Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The canny scribe had just persuaded the RAF to effectively give him the ultimate freebie , one which will remain the envy of flying hacks everywhere for many decades to come . |
| 2 | erm And I think erm we 've got to obviously give them as much respect as possible , because for them to reach the semi-final , the same as us erm they obviously erm have got some useful players . |
| 3 | He came in with the ideas , give the drivers and conductors everything they asked for whereby my training had always been to only give them what they were really entitled to , not give them anything extra but he gave them the earth and that erm did n't sort of go very well for the new Manager who came in , he had a lot of undoing to do there , that this fella had given away , in his six or seven weeks there . |
| 4 | Erm , also I , I wanted to try and cover the main points and it 's very difficult with a subject like that to , to only give you part of the , the story otherwise people would immediately say , well , yes , but you have n't thought about this or that . |
| 5 | Keith used to just give them all twenty pence , but lately it 's been more . |
| 6 | Well I 'm bothered about her health and that and that 's what I must emphasize to her if she 's listening that er as far as we 're concerned we would want to just give her some sympathy advice and support in relation to this matter . |
| 7 | Julie Mills moved into her Edwardian town house in London expecting to just give it a lick of paint . |
| 8 | Well , you need to just give it up and |
| 9 | they 're gon na make you 're gon na spend nearly a fiver sending all that out to people and really we should be encouraging people to be members and not to just give us money from time to time . |
| 10 | The trick with infantry is to use them in large units , at least four ranks deep , preferably more , and to always give them a banner . |
| 11 | Erm so you need to develop a system that 's going to always give you a method and is always making the work easier for you and not getting you lost . |
| 12 | ‘ I have accepted a challenge laid down by Mr Plumpton of Greycoats School that this school will field a tetrathlon team against his own team , good enough to really give them a run for their money , if not to beat them . |
| 13 | It would take about er it would take about three days like to really give it and then it would have to lie for a wee while to harden you know , the polish to harden . |
| 14 | I reckon Leeds need to win 14 of the last 18 games to even give us a prayer . |
| 15 | Now what that actually means is that the money er will go to your daughter if anything happened to you but if you re er was still alive come maturity time you could then take the proceeds yourself to then give her . |
| 16 | But even Helen Huntingdon does n't seek independence in order to freely give it up again . |
| 17 | Be , I used to bloody give them not-out by the umpire . |
| 18 | so I have Sally , and , and er , her mum always cooks a meal in the evening so I , I do something like toasted cheese sandwiches or beans on toast or something like that at lunch time , but there was one time when she wanted peanut butter and , all her brother used to ask , I , her brother does n't come to me now , he stays at home cos he 's going on fifteen , and as he 's next door but one anyway , you know if , if anything goes wrong he can come along to me , but all he wanted was my homemade blackcurrant jam , and now he does n't come any more I 've got to actually give him |
| 19 | is to actually give you another note for the moment for say |
| 20 | Well I think the thing to do is to actually give you the higher dose patches . |
| 21 | Then you know if you 've got to do it they 're not going to actually give you any more resources to do it because you ca n't say no . |
| 22 | Erm , on the emergency call out I getting surprised that this council insist that it 's lit if we do n't need it er at all service , I 'm sure , I 'm quite certain that we have never been told that there 's always been a question of anything that goes to actually give us a better call out service . |
| 23 | You could at least give them about £100 to pay for their expense . |
| 24 | Parents will not concern their very young children with the details of the doctrine , as that is quite unnecessary for the establishment of the early conscience , but they should at least give them some introduction to it as soon as the need becomes obvious from their inevitable questions . |
| 25 | The approach of the district judge at this stage of the proceedings is clearly crucial , although , whatever approach may be adopted in practice towards the parties , the review does at least give them the opportunity to meet and survey the relative strength of their cases . |
| 26 | But institutions could compensate for their loss of income by taking a more active role to ensure better performance from the management , which would at least give them the chance of a greater capital gain , so that their total return is unaffected . |
| 27 | The quota is ignored too often in British industry , but this stipulation does at least give you some extra security . |
| 28 | If that is the case , you will find that reproducing this Four Seasons design will at least give you the chance to use four different colour themes and to create four little pictures within one frame . |
| 29 | Even if you are mouse phobe you should at least give it a try because you might be surprised at how easy it makes common operations . |