Example sentences of "[vb base] give [pron] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We love her so much and want to give her a lovely home . |
| 2 | ‘ Just stop giving me a hard time and leave me alone . ’ |
| 3 | In fact , the new Microchip machines have every feature you could wish for , including Crease Save to give you a nice rest from heavy ironing sessions . |
| 4 | So I tend to give them a wide berth wherever possible . |
| 5 | Quickly , I thread my way through the semi-darkness high backstage , and turn to give her a reassuring wave . |
| 6 | odd fifty P here , and pound here and I always try to give them a little bit . |
| 7 | Grolux tubes are great for promoting plant growth , but they do give everything a pinkish tinge . |
| 8 | I know north of border , nothing happens south of the border and like but , but we do deliver down here so do , do give yourself a little practise of that . |
| 9 | This book , these books are quite good because they do give you a little bit of explanation . |
| 10 | ‘ My God , they do give you a red face when you 're least expecting it . ’ |
| 11 | These colour finders do give you an approximate rendering of the colours you are recording , but they tend to be of lower definition than the black-and-white types of finder . |
| 12 | I 've given her a mild sedative and I 'll sit here with her myself until she sleeps . ’ |
| 13 | They 've given me a major interrogation — I 'd told you about the Englishman — that 's what I should have been working on , not an idiot fire . |
| 14 | Erm you 've given them a good start in life , it 's your money , enjoy yourselves with it . |
| 15 | I said , " You 've given him a bloody licence to do it . " |
| 16 | You 've given him an adverse marking . |
| 17 | I 've given him an anti-tetanus injection and told him not to shave over those scratches for the next few days . ’ |
| 18 | You 've still got the problem of addressing praise , because quite often you 've only , if you 've given somebody a specific task then it 's easy to praise or not to praise in that situation , but if they 've just come in , done their job and gone home , you know , just sat on a checkout for four hours , right it 's my time to leave , then , if they 've done nothing out of the blue , extraordinary , so they do n't do anything wrong , or , you know . |
| 19 | As John Major said , they 've given us a bloody nose . |
| 20 | They 've given us a German prisoner of war again . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Willoughby , you 've given us a brief outline of a frankly hap-hazard sort of life up to now . |
| 22 | Which you and you 've given it an extra name of mumsy S L P . |
| 23 | LAUGHTER is the best medicine and over the last two weeks we hope we 've given you a real tonic with our |
| 24 | Oh god I 've give you a bloody handful now so that was stupid . |
| 25 | If the Ashford Castle Hotel now wish to give me a free suite in return for this publicity , I shall not demur . |
| 26 | for my biscuit today and for myself I had a dinosaur , Miss gave me a whole dinosaur and I had the head arms , erm , the head of the big one |
| 27 | Er Robert said Charlotte who 's two and a half she 's always been pretty but erm Robert said right , mother 's babysitting on the nineteenth so organize I I 've been getting them into bed and then I 've gave them a little bit of milk or whatever they want and then they 've had toast with jam on . |
| 28 | They may be bottom of the table but their latest signings have given them a new lease of life . |
| 29 | There is no doubt that some worksheets are simply banal , and it may be these that have given them a bad name — especially the quiz type that simply ask " How many ? " or " What ? " |
| 30 | Addressing the Institute of Housing in 1989 , the Junior Minister of Housing said of housing associations : ‘ We have given them a vital job to do . |