Example sentences of "give [pron] [adj] [noun sg] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Secretary of State for Employment opened the debate and has given my hon. Friend the Member for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) and myself his apologies for the fact that he is now absent . |
| 2 | They had given their only child the benefit of the doubt , but Paige had known , and Lori had hated her for knowing — and for not telling tales . |
| 3 | Can you can you give me some idea the sort of flavour of erm how your meetings how they g g go now ? |
| 4 | I can certainly give my hon. Friend the assurance that that is our intention . |
| 5 | As the spend over the three years will be more than that — last year 's spend was £17 million and I expect this year 's to be £25 million , making a total of £42 million — I suppose that I could give my hon. Friend the assurance that he seeks , but even if our figures were so way out that I could be caught on that commitment , when I consider the matter next May — assuming that the burden still falls to me to do so — I would have to make the same calculation as I made this year . |
| 6 | I can certainly give my hon. Friend the assurance for which he asked on resources for TECs for the initiative . |
| 7 | I can give my hon. Friend the Member for Isle of Wight ( Mr. Field ) no assurance about the eventual destiny of that money . |
| 8 | However , I can give my hon. Friend the undertaking that as long as she remains in the House such research will not be the Cinderella of the health service . |
| 9 | I 'll give you one example the union of communication workers for the post office has one full time worker , one full time officer for two to three thousand . |
| 10 | I give my hon. Friend the Member for Islington , South and Finsbury an undertaking that we are committed to a terminal at King 's Cross , but we are not necessarily committed to the expensive and grandiose project , which seems to depend on property values that were optimistic three or four years ago and are hopelessly pessimistic now . |
| 11 | Representation is redefined as a kind of quotation : When a text turns its attention to giving a physical description of a character it resorts to various strategies which give its presumed object the status of a representation . |
| 12 | I am happy to give my hon. Friend the assurance that we are not going down the route of a federal Europe . |
| 13 | However , we know that tonight 's motion , which has produced some disappointingly negative amendments from the Opposition , should be approved to give my hon. Friend the Minister a good send-off to Brussels , with the motion ringing in his ears . |
| 14 | To give it maximum prominence the statement concerning factorisation in Q[x] is placed at the end of this section ( 1.9.18 ) . |
| 15 | I 'll pin Harry Prosser 's great picture on my front door to give our old postman the idea of how it should be done . |
| 16 | Mansfield Town Caretaker Manager Bill Bearden has given his whole squad the day off to try to stop the spread of the flu virus . |
| 17 | I understand the reply that you gave my Hon. Friend the Member for Walsall , North ( Mr. Winnick ) , but is it not possible to ask the Leader of the House , who is present , when we will have a statement about Mr. Rushdie and the ayatollah 's decision ? |
| 18 | The answer that he gave my hon. Friend the Member for Dover ( Mr. Shaw ) and the answer that he has just given have comprehensively shot a number of foxes , but one is still up and running . |