Example sentences of "give [pers pn] [art] first " in BNC.

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1 's kept us on file and will give us the first date available in June .
2 They 've just given you a first read .
3 I have asked no one else , I have given you the first opportunity of owning these things . ’
4 Give me a first name that begins with R and ends in an H.
5 Well once you 've got the first , give me the first one which did n't come out and then it 's easy .
6 This would help to ensure that you have mastered its main ideas on this crucial topic , and give you a first taste of the strategy in practice .
7 Win the new Renault Clio We unveil a fantastic new six-part competition to win one of this year 's most exciting models , and give you the first plant posers that lead the way to £9,180-worth of gleaming new car !
8 No she bought a second lo a second twenty lot of twenty and I give her the first lot back probably .
9 Give him the first half , and see what he would do .
10 As a matter of fact I usually just give him the first line or two and leave him to get on with it .
11 In the end I got them to give me the first aid outfit and fixed myself up .
12 All of these recommendations , however , are only to give you a first taste of the scope of theatrical writing .
13 The Senate ( upper house ) rejected the key elements of the bill when giving it a first reading on March 22 , 1991 , and conciliation between the two houses failed to resolve the issue four days later .
14 His early acquaintance with Pub ] ius Rutilius Rufus at the school of Panaetius must have given him a first taste of Roman optimates : later he had Pompey and Cicero among his admirers .
15 If they gave me a first , I would go to Cambridge .
16 They gave me a first .
17 But I have never forgotten advice that my research adviser gave me the first time that I was pursuing a dead end : ‘ It is important to recognise when to quit . ’
18 Absolutely they 're reading it with you so they 're with you so you 're you 're holding their interest even though you 're not actually saying anything , yeah , and again you may you may have noticed well another thing is once you 've once you 're written put the pen down and the easiest thing in the world to have a but if you want to make a point and you probably noticed once I once I put the red lines around the red boxes round there and I gave you the first demonstration of the Aldershot method I stood here okay .
19 It was a very helpful preparation and gave her a first real taste of teaching .
20 I well remember the long watches of the night when I and my baby struggled to overcome a physical incapability on my part , and I can not begin to tell you the relief on both sides when I strode out of the house , bought the largest tin of baby food I could find , and gave her the first square meal she had had since birth .
21 Inevitably , writing for the Cornhill gave him a first experience of the restrictions imposed on authors by the readers of quality magazines , but for the time being he was happy to compromise in the interests of his career .
22 Bukharin gave us the first fully algebraic exposition of accumulation in the Marxist tradition ; and as such his contribution marked a turning point in discussions of the reproduction schemas , since he was able to formulate general conditions of capitalist development .
23 Phrasal verbs come in for more attention with Phrasal Verbs Organiser from LTP ( by the man who gave us the First Certificate Organiser ) , while HarperCollins is publishing a Phrasal Verbs Workbook to accompany its dictionary .
24 For many years we sought access to him and the inner sanctum of his medieval palace , until in 1981 he finally gave us the first filmed interview ever granted by one of his line .
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