Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spunk accepts a glass or two of firewater and is led to the sack , where he proceeds to give her the pasting of a lifetime . |
| 2 | He was more modest than I 'd given him credit for . |
| 3 | ‘ I wanted to give them to his wife but she is n't here so I 've given them to him instead , ’ she said . |
| 4 | Either he loved Kirsty less than she had given him credit for , or he hated Shiona even more fiercely than she had ever suspected . |
| 5 | I 'm just gon na ring up cos mum could n't get through yesterday so she 's given me her credit card number to order things . |
| 6 | Okay so you 've given you 've given us erm the same company as erm that mm that may present a problem with us . |
| 7 | Politicians do n't have time to read screeds , so you have to give them short , pithy things to look at , We were doing all this anyway , of course , but the chaps at Barton , including Andy , are working on it much more effectively since we were able to say definitely that the DTI civil servants were agin them . |
| 8 | Willie ‘ O ’ is a bit stronger and a lot younger than Mick so you have to give him a slight edge when it comes to form and fitness . |
| 9 | But once they 're there , once you 've given them headroom , they seem pretty determined to stick around . |
| 10 | We read the , read the agreements differently to what they did but he 'd lean towards the drivers , conductors and he gave away a lot of what had tried to erm stop them from having because they were n't really entitled to it but he saw differently and gave it away and course once you 've given it away you , no way of retracting it , but then came in and , well , I mean he was a real transport man , his , his vision and his ideas were really good and he made it what it is today . |
| 11 | It 's once you start giving them out , that 's what causes the problem . |
| 12 | However , to my question : will your family be safe from the Church once you have given them Inky 's — Aspirant 's body ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Let Me show you how to live it , ’ but then once you have given Him your life He becomes distant ; you have to struggle to touch Him . |
| 14 | On top of all that Copper has always had a dust allergy and he got very congested so we had to give him powders to keep his lungs clear . |
| 15 | And it means nothing to the layman , two Greek words meaning ‘ grey ’ and ‘ marrow ’ , so we 've given it an easier name , infantile paralysis , which at least is English . ’ |
| 16 | They are now threatening to withdraw compensation from us although they have given us no written guarantee that our lands are free from contamination ’ , he said in 1976 . |
| 17 | So many returners admit to stage fright at the beginning of a re-entry programme , only to find that the expectations of managers and colleagues are much more realistic than they have given them credit for . |
| 18 | A decline in activity may now come about if both accord the region less strategic value than they have given it hitherto . |
| 19 | I was drug-free , like , so they had to give me them back . |
| 20 | Yeah , yeah six minutes past the hour so there , yeah , so they kept giving you doubts , now if you 're getting on this train make sure you get out at Lemington , so at about twenty past twelve , the twelve six went out from platform eleven , why , cos that will upset everything then , by , few of the trains kept coming round , then they said were very sorry but the Shrewsbury train will come in at platform ten that 's where we 're all waiting , so the ready train be outside somewhere , so , that came in just as the , the twelve , six went out about twenty past twelve these in and this girl got up so we said do n't get on this , you 'll never get to Birmingham you get on here , wait until we get on we said , cos they changed the train , oh she was getting all worked up , she come from Middlesborough , well I said well , well , anyway , we said no , there , there 's no trains for university no , nobody will be going at the right time will they ? |
| 21 | It 's going through that system , and once they 've given us the go ahead then we can go to the solicitor in Lancaster . |
| 22 | Blast , I 'd forgotten all about that little oddity , although it did give me pause at the time . |
| 23 | He has since got used to only having one sighted eye although it has given him a few recurring infections . |
| 24 | I 'm very fond of Mel , although he 's given me some hard times . |
| 25 | Hazel was beginning to feel that all would be well and that Bigwig had more sense than he had given him credit for , when Fiver sat up on his hind legs , cleaned his face with his paws and then , for the first time , looked directly at him . |
| 26 | Does the Secretary of State not accept that our valley councils have lost more in rate support grant over the past 10 years than he has given them in new money in the latest package ? |
| 27 | Not a medium so he 's given him the small so he 's thinking if if it does n't fit he 's still made the sale . |
| 28 | So a lawyer came , and of course I had my own office , confidential stuff , so he wanted to give it to me . |
| 29 | His anger was real but so continuously felt that once he had given it adequate ( in his own mind ) expression , it ceased to modify his actions . |
| 30 | Whenever I smiled , he smiled back happily as if I 'd given him something . |