Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] give [pron] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He astounded his American masters by demanding that they give him a more worthwhile job or he would be on his way home .
2 After being swamped by people demanding that we give them the freebie SEAL course , we have , after long and difficult nights of deliberation , come to a decision .
3 Erm yes three pictures that you might like to sell if you give me a price for them .
4 Bill thought I 'd died on him the other night cos I was , you know , me breathing and everything , and then all of a sudden I must 've relaxed for a bit and not needed to breathe and he give me a shock he says God I thought you were dead .
5 But he complains that I give him the impression that I am holding back and am not fully committed .
6 So he leaves them in a room where the locks open if you give them a threatening look . ’
7 * So I 've been a bad boy at times but they reckon I ca n't walk out on a job if I 'm in the Jungle and Matt 's temperamental which means he does n't normally work unless they give him a hamper full of white powder but he seems to have kicked it and there are n't too many dealers swinging through the trees like Tarzan out here .
8 You ask how they know and they give you a vague description about the pelvis , etc. etc. , and you go away not altogether satisfied with the explanations .
9 In the sense that you 've got no control over your portfolio at all , and it 's just invested and they give you a statement .
10 She comes up to the house and starts bellowing , and just will not stop until you give her a cuddle !
11 Lung are never short of ideas , but their appeal is seriously limited because they give us a small taste of everything on their creative menu but seldom enough of one thing to really satisfy .
12 you can write down these words , that would then be given you a clue things that you could be saying to your customers , where , right , if you start thinking about the job that you 're doing and I give you the word where , right you think of the number of times you can use the word where , with a customer , right
13 They have asked that we give them a similar quantity from each department .
14 But while the large number of coins means that they give us a large quantity of information , their small size and the consequent brevity of their inscriptions greatly restricts the level of interpretation we can make from them compared with , say , a lengthy edict of a Roman emperor fully inscribed on stone .
15 Erm ha having gone through that you moved on er and gave out your business card fi first and then the buyer 's guide erm do n't know whether you 're happy doing it that way or whether it 's better round the other way , I I , you , you tend to think if you give somebody the buyer 's guide first when they start to look at it you give them your business card and take it away , perhaps if you do it the other way round they might s start reading the buyer 's guide
16 The Geophagus will tolerate London tap , but the Crenicara filamentosa and the Rams are doomed unless you give them the right conditions .
17 If you do not keep a dream diary , I strongly recommend that you give it a try .
18 But er no , we were talking and she said if I give you the money you wo n't go and spend it on the
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