Example sentences of "[adv] give [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heard Island , comparatively tiny , has little open ground and a smaller range of habitats ; comparative remoteness has presumably given it fewer opportunities to acquire a flora . |
| 2 | Simply to say ‘ I was going to speak to you about a wonderfully deserving and little-known charity but the producers have only given me twenty-two seconds because they 're cutting straight to a sponsored lard-slice in Abergavenny , so I wo n't . ’ |
| 3 | I 've only given you one sprout so you 're alright . |
| 4 | The arrival of the French colonizers a few decades later had merely given them another chance to demonstrate their indomitable spirit . |
| 5 | You see i well you , you better give me ten pound or I 'll thump you ! |
| 6 | Better give him some money . |
| 7 | As I said , I can only give you general hints . ’ |
| 8 | But I can only give you one answer . |
| 9 | whether it 's the afternoon or an evening or weekend it 's still the same price , but the , the mental patient actually employs you , you 're not employed by the hospital , but they can only give you ten hours a week which is five session so that 's only sort of twenty seven quid a week so you 're |
| 10 | They 'll only give you three months of Sky programmes . |
| 11 | Do they only give you free parts under warranty if it 's serviced with a ? |
| 12 | Reserve your answer for the cameras , or you may inadvertently give him more fuel for his theme . |
| 13 | Yeah , so give you some knowledge about the level of your group would n't it and what does it give chance to do ? |
| 14 | From there , she was able to make regular visits to Vietnam — and so give us essential reports on where our help was needed most . |
| 15 | So give us some indication of what sort of press release it was so that we know what we 're talking about in the |
| 16 | Bertrams by their generous returns allowance also take away some of our worries and so give us more confidence in making subscriptions , which include Reed titles . |
| 17 | She only give her two bits of toast . |
| 18 | I only give him one pound twenty . |
| 19 | And by the way , if we only give you fifty percent we 'll allow you to rattle our cage , which is a bit of a cheek really , but we 'll allow it . |
| 20 | They only give you one year labour . |
| 21 | If you only give us fifty percent , well I think we 've got funny conversations . |
| 22 | perhaps give them some flexibility , is that we could say , if that 's not acceptable to you , we will delay invoicing . |
| 23 | In the case of the bookmarks shown in the photograph on the opposite page , I drew a border around the section that encloses the flowers , not only to give them additional definition but also because the parallel lines at the base help to decorate the bookmark . |
| 24 | In World War II American servicemen who parachuted out of aeroplanes screamed the name ‘ Geronimo ’ as a war cry , perhaps to give them added incentive to jump from a great height , and the karate kiai has something of this in it , too . |
| 25 | Urgent or not , Sladen was experienced enough to give them thirty seconds of plati-tudes while they kicked their briefcases under the table , tugged at their waistcoats — both MI6 men wore them even on a hot June day — and shuffled their papers , although few of them were prepared to put much paperwork on view . |
| 26 | Even if only one peg in a hundred pegger is good enough to give them that chance . |
| 27 | But we are given such a huge sweep from birth to incipient death that the movie never draws breath long enough to give us any depth or conflict . |
| 28 | I hoped this trench was deep enough , and the roof strong enough to give us some protection from the increasing mortar fire that was now coming our way . |
| 29 | but Julia said to me before she came round with Hayden she said er , cos her mum and dad are still there , not her mum and dad , her mum and step dad are still there , they 're only giving them forty pounds for nine weeks , forty pounds towards the mortgage like you know , been there since after Christmas and erm , anyway she said ooh she said , Steve said er , that 's her husband , said to me ooh is n't Emily well mannered she said , she does n't walk in the house , she waits in the doorstep you know |
| 30 | That perhaps gives us some idea of what the regional taxation profile will look like . |