Example sentences of "[prep] give [pers pn] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She was a peach , he thought lovingly , a perfect peach , and all his , provided he was satisfied after giving her a run on the highway . |
2 | After giving me a bit of a rollocking they went away telling me what happened to sentries who fell asleep guarding the magazine . |
3 | I expect somebody might of given him a lift up , I do n't know . |
4 | You could of given me a little bit more room . |
5 | Anyway , this somebody must of given her the idea , I think it was our local doctor oh you 'll be alright you know , you have to have to have them in forty eight hours you see so |
6 | So with it being another student union and it being like a conference in aid of the homeless and that , I did n't really want to sort of give them a load of grief so I suggested about sixty pounds . |
7 | So i i if you can er give me the background if I ask you to sort of give me a bit of background for the case , I 'll write it up here , and I 'll write down the solutions and see what , see what you 've done . |
8 | Er , er , are you going to sort of give me a timetable that I can read through to the phone and that it 's not booked up |
9 | We well ca n't you sort of give us an idea of what it 's about , the words and things you know and |
10 | Right the idea of this little chat this briefing before we go out and do the er driving assessments next week is just to sort of give you an idea and a and a bit of an inroad into what we 're looking at and what we 'll be doing next week . |
11 | Can you sort of give it a sweep ? |
12 | erm you might as well do a bit of a erm you know kind of give it a go and see what happens |
13 | After all that , one of the arms fell off recently , reminding me of the time the same thing happened during a recording of Give Us A Clue . |
14 | Funny way of looking at it I know but it 's sort of to give you an idea of how how the different ways you can actually do this this mechanism and brings out the er variations . |
15 | grading , instead of giving them a pay rise they get |
16 | He saw the children on the road and thought of giving them a lift . ’ |
17 | Ah , well , it 's only a matter of giving them a cup of coffee afterwards . |
18 | Well you , you could do the sort of token gesture of giving them the land like they did in the past , at least that 's showing what some sort of communism |
19 | At the same time , I have noticed that women academics can be ruthless bullies of girl students , with the possibly laudable motive of giving them the equivalent of a good shake . |
20 | Dad often helps folks with their gardens and he is going to ask them to give a donation to Camphill Development Fund instead of giving him a present . |
21 | What this means is that B should have raised the substance of his Convention claim under any domestic procedure which was capable of giving him a remedy , including any avenues of appeal , unless , according to Commission practice , there were some reason for excusing him from doing so . |
22 | Mr Ahmet Koc , aged 34 , a Turkish peasant farmer , described to the General Medical Council 's professional conduct committee how a Harley Street doctor had allegedly , under the pretext of giving him a blood test , stolen his kidney to be used in a transplant . |
23 | ATURKISH peasant farmer wept yesterday as he described how a Harley Street doctor had allegedly , under the pretext of giving him a blood test , ‘ stolen ’ his kidney to be used in a transplant . |
24 | ATURKISH peasant farmer wept yesterday as he described how a Harley Street doctor had allegedly , under the pretext of giving him a blood test , ‘ stolen ’ his kidney to be used in a transplant . |
25 | I was thinking , ‘ I bet nobody has thought of giving him a beer . ’ |
26 | But there was nothing she could do about it , short of giving him an explanation for the presence of Richard 's car outside her flat . |
27 | This initiative , in the event , paid off handsomely , both in terms of profit and in terms of giving us an illusion of independence when one of our consortia , which we shared with the Burmah Oil company , discovered oil in what is now the Ninian field . |
28 | Touring the fort , commanded by Sir Eyre Coote of the 37th Regiment , an unexpected knowledge surfaced : ‘ Dr Johnson talked of the proportions of charcoal and salt-petre in making gunpowder , of granulating it and of giving it a gloss ’ — although he admitted to Boswell afterwards that he had ‘ talked ostentatiously ’ . |
29 | Instead of giving it a grant , they paid back their money . |
30 | THE organiser of a big karate competition in Whitby says he has no intention of giving it the chop after casualties kept the town 's hospital at full stretch . |