Example sentences of "and give [pron] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great looker , and he may have shown his admiration because she had ducked her dark head in mock embarrassment and given him the slowest smile as she had moved away . |
| 2 | Yes , it uses eight watts against a hundred , well I say probably against seventy five , eight watts instead of seventy five and given us the same amount of light out . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll go and give her the good news . ’ |
| 4 | All I can do , Father Poole thought despairingly , is to try and give him the spiritual strength to resist such a temptation . |
| 5 | And give him the good news . |
| 6 | The British Government lifted red tape restrictions so that a charity here could fly in the eight-month-old girl , and give her the best chance of survival . |
| 7 | We shall treat them as a special type of word and give them the following rule : when a pair of prefix-plus-stem words exists , both members of which are spelt identically , one of which is a verb and the other is either a noun or an adjective , the stress will be placed on the second syllable of the verb but on the first syllable of the noun or adjective . |
| 8 | okay , again I mean these are things that talk about confirmation I mean quite honestly I 'm I 'd be quite happy if we had offices where people talk to each other ninety per cent of the time rather than send memos and faxes to each other , and on the whole we are really talking about inside the office with the people who we work with I mean obviously clients as well trying to find something different , we tend tend to find that it 's very very easy sometimes to make a phone call it 's much easier to make a phone call and to talk to that person and give them the personal touch . |
| 9 | So , ideally , we need to forecast changes in demand for personnel , particularly highly trained professional personnel , in order to have time to develop and staff more training institutions — medical schools , professional social work departments and so on — and then to recruit suitable trainees and give them the necessary education and training before we try to implement a major change in policy . |
| 10 | He did not accomplish much , beyond making it clear to the owners that , in return for their agreement to a national minimum , he would abandon Samuel and give them the eight-hour day ; but he was thought to have acquitted himself well . |
| 11 | So can you see it is vital that all of you keep your circulation going right and a good idea is to start it in bed so that before you get out and put weight on your limbs And the same with the rest of your body get your circulation going , get the joints doing a bit of movement and before you get up and give them the added job of bearing your weight . |
| 12 | And they 'll have my old one in and give me the extra bread for it . |
| 13 | Go on , God damn it , and give me the right stuff this time around . " |
| 14 | Your solicitor is the independent professional who will put your interests first and give you the right advice . |
| 15 | Win the new Renault Clio We unveil a fantastic new six-part competition to win one of this year 's most exciting models , and give you the first plant posers that lead the way to £9,180-worth of gleaming new car ! |
| 16 | After all , good results will qualify you for a better job , and give you the added satisfaction of proving to your boss that you are good at what you do . |
| 17 | The prominent white clasts are fragments of anorthosites — calcium and aluminium-rich rocks that make up the bulk of the lunar highlands crust and give it the light colour that is visible from Earth . |
| 18 | For them , the solution to the problem of pro-government bias is simple : the broadcasters should treat government and governing party as one and the same , and give it the same coverage as the main opposition party . |
| 19 | Monitor evaluator to actually check and to give you the pessimistic side of everything to break everything down why it wo n't work why this should be done why that should be done instead . |
| 20 | By evading him earlier that morning she 'd played into his hands , at the same time both increasing his suspicions and giving him the best part of the day to allay them . |
| 21 | She stopped in front of him , leaning forward confidentially and giving him the full benefit of the satin décolletage . |
| 22 | He was listening to old Legion marching songs and giving himself the Nazi salute in the mirror . |
| 23 | The ‘ keys ’ or trigger features required to ‘ unlock ’ these two types of cell are rather simple — it is just a matter of applying a small stimulus in the right place , and giving it the correct sign , an increase for one and a decrease for the other . |
| 24 | Accompanied by Manuel Garcia Morante , she sang superbly for over an hour , and gave everyone the greatest joy . |
| 25 | He hesitated before her a moment , and then he took her hands and bent his head , and gave her the solemn kiss of kinship ; and before she could draw breath and touch her astonished fingers to her lips , he was out of the paddock and away across the clearing into the trees . |
| 26 | He cleared the summerhouse so she would have a studio , and gave her the only key . |
| 27 | Bedelia was busy roasting dandelion roots , I thanked her for having us and gave her the royal wave . |
| 28 | Morton crossed to the cupboard and gave her the brown-paper parcel . |
| 29 | A waiter smiled and ushered me to a corner table marked with a reserved sign that said ‘ Intourist only ’ , and gave me the English-language menu . |
| 30 | ‘ Trust yourself ’ she says and gave me the best gift in the universe , one hour of total relaxation . ’ |