violets . |
| 9 | Erm and it 'll also help us to get the the out of your way , we 'll get out of your hair within five or six days if you give us all the businesses . |
| 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 | He was the head of fine art at the school of art for 20 years until he gave it all up to paint fulltime . |
| 12 | About two years since they gave me that . |
| 13 | seventeen thousand pounds if he gave them a free cup of coffee . |
| 14 | Well the aye , the quality of the cattle cos it gave you a better grass , better feeding before that you see they bought some clover . |
| 15 | She came out and said he was definitely still in one piece but probably had cramp or pins and needles so we gave him some painkiller . |
| 16 | FORMER Goon Harry Secombe , who has had a second home in Majorca for the past 15 years , reckoned he had finally been accepted by the locals when they gave him the Spanish name El Gordo . |
| 17 | Like Alexei , he had nails on the ends of his fingers instead of talons , and he stared at Alexei 's hands as he gave him a filled cup , then raised his eyes and bowed solemnly . |
| 18 | Both sexes like the idea that women pretend , men because it confirms their suspicion that their partners are basically frigid and devious manipulators , women because it gives them a delicious sense of power to think that the delirium which men fondly ascribe to their virile prowess is no more than a hollow civility , like laughing at Grandpa 's jokes . |
| 19 | They particularly enjoy dealing with Orcs as it gives them a chance to outwit their larger and more brutal cousins . |
| 20 | Thank you Chairman , erm I 'm delighted to be the last person to present a set of budget proposals as it gives me the opportunity to draw attention to some facts that seems to have been overlooked by the representatives of the other two groups . |
| 21 | On one occasion he is alleged to have told a bald papal legate who had just excommunicated him for refusing to abandon his mistress that he would see the legate 's hair in curlers before he gave her up . |