Example sentences of "[adv] give [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want our marriage to have any chance of success you 'd better give her the sack first thing on Monday morning ! ’ |
| 2 | See you 've got your purse in your bag you better give me the money |
| 3 | ( Mutengene is a harder word than Sasse so I had better give you the pronunciation : Moo-teng-genay . ) |
| 4 | Also it would be very wasteful of pump power and , depending where the transfer pipe entered the second filter/filter chamber , would not necessarily give you the oxygenation you wish for . |
| 5 | But as he had , I could only give him the answer he needed , without knowing for sure whether it was true or not . |
| 6 | This set will finally give us the numbers of vibrations of each symmetry species . |
| 7 | But he did not give her the opportunity . |
| 8 | Nevertheless she said , ‘ Why not give her the benefit of the doubt ? |
| 9 | I for one will not give her the satisfaction of even seeming to care . |
| 10 | The council tax will treat widows unfairly in the same way , because it does not give them the discount that they deserve . |
| 11 | In these stories the young characters learn that their greater physical power does not give them the right to treat the little people as playthings or inferiors . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ The supporters know I have always spoken to them in honesty and when I could not give them the truth I have kept my mouth shut . |
| 13 | She would not give them the satisfaction of seeing her beg . |
| 14 | In any case , she thought , I 'll not give him the opportunity to try . |
| 15 | I told the hon. Gentleman that I could not give him the information for which he asked until October , when the 1991 population figures would become available . |
| 16 | As fighting on board goes first one way and then the other , the captain strikes Thomas Fox to death with a belaying pin in an access of rage because the boy , genuinely unaware of the seamen 's plotting and almost insensible after hours at the masthead in icy weather , does not give him the names of the conspirators . |
| 17 | When Michel Rocard was replaced by Edith Cresson on 15 May 1991 , his official letter of resignation made it clear that President Mitterrand had asked him to resign , even though the constitution does not give him the right ( the President is responsible for ‘ nominating ’ the Prime Minister and for approving the Cabinet , but not for dismissing him ) . |
| 18 | Although on friendly terms with Matthew Boulton before going to Birmingham , he would not give him the details of a cannon ‘ that the Americans have constructed on a new principle ’ . |
| 19 | She would not give him the satisfaction . |
| 20 | She would not give him the satisfaction . |
| 21 | Perry offers to buy me a drink , but I will not give him the satisfaction . |
| 22 | An order for specific performance is one which requires the seller actually to deliver the goods and does not give him the option of paying damages instead . |
| 23 | And since she shared Humber 's and my attitude to our job , she did not give me the kind of pep-talk Aline would have come up with in these circumstances . |
| 24 | He did not give me the money for either . |
| 25 | ‘ He did not give me the poem , ’ Benjamin replied . |
| 26 | And I 'm glad enough to have you back , since you could not give me the grandson I hoped for — ’ |
| 27 | Why not give me the letter — unless there 's anything private in it — and the woman 's address . ’ |
| 28 | What the right-wingers are saying is that we will have the trade unions ' money but we will not give 'em the right to vote . |
| 29 | Perhaps by contemplating you will find something that is wrong in your proposition … dig the gold and look at the country , but we can not give you the country you ask for . |
| 30 | All this may seem like a put-off — but so many have died through lack of thought , facilities and impatience I can not give you the impression that they are going to be cheap and easy , quite the reverse ! |