Example sentences of "[prep] give [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.

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1 The courtly interpreter of the festival , a Tunisian , after giving him some hashish jam , said to him in a tent that he hoped he had peace of mind .
2 But the idea of given you that money is to homework , .
3 And I think if if people like Thomson can sort of give him that sort of service he 's going to make life awfully difficult for the Forest de central defence .
4 I wonder if they would tell you of give you any
5 I 've been so frightened of giving her all my love .
6 Getting children talking about texts in groups after reading them is one way of giving them this power with texts .
7 It appeared that Josh Cohen had no intention of giving them any trouble — just as Hardy had predicted .
8 And my mum and dad thought of giving us that and my mum 's just lost her job .
9 The Moroccan women I spoke of earlier had a means of giving it some expression .
10 But , then again , it does do a good thing , and I would n't be against giving them some support ,
11 I do n't like to ask you but me mam asked you me to ask you if you could give her something for to give her some energy , she 's sleeping all the time now .
12 There was a touch of desperation in her reply which she knew he heard , but surprisingly he made no attempt to mock her , or force her into giving him any more reasons .
13 ‘ You think I talked Peter into giving me those earrings , do n't you ?
14 Now they were talking about giving him some kind of a disablement classification , which stung .
15 They 're obliged to charge us a certain amount for access , but they 're talking about giving us that money back as a grant .
16 Given that , whatever the justification for giving him such power may be , it has nothing to do with encouraging blackmail , such action frustrates the purpose of validating the consent and is to be discouraged because of its undesirable consequences .
17 He felt a certain gratitude to Eleanor for giving him this idea .
18 I expect she kicks herself for giving him those special facilities now , because it 's sure to be one of those jaw-breaking pieces of unreadability Americans produce .
19 He laid a small bet with himself that Fishbane had been responsible for giving her this photo-opportunity .
20 She admitted that , ‘ even though you knew that what you said did n't matter ’ , it was a daunting experience ; in fact ‘ afterwards , counsel apologised for giving me such a hard time ’ .
21 But I thank You for giving me this sight of a life of Truth .
22 Thanks for giving me this stuff .
23 ‘ Be a good girl and be sure to thank Cindy 's mother for giving you such a lovely time . ’
24 Many thanks to Pamela Vandyke Price for giving us such a memorable glimpse into the highly specialised world of the wine trade — and thanks also to those husbands and sons who allowed themselves to be pressganged into the responsible task of pouring the samples !
25 See I sometimes wonder whether it 's not worth giving them some kind of er a proper test .
26 They asked if he was cheating and decided that if he was able to do his work so well , there was no harm in giving him some more .
27 I did n't kill him and to was no point in giving them any more to gossip about . ’
28 It is a prayer , but I thank the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments for his courtesy in giving us that information , which I am sure will be much appreciated by the House .
29 But we er are welcoming the fact that there is a recognition of the rising population of Wales er in giving us this er this additional seat er primarily the additional population has not come in industrial South Wales which er er which er people think of perhaps as the most typically Welsh area , it 's actually in two counties of Clwyd and Dyfed that are erm growing most rapidly because of lifestyle migration , retirement migration erm into those two areas and that is why the additional seat , if you can put it that way , er takes from all the other four of course , is is the mid and West Wales seat which has been compared by the honourable member for Cornwall er tonight and it has only got a population of four hundred and one thousand but on the other hand of course it is such an extensive seat because the population sparsity in that area is much , much worse than even in Cornwall and therefore it is going to stretch from South of Milford Haven to the Llanrwst area really within probably twenty miles of the North Wales coast , it 's a who it 's the whole of two counties plus one additional very badly populated constituency erm in in the county of Gwynedd , an awkward constituency but one that we are certainly looking forward fighting and winning to give us the five out of five er now that er the boundaries are going through tonight and obviously it 's all in line really er to look at the other , the third order of course , the question of the registration of overseas voters in the nineteen ninety two election overseas voters had their first opportunity to participate in Westminster elections .
30 But in giving us this faith , he does n't go with a , a picking order into the warehouse of heaven , a and look there up all the great pallets and boxes of faith , or boxes of love , or boxes and cartons of peace , and say right , there 's one , I 'll give that to you .
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