Example sentences of "[pron] give [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I give him the blackcurrant jam , I give Myrene the blackcurrant jam , jam to take home for him . |
| 2 | well I have because we have erm , we 've got that Durham and Wearside telephone directory , so I gave Catherine the number and she said she 's got to ring her tonight about something I think what Catherine must of done was , well she must of send orders to her by post |
| 3 | She said , " I gave Bert the money he gave you for your fine . " |
| 4 | Then I gave John the task of making his own 3 x 3 x 3 cube using multilink cubes . |
| 5 | I gave Rex the kind of nod you could tell your grandchildren about . |
| 6 | What Scunthorpe managed last season Scarborough achieved despite the disappointment of seeing one of their most sustained periods of pressure relieved with the Steve Clarke goal which gave Chelsea the lead . |
| 7 | However , it was precisely the lack of consensus about Thebes ' — or anybody else 's — leadership which in the fifth century led to federalism of so unusual and developed a kind , and which gave Boiotia the cohesion , and the manpower , to defeat Sparta at Leuktra in 371 . |
| 8 | Graham 's production , performed on a mock-up apron stage , included wistful music written by Johnny Dankworth and slapstick comedy , which gave Crawford the chance to get noticed for what he did best . |
| 9 | The play is set in a seedy northern beauty contest , which gives Paula the chance to use her original Mancunian accent . |
| 10 | That would of made a good conversation , why did you give Michelle the glass ? |
| 11 | Paul , 39 , who gave Alexander the kiss of life at Wick , Mid-Glamorgan , said : ‘ He was fading fast . ’ |
| 12 | Duncan Lee , at scrum-half , took a quick tap penalty , driven on by John Ainslie who gave Witchard the scoring pass . |
| 13 | Aware that Brando had enjoyed his 1979 comedy The In-Laws , Bergman reworked the same basic plot around the star 's mythic bulk , casting him as the manipulative mafia don Carmine Sabatini , who gives Broderick the job of minding a komodo dragon , and adopts him as one of the ‘ family ’ . |
| 14 | She gave Charles the address , and looked so happy and excited when she asked the Stage Door Keeper to get her the Wimbledon number , that he quite forgave her for keeping him hanging about in the draughty passage outside his box . |
| 15 | Talking to him gave Jane the idea ( obvious , as most good ideas seem , once they 're thought of ) of producing a guide to the firm 's products , loose-leaf for updating , to be distributed to doctors and clinics . |
| 16 | a Scottish sailor marooned on the island of Juan Fernandez from 1704 until he was picked up by Captain Woodes Rogers 52 months later ; Woodes 's account of him gave Defoe the idea of Robinson Crusoe , and Cowper wrote a poem entitled ‘ Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk ’ , beginning ‘ I am monarch of all I survey ’ . |
| 17 | They gave Jack the chance to practise some of the underhand humour that eventually became part of his mystique . |
| 18 | He gives Keith the stare that works on small boys . |
| 19 | He gave Stieber the number he was calling from , told him to call him back from outside . |
| 20 | If he gave Lee the torch , he 'd let Jack and everyone else know where they were by mucking around with it , and if he did n't let him have it , he 'd most likely give them both away by having a scene . |
| 21 | He gave Sandison the address and asked him to do three things : check that Maidstone was all right , check that he still had his money and give him back his hat . |
| 22 | He gave Kellerman the location . |
| 23 | He gave Jed the address . |
| 24 | Edward IV made a first attempt to remedy the situation within weeks of his brother 's sixteenth birthday , when he gave Richard the land of Robert lord Hungerford , lying mainly in Somerset and Wiltshire . |
| 25 | Edward IV made a first attempt to remedy the situation within weeks of his brother 's sixteenth birthday , when he gave Richard the land of Robert lord Hungerford , lying mainly in Somerset and Wiltshire . |
| 26 | When he had turned two corners and gone about a quarter of a mile , he gave Dann the pistol . |
| 27 | He gave Kiselev the chance to comment on the Secret Committee 's recent papers and expressed particular approval of Haxthausen 's opinion that the serfs had to be emancipated before their dissatisfaction expressed itself in revolt . |
| 28 | Every weekend he gave Mossman the baker a shilling for his cart and every Saturday afternoon he pushed it from the bakery to the square in the High Street and harangued the passers-by about the stupidity of the forthcoming war . |
| 29 | On his return he gave Hocazade the Esediye medrese in Bursa with a salary of 10 akce a day , a post in which Hocazade remained for six years . |
| 30 | Very probably he gave Arp the drawing , who used it with the artist 's consent . |