Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance I have given one which is in the last ten years we have nearly one and half million more people in work than we had ten years ago . |
| 2 | They accused him of altering the figures on receipts for money they had given for the release of prisoners , handing over a smaller sum to creditors and pocketing the difference ; charging prisoners for candles ; taking £5 out of the Poor Box to free a prisoner ; lending them money on their plate and watches which belonged to their creditors . |
| 3 | I said ’ Oh yes ’ and I saw the and he 'd kept the collar on , and of course he 'd given me the one that tossed his head up did n't he ! |
| 4 | It was quite clear that the immense strain and overwork was taking its toll , and two days later of course he had to give up and have a rest . ’ |
| 5 | A cheque for the exact amount of money she had given Ryan . |
| 6 | The physiotherapist may sit or stand in front of the patient , or may kneel on the plinth behind him , according to the type of guidance she intends to give him . |
| 7 | The biggest problem is containing the number of speeches you have to give , because despite the fact the industry has contracted , all the institutions that relate to our industry are still flourishing . |
| 8 | This is the third lot of antibiotics they 've given me |
| 9 | The TV star and founder of ChildLine said the article alleged she protected teacher Alex Standish because of help he had given her team in exposing child abuse at Crookham Court boys ' school in Thatcham , near Newbury , Berks . |
| 10 | The introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature that appeared some months after his death as The Discarded Image ( 1964 ) , based on the accumulated notes of lectures he had given for decades in Oxford and Cambridge , deals sympathetically with authors who , as he approvingly remarks , quote Homer and Hesiod ‘ as if they were no less to be taken into account than the sacred writers ’ ; and the break in the European spirit he saw as a consequence of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution is magnified here , in a sweeping argument , far beyond the familiar classroom shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance . |
| 11 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what offer of assistance he has given to the member states of the former Soviet Union to assist in establishing defence hot-lines . |
| 12 | " What kind of tip you want to give ? " |
| 13 | What kind of tip you want to give ? " |
| 14 | For the sake of consistency we have given the length of the Phoenix King 's reign and the rough dates in the Sigmarite calendar of the Empire . |
| 15 | I could kiss the man who told me that , two years of happiness he 's given me . |
| 16 | She 'd lost count of the number of people who 'd asked her that ; lost count of the number of answers she 'd given . |
| 17 | He saw them in terms of the hours of training he had given them and regarded their departure as something to be listed in the debit columns . |
| 18 | But that is not the kind of answer I want to give . |
| 19 | O nine O four six four one six four one any calls about dogs or er any other sort of animal you want to give us a ring call us now . |
| 20 | Jim never escapes the torment of self-doubt , even when in the remote kingdom of Patusan he has given all his energy and his intelligence , as well as his physical courage , to settling internal feuds and establishing prosperity — when , in fact , he has become to his people ‘ Lord Jim ’ . |
| 21 | Her class members thank her for the years of enjoyment she has given them ; her fellow-teachers thank her for her constant support and friendship . |
| 22 | The code of agreement he assumed gave Maud pleasure . |
| 23 | In the event of dispute he had to give testimony , whose value often seems to have been related to his rank . |
| 24 | In the first two years of office she had to give way to Cabinet pressure on pay rises for MPs , the scale of public spending cuts in November 1981 , gas prices , the Rhodesian settlement , the compromise on the EEC budget ( faced with the implicit resignation of Lord Carrington , who had negotiated it , if she did not accept ) and , while Mr Prior was at Employment , action against trade union immunities and the closed shop . |
| 25 | For years it continued to give pleasure at countless cinema shows in deaf institutes all over the country until demand for the available films gradually ceased . |
| 26 | In The Hague with Sien he had given himself over to light , like a Myshkin who was all love , meek as a lamb , becoming the woman 's servant and in this roundabout fashion returning himself to infancy . |
| 27 | The Rev. Donald McQueen , ‘ the most intelligent man in Skye ’ , was still with them , and while under sail he proceeded to give Johnson a pithy and useful outline of the landlord and tenant system as it operated , and as it proved unworkable . |
| 28 | Style , the more general concept , lies at the back of more large scale studies of style , when for example we try to give a stylistic characterization of a whole text . |
| 29 | Once you 've created the jobs for people it has given the economies an upturn and I feel it 's rather a shame that the erm the great problems of the of the Germans particularly have put that pressure for high interest rates through the er E R M , through those currencies and one , I think , good thing of Britain 's disaster last year , with with their position in the E R M , is that by lowering interest rates , if we only had a government who wanted to use that opportunity probably , we could train people for for work . |
| 30 | Then in case she had given an impression that London was not as good as here , she added , ‘ But there 's plenty of cabs . ’ |