Example sentences of "[verb] give [pers pn] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a standalone machine I would 've given it a fourth star . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was a joke really , because if she was one of the male officers then she would not have given it a second thought . |
| 4 | So anyway , I er , I decided to give him a second chance , so I explained calmly , and with grim patience , |
| 5 | Luckily she appeared so insignificant with all the bags that no one bothered to give her a second glance . |
| 6 | If undemanding schooling methods , supplemented by hours in front of cretinous , discontinuous TV programmes , have given them a thirty-second attention span , poor linguistic skills , therefore poor conceptualising and critical powers , and a craving for instant entertainment , then it will not matter what cultural policy a government adopts . |
| 7 | I have asked no one else , I have given you the first opportunity of owning these things . ’ |
| 8 | And in fact you 're probably going to be invited because everybody seems to want to give me an eightieth birthday party . |