Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pron] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I asked Make-Up to give him a few mosquito bites but he refused point-blank .
2 I 'll get him I 'll get er Jane to give me a few dates and we 'll suit choose a suitable date and we 'll try all of the aspects everything about A L O work about the training , some of these we 've almost got solutions to ourselves we ought to be careful erm , if we can er draw up a proper agenda and discuss with him all of those issues
3 Federal Judge , Harold Green , ordered the immediate release of the transcript , saying the public has a right to know what the former president said .
4 I 'll ask Daddy to give you a few days off from the office .
5 His senior secretary had been instructed to cancel his engagements for that evening to give him a few hours ' peace before a six-month period in which his diary was entirely filled .
6 Johnny Dawes had a whipround in the pub as a sort of True Path benefit gig to give him a few days more .
7 We 've used both Danish Blue and Lurpak in our recipes to show you a few ways of bringing a flavour of the Continent to your cooking .
8 ‘ Or worse still , if he was going to have her killed , it would be a nice tidy thing to give me the same treatment , and Joel too .
9 … at the same time they should be getting the children to ask themselves the same questions that the staff are asking about the work .
10 We had a fast and uneventful run to Stornoway where the new propeller was fitted but , to my horror , in the haste to re-launch us the same prop .
11 If you ignore the ‘ whisper ’ of the wheel clamp , then you might choose to twist your ankle to give yourself the same message again .
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