Example sentences of "[conj] we give [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now you could say that was perhaps maintenance , but it 's all been cleaned , it 's been repointed , there are new lanterns , they 've done all the paintwork and they made such a beautiful job of it , it 's really almost for the craftsmanship and the care that we gave them a certificate for that as well . |
| 2 | They have asked that we give them a similar quantity from each department . |
| 3 | After being swamped by people demanding that we give them the freebie SEAL course , we have , after long and difficult nights of deliberation , come to a decision . |
| 4 | We did n't want our poor prisoner to get wet , so we gave him a nice yellow raincoat , you see . |
| 5 | Room maids also suggested improving the honeymoon suite , so we gave them a project to look at suitable fabrics and rival hotel suites . |
| 6 | We 're on the same pitch then , so we give them a game and that would apply in the Premier League . ’ |
| 7 | The trouble about that is , it 's now enforced upon us and that 's official target , we have to set priority of fire certificates because we need the money , bluntly , otherwise we have to find it elsewhere , so we give them a priority that they would n't otherwise have . |
| 8 | And we give them a murderer to go with it . ’ |
| 9 | We welcome busy people to our home , and we give them a pleasant place to work in . ’ |
| 10 | Erm the blacksmith and we give them a horseshoe nail . |
| 11 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |
| 12 | I do n't think there is any question about that , and I feel like we gave him a good shot at staying alive . |
| 13 | It is possible to live with wild animals , if we give them a little space . |
| 14 | But look at it this way ; if we give them the exclusive we only have to go on the merry-go-round once . |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps if we give her a little more time ? ’ |
| 16 | " He 'll be all right , you know , if we give him a chance , " said Hazel to Bigwig by the lake . |
| 17 | He said when were moving her bedroom around , if he , if we give him a shout he 'll come over and help . |
| 18 | ‘ The first 20 minutes will be critical and , the way he kicks , Botha could beat us on his own if we give him the chances , ’ said Carling , whose assessment was backed by pack leader Brian Moore . |
| 19 | Dorcas said he thought it would n't do any harm if we gave him a hand , sort of thing , ’ said the nome nervously . |
| 20 | If we gave them the five hundred , we wo n't , we are within , having said that , we 're not going to give everybody everything , I do n't think . |
| 21 | We shall end by observing that some adjectives ( in fact most of those discussed in Sections 6.7 and 6.8 , but not former , would-be , so-called nor late unless we give it an altogether different lexical value ) can occur with more than one value , that is , either as separatives or as ordinary ascriptive adjectives . |
| 22 | But we gave them a lesson . |
| 23 | 6 League Games have been played as to date ( 22.06.93 ) , with 1 draw , 2 wins and 3 losses ( we have to give them some sort of chance before we give them a good thrashing ) . |
| 24 | When we gave it a tightfisted 52% in Issue 79 , our main bone of contention was that it was ridiculously overpriced . |
| 25 | And , though we give you a finish that 's as hard as nails , everything is made to a remarkably gentle formulation . |