Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] give [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Granddad got to give you some as well are n't he ? |
| 2 | He was older , seventy , and his legs began to give him such pain . |
| 3 | He was wearing brown basket-weave shoes and a suit with pronounced machine-stitching around big lapels meant to give it that above-the-ruck bespoke look . |
| 4 | Their close contact with individual children or small groups seemed to give them some measure of what children can actually do in a foreign language in a relatively non-threatening way . |
| 5 | He believed if only his parents had given him more confidence and the right backing , he would have made a very good male model . |
| 6 | But this fighter sheered-off without firing a shot , after our rear gunner had given it several short bursts . |
| 7 | Bossard was sentenced to 21 years ' imprisonment and once again it seems that the Russians were willing to sacrifice an agent , probably because Bossard had given them all the details he could of the American rocket-guidance systems , in order to enhance the credibility of Top Hat so that he could continue peddling disinformation . |
| 8 | Laurence had given her some money which fortunately she had n't been too proud to accept . |
| 9 | Yet strangely my time at Bristol had given me some relevant training . |
| 10 | It was a good thing that Edward Morris had given her another order which he had insisted on paying for in advance . |
| 11 | The driver of a passenger lorry stopped to give me some bread and carrots . |
| 12 | None of the changes had given him any added zest for life — or , for that matter , any desire to look for trouble where no trouble was self-evidently present . |
| 13 | He also denied that his wife had given him any details of who she was supposed to be meeting at TVL at the time of the party . |
| 14 | One of the girls my colleague interviewed gave us some information . |
| 15 | In view of the dicey and rapidly deteriorating state of our physical surroundings , largely attributable to our ham-fisted handling of the powers bestowed on us by scientific and technological ‘ progress ’ , it might have been thought that there was a place in society for young persons who had taken the time and the trouble needed to give themselves some understanding of the problems we have set ourselves , so that they could help to reduce the damage done , and the worse damage yet to come . |
| 16 | In the following example , the head is the first five syllables : Bill called to give me those |
| 17 | The old men in Beijing may not be sure of how to respond to the tactics that such behaviour makes possible ; certainly , previous governors chose to give them little experience of them , preferring the old , almost hallowed , practice of kowtowing to them . |
| 18 | the Edinburgh Society had given us some money , that 's not me |
| 19 | He certainly had guts , Ngune had to give him that . |
| 20 | A viewer with the same problem wrote to me , saying her doctor refused to give her any more and she was on the point of suicide . |
| 21 | Swan asked Amaranth if Harvey had given her any information about the new motorway . |
| 22 | Jean-Paul flicked the pages ; he could n't see why Edouard had given him this . |
| 23 | The Colonel , the Honourable , the Member of Parliament had given him more access to what nearly approached aristocratic companionship than he had ever enjoyed . |
| 24 | Still , Dottie Banks had given him more than most of the others . |
| 25 | He supposed that the man with the Northern actorish accent had given her all the advice she needed . |
| 26 | The audience was n't going to let Del Amitri get away and after a couple of minutes to catch their breath back , Justin and company returned to give us some more . |
| 27 | And now , to make the newt feel more at home , Lavender decided to give it all the pond-weed from the pencil-box as well . |
| 28 | Being one of the few local boys who had gone to grammar school had given him that extra confidence early in life . |
| 29 | Piphros had given her all the information possible in a limited way . |
| 30 | Lead technician said the training trip had given her more confidence about how to handle the machines . |