Example sentences of "give [pers pn] five [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Give them five minutes , ’ he said grimly . |
| 2 | ‘ Give me five pounds ? ’ |
| 3 | Give me five minutes , then call your Super and tell him the situation here . ’ |
| 4 | Now , just give me five minutes to drink some coffee and I 'll ring Geoffrey . ’ |
| 5 | Give me five minutes to unsaddle Bess and come and have a drink with me . " |
| 6 | ‘ Give me five minutes . ’ |
| 7 | Give me five minutes . ’ |
| 8 | Just give me five minutes , okay ? |
| 9 | So I 'll gi , if I give you five pound that 's covers the the pools money for the last two |
| 10 | Cos they do n't actually , if you do something like that , say you put plus five , minus five and then sit down and , you 're the one that plus three and minus three you do n't actually lose marks doing something wrong , you can not be penalised for doing it wrong , you can only gain credit for doing something right , because they 'll , give you five marks to doing that bit right and then knock three off for doing something else wrong , they , they would never give you penalty marks , they will only credit for doing things right , but so often it 's quite like down as you want , you ca n't . |
| 11 | Give him five years and he 'll be running for President . |
| 12 | ( The assistant might ask the customer for an extra 5p and then give him five 10p coins in change , which corresponds to X=-1 , y=5 , z=0 . ) |
| 13 | The two trumpets and three trombones give us five parts , but we have no intention of spoiling the harmonic clearness by writing a fifth ‘ real part ’ for one of these . |