Example sentences of "give [pers pn] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waddle may give them this on the left , but it would surely have done no harm to start the match with Dorigo 's dash instead of the perennial , peripheral Pearce . |
| 2 | I did n't mind this ; I was happy just to be there , hoping that one day she would give me some of the pretty wool to make something for myself but she never did . |
| 3 | You can give me some of the hard ones if you like . |
| 4 | The masters , when they punished , instructed the prefects to slog you with a gym-shoe ; one prefect would hold you like a trussed chicken and the other would give you six of the best . |
| 5 | We need we need four like that four quarters that 's good and then for each one of those when we 've cut it in two it would give us two of the new pieces so every one of those four would give us two new pieces how many would we have altogether then ? |
| 6 | Yeah , but what kind of people , what kind of people give their give me some of the different types of people |
| 7 | ‘ Give us one of the real giants in the semi-finals with a 15,000 crowd and the chance to say ‘ thanks for the money ’ on the way out . |
| 8 | A council they oppose so much that they give us one of the lowest grants per head in the country , poll tax cap us , take us to court over redundancy payments , criticise us over the Meadow Well management and so on . |
| 9 | Come on then , give us some of the fancy German stuff . |
| 10 | Lovely , very , very , good indeed , that , that is there now , sounds very good , just , erm , a few little things , would you try to give me more on the fifth finger , the E , the E flat , there , think of a crescendo , to that , want that come out , then , then it will , erm , I 'm almost frightened to put a crescendo in because it was n't the , a big one . |
| 11 | ‘ Do you disapprove of us , my angel ? ’ she asked , exalted by wine and overbearing , and took him down to the kitchen to give him some of the leftover chicken . |
| 12 | There we would see about 30 pissed-up shaggers giving it some behind the piled-high sun loungers ( no standards ) . |
| 13 | And they couldn't 've well for example with taxation , they could 've erm not taxed the rich peasants at all and then just put all their erm their sort of focus upon the poor peasants and got their income through them and also with land , they could 've just not given any land to poor peasants who were inefficient and given it all to the rich peasants and really gone for a capitalist state . |
| 14 | We gave her one of the little rooms upstairs , at the back . |
| 15 | I like to think that I share a love of the World Service and an interest in it with Mr. Gorbachev , who gave it one of the best unsolicited testaments that anyone could when he said that while being held prisoner he heard about what was going on in the world by listening to the World Service . |
| 16 | DEMOS took just under 55 per cent of the vote in the Socio-Political Chamber elections , which according to a proportional representation system gave it 47 of the 80 seats . |
| 17 | It took 54.03 per cent of the vote , which under a mixed system of direct elections and proportional representation gave it 114 of the 181 seats decided ; the Georgian CP took 24.42 per cent and 60 seats . |
| 18 | Though it may never be possible fully to understand what converts a man to a religion , Eliot 's view of Baudelaire gives us one of the best guides to his own conversion to Christianity . |
| 19 | By contrast ‘ Archiv Galleria ’ gives us some of the classiest presentation in the business . |
| 20 | Elaine Moss , in her short article ‘ The ‘ Peppermint ’ lesson' ( 1986 ) has given us one of the best accounts of the happy marriage of the right reader with the right book . |