Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] give [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , Philip or somebody gave me the level premium . |
| 2 | I could see that she was scowling and stiffening into a Mark 2 temper , so I gave her an encouraging smile — which raised her , as I expected , to a Mark 3 . |
| 3 | I was scared of them but I was n't going to let them get away so I gave them a good run for their money . |
| 4 | There were a lot of young drunks staggering about , too — most at that noisy and unattractive stage where they might want to be your pal or pick a fight or just throw up on you , so I gave them a wide berth . |
| 5 | After half an hour I was still waiting , so I gave him an experimental pull and the hook came back minus the barbel . |
| 6 | So when you 're planning your retirement , make sure that you give yourself a reasonable standard of living in terms of income . |
| 7 | That 's right trying to find work these days can be demanding and extremely frustrating so you want to make sure that you give yourself the best chance of getting a job and one way to help is to do a good application form and know how to handle yourself in an interview . |
| 8 | She wanted to wound him as he was wounding her so she gave him a charming smile and said , ‘ How did you feel , Fernando , when Maria Luisa slid into your bed at that hour ? ’ |
| 9 | They have asked that we give them a similar quantity from each department . |
| 10 | We did n't want our poor prisoner to get wet , so we gave him a nice yellow raincoat , you see . |
| 11 | Although they give me a good start for next issue . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Because we have to have another door so they giving me a third off . |
| 14 | he 's after something , h his apprenticeship so they give him a thousand pound |
| 15 | I 've told you that it gives me a terrific edge in any sale where Kemp 's a bidder . |
| 16 | The only trouble is that it gives me an American accent . |
| 17 | The definition is adopted , of course , not merely for the reason that it gives us a further explanation of the difference between causal items and their effects . |
| 18 | Try a recording in which the camera looks at the class the whole time so that it gives you the teacher's-eye view . |
| 19 | I believe that day implanted in me a life-long craving for barbaric splendour , for savagery and colour and the throb of drums , and that it gave me a lasting veneration for long-established custom and ritual , from which would derive later a deep-seated resentment of Western innovations in other lands , and a distaste for the drab uniformity of the modern world . |
| 20 | Bacteriologists immediately recognised that it gave them a unique opportunity to study the evolutionary processes governing bacterial resistance — as a synthetic antibiotic it could not be influenced by preexisting resistance genes . |
| 21 | These days she was glad of any invitation to proximity , and curled up beside him so promptly that he gave her an amused sidelong glance as he took her hand in his . |
| 22 | To mark his disapproval of my doing so he gives me the wrong ticket and some change , of which the amount , as far as I can see , bears no relation to any previous transaction between us . |
| 23 | He describes his other grandmother as ‘ a wee frail woman ’ in a mob cap , smoking a long clay pipe and ‘ stroking my hair as I lay down at her feet with my head in her lap ’ , while her railwayman husband also ‘ had a great liking for me , and when he could spring to a halfpenny or an apple or some nuts for ‘ whiteheaded Benny ’ , he did it , Once he gave me a shining white metal watchguard ’ , a symbol of work efficiency which he wore proudly to school , ‘ swanking ’ with it hung across my chest . ’ |
| 24 | There she was lying on the floor with Bonfire of the Vanities under her head and me giving her a gentle kneading — spelt with a ‘ k ’ dear — and we were getting quite absorbed when all of a sudden the door flew open and in he came . |
| 25 | No she bought a second lo a second twenty lot of twenty and I give her the first lot back probably . |
| 26 | And I give him the whole book what lists names and numbers and what not . |
| 27 | And er I so so I brought her and her three friends that she 'd run , chummed about with them and I give them a good talking to for about an hour . |
| 28 | ‘ The Medjay captain asked me that too , and I give you the same answer : how would an escaped convict find his way into the compound ? |
| 29 | The penis stirs close to me , and I give it a wet nose . |
| 30 | So I said OK , and I gave him a real fancy one — it was like topiary , and I left him with a rude word on the back of his head . |