Example sentences of "[adv] give [pers pn] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | I 've only given you one sprout so you 're alright . |
| 3 | You see i well you , you better give me ten pound or I 'll thump you ! |
| 4 | But I can only give you one answer . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | They 'll only give you three months of Sky programmes . |
| 7 | She only give her two bits of toast . |
| 8 | I only give him one pound twenty . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They only give you one year labour . |
| 11 | If you only give us fifty percent , well I think we 've got funny conversations . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | BOBBY GOULDING is no saint — but I 'm glad the disciplinary committee only gave him two matches last night after his trial by TV . |
| 15 | Now , when one of us is describing a restaurant , there is intensive cross-questioning about the quality of the puddings and petits fours , and commiseration if they do not sound up to scratch : ‘ Do you mean they only gave you one chocolate truffle each ! ’ |
| 16 | I 've just given her twenty pounds , she 's got no change so she 's going to drop me the pound in . |
| 17 | Kish has just given you one example I 'll give you one of the others . |
| 18 | Er say , I mean they normally give me three pounds do n't they ? |
| 19 | Now , just give me five minutes to drink some coffee and I 'll ring Geoffrey . ’ |
| 20 | Just give me five minutes , okay ? |
| 21 | Just give me one kiss . ’ |
| 22 | Just give you one example if I may erm which erm will serve to underline the sort of points that I 've been making erm to you . |
| 23 | He just gave her one look . |
| 24 | And this time it did n't give us two X it just gave us one times this one times that one . |
| 25 | If I only ever give you one piece of advice in life — which is highly likely on the face of it — it 's stay away from that man . |
| 26 | Or ten men working for three hours , that still gives you thirty men hours . |
| 27 | They 'd have probably given him ninety days if he had the right advice . ’ |
| 28 | So but I think with this I mean this homework , that 's the only thing I do n't believe in because they 've got ta revise it which is brilliant , I mean , at the moment but they also give them three hours homework a night ! |
| 29 | Quick give me four pence please . |
| 30 | Guinness Publishing Limited has kindly given us five copies of The Guinness Book of Records 1992 to give away . |