Example sentences of "i give [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , shall I give the marmalade to you then ? |
| 2 | Do I give the point to ? |
| 3 | ‘ I give a toast to you all this joyous , happy Christmas , ’ said Mr Priddy , raising a glass of homemade raisin wine . |
| 4 | The speed limit on our motorways was reduced the other day , and I give a cheer for that . |
| 5 | Having checked that they are heading for Prague , I give a lift to the two young men at the head of the queue . |
| 6 | On completion of a job I give a report to the client , raise invoices and if necessary chase them up . |
| 7 | I give a number of dinners for industrialists at Downing street , and the dinner for business men was no different . |
| 8 | Therefore I give the cause of death as cerebral haemorrhage . ’ |
| 9 | In John 's Gospel , Jesus , when asked to identify the man who will betray him , answers , ‘ It is the one to whom I give the piece of bread that I shall dip in the dish . ’ |
| 10 | Now I give the task to you . ’ |
| 11 | I give the envelope to Enid . |
| 12 | Right some of our speakers are retires I I 've been retired quite a number of years , as you 'll have noticed I give the talk on income tax and I 'm a retired tax inspector . |
| 13 | Now I know said I was but I give the impression from that if you shake hands with them you should count your fingers afterwards |
| 14 | ‘ In my lunchbreak I give an interview re Re:Joyce to a gentleman of the Street of Shame . |
| 15 | I will discuss in a moment how such transport might be achieved , but first I give an example of its role in maintaining life . |
| 16 | I gave a scream of horror . |
| 17 | After the conference I gave a seminar on the inflationary model and its problems at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute . |
| 18 | I remember clearly one of the first times I gave a word of knowledge . |
| 19 | I gained a lot out of 1991 , but I gave a lot to it . |
| 20 | ON OCTOBER 2 I gave a talk on the British monarchy at an astrological conference in Oslo . |
| 21 | Last week I gave a talk to a parents ' committee in one of our schools on how to make a constitution — I felt I was contributing to the growth of grass roots democracy in South Africa . |
| 22 | When Aisha returned from work , coming through the door weighed down with plastic carrier bags , her coat smelling of perfume mixed with cigarette smoke , I gave a shiver of anger : I wanted to carry shopping bags like that and wear a coat like hers ! |
| 23 | In Chapter 2 I gave a breakdown of the five minimum requirements of the graph search mechanism . |
| 24 | I rang a sample of local authorities , but , because I prefer not to err on the side of scaremongering , I gave a figure of 20 to 25 per cent . |
| 25 | However , my sense of superiority was soon punctured when I gave a paper on semantics at the Philological Society , where my views met with scepticism and some hostility . |
| 26 | ‘ A few years ago I gave a lecture at Preston Polytechnic and afterwards nine black girls , some of them with toddlers , stayed behind and we began to talk . |
| 27 | Monday , 22nd : 11.00 : I gave a lecture on ‘ Grammar and Rhetoric : Two Aspects of Communication ’ at Jawaharlal Nehru University , where my hosts were the two . |
| 28 | 17.30 : I gave a lecture on Stylistics to the Teachers ' Forum , a group organized by of Osmania University . |
| 29 | In Committee I gave a list of the bus stations in town and city centres in England that had been sold off similarly to , although rather less spectacularly than , the station in Southampton . |
| 30 | If I gave a cup of wine to every vagabond who came whining to my door , how do you imagine I would make a living ? " exclaimed the eldest brother . |