Example sentences of "give [pers pn] [art] [det] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could he give them a few facts about himself for the company 's press release ? |
| 2 | I 'm sorry to intrude on you at this hour , but if you can give me a few minutes of your time you may be able to help me , and I 'll be very much obliged . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Sure , and you can give me a few tips on the leisure market . ’ |
| 4 | We , in return , had better give you a few tips on how to behave in a Grenadier battalion or you 'll come badly unstuck . ’ |
| 5 | Let me give you a few tips on how to make your pockets bulge … |
| 6 | Dangerous thing to say we 've already said , but preparing notes is lastly down to yourselves , I might give you a few tips on that . |
| 7 | ‘ Maybe the Commander could give you a few tips for your essay , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Let me give you a few examples of the way in which our departments work . |
| 9 | If you live in the Wallingford area and have a railway interest perhaps you might like to join this enthusiastic group and give them a few hours of your time . |
| 10 | BY THE time they got to Woodstock they might have been half a million strong , but give them a few days in the mud and they 'd soon wandered off into an acid daze looking for luxuries like a toilet , somewhere to sleep and a decent tofu burger . |
| 11 | If I mention them and then perhaps give you a few examples of the sort of facilities which erm which we have available . |
| 12 | Inspector Montgomery asks if you would be kind enough to step into the library when you 've finished your coffee , and give him a few minutes of your time . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ He was kind enough to give me a few minutes after Evensong yesterday . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | He might find it useful having an old man like me around to give him a few tips on how to manage horses . ’ |
| 16 | Had I an opportunity I should have great pleasure in giving you a few hints on this subject which might not be useless . |
| 17 | erm fucking indoor murder ball , the seat , cushion and stuff like that , its fucking well out of order piss up games oh that 's right I think we played in , I think we played , you know that British bull dog thing ? , we managed to clear all the fucking the nappy chair this and the chairs out the way , we were playing this British bull dog sort of thing and the only thing , the only , the only difference was when you got caught , got , everybody was fucking giving you a few thumps in the arm , for good measure like , and we played about four of this and every time this cocky little son of a bitch did n't get caught , he was always the last person , so we fucking said , we said , me and this other guy 's that are in our troop and that er , we said right we 'll get him , so when , when everybody sort of go for it right just after the one person in the middle , said fucking just get this guy and fucking pin him down and do something to him right , we did n't , I think we said we 'd just get him , yeah that 's a good idea , so he 's gone right go and his mate he 's fucking took off two steps and there 's eight of us fucking dived on top of him , what the fucking , he 's struggling , get off you cunt so we pinned him down and at first we was just going to de-bag him in front of the women , we 've taken his boots off and his trousers and that and shave his bollocks , yeah the whole fucking yeah , it was like an audience , all that they sort of gathered up the chairs and the tables fuck have his bollocks shaved . |
| 18 | Ballater waited awkwardly for the perfunctory thank you kiss , giving her a few moments before turning away . |
| 19 | Mauve had given him a few casts of hands and feet to take home and study . |
| 20 | I did n't actually visit Mum for very long but old Mrs McSporran told me all the news of the Senior Citizens and our deacon gave me a few tips about growing rhubarb . |
| 21 | Five minutes later , an Arab in a small blue van stopped and gave me a few kilos of tangerines . |
| 22 | Anyway , he gave them a few examples of the jobs he was looking for and they told him he was unqualified . |
| 23 | I gave her a few days off when William went away . |
| 24 | Some of them smelt of oil or grease of a kind she did n't recognize I gave her a few samples from the labs without telling her what they were and she picked out gun oil as being the nearest . |
| 25 | After that I got us on to less dangerous ground , and I gave him a few tit-bits of intelligence , which was probably what he 'd been after . |
| 26 | And erm we er I gave him a few tips on what to revise on |
| 27 | She kept a pretty green budgerigar called Peter , who once dropped dead in his cage but came back to life when Nanny gave him a few drops of gin squeezed from a wad of cotton-wool . |
| 28 | Joe can swerve a ball , but Fred gives him a few tips on spinning it , too — without picking the seam ! |
| 29 | He gives us a few outlines of ‘ paper logic ’ followed by a paragraph or two describing some of the religious experiences themselves . |
| 30 | Unlike our other two children , our daughter Alicia has given us a few problems with her nightly stirrings . |