Example sentences of "to give [pers pn] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , you 'll have to give me a few minutes to get myself ready . |
| 2 | . Is it possible for you to give me a few more names — of some people who are working in that field ? ’ |
| 3 | I 'll try , but you 'll have to give me a few days before you pull her in . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He was kind enough to give me a few minutes after Evensong yesterday . ’ |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | Now if you say it in an ex , in a , in a do you want to give me a few examples ? |
| 7 | PAMELA : Sir , I am so well satisfied with Mr. Belville 's affection for me and his well-known honour that I can not think myself obliged to any gentleman who should endeavour to give me a less opinion of either . |
| 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 | ‘ But I want to give you a little help with your wicket keeping . |
| 10 | In this article I will try to give you a few tips to make life a little easier . |
| 11 | I 'll ask Daddy to give you a few days off from the office . |
| 12 | I would like to say that we should be concentrating on traffic management schemes which included traffic calming and take this I 'd like to give you a few examples . |
| 13 | And to be fair to you I 'm again going to give you a few minutes to talk about that , not quite as long as the other time , then I 'll ask you to jot a couple of things down as well as , so I 'm just telling you in advance . |
| 14 | As I have described , she had consulted me many years back over a libel matter which I had discouraged her — unsuccessfully — from pursuing , with calamitous financial results ; but I was able to give her a little assistance in another matter which to some small extent repaired the damage arising from the first disaster . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Johnny Dawes had a whipround in the pub as a sort of True Path benefit gig to give him a few days more . |
| 17 | But I thought it would do Roy a power of good to give him a few games at the back as part of his education . ’ |
| 18 | I asked Make-Up to give him a few mosquito bites but he refused point-blank . |
| 19 | He might find it useful having an old man like me around to give him a few tips on how to manage horses . ’ |
| 20 | Well that , it speak the truth they were given to me by June , who 's very into that sort of thing and prescribed them for Simon and in fact has had to give him a few more now because he 's had his driving test cancelled . |
| 21 | Sometimes he grunted at me as if trying to get me to say something , but always I had to give him the same classroom answer : ‘ Ich verstehe nicht . ’ |
| 22 | We just wanted to give it a few years to see what would happen , concentrating on what we hoped would come together some day . |
| 23 | ‘ We 'll have to give it a few days to get properly weather-beaten . |
| 24 | And er , we 'll be a part , I know as councillors , Labour councillors we are caught in a trap because due the financial constraint that the government has placed upon us there is very little we could do but , oh I 'll get I I er crumbs of comfort from the speculators who may decide to give us a few social housing . |