Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [pers pn] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They 're going to give him a gold watch . |
| 32 | They 'd relented , his Mum and Dad , and they were going to give him a parrot for Easter . |
| 33 | It 's a cold morning and I was going to give him a cup of coffee . ’ |
| 34 | But Corden , mindful that in football a firm show of boardroom backing so often heralds managerial upheaval , said : ‘ I 'm not going to give him a vote of confidence ! ’ |
| 35 | Boy , am I going to give him a piece of my mind when I see him . |
| 36 | ‘ He believes he can beat me so I 'm going to give him the opportunity to try . ’ |
| 37 | The dad will just give them the cheque , you know , they 've got thirty five pounds , pocket money just for , you know his dad 's going to give him the other . |
| 38 | It shuts him up for the time being , and I 'm not going to give him the satisfaction of thinking his insolence cuts any ice with me . |
| 39 | She was n't going to give him the satisfaction of knowing she dared not be alone with him for even a few minutes . |
| 40 | He had done a good enough job of getting her to do that already , and she 'd be damned if she was going to give him the satisfaction of letting it happen again . |
| 41 | ‘ Any damages are not going to give her a holiday in the Caribbean . ’ |
| 42 | He was going to give her a job . |
| 43 | Those two were going to give her the creeps if she really had to take them all the way to Titan . |
| 44 | ‘ Well , are n't you going to give me a clue as to what 's going on in your mind ? ’ she went on . |
| 45 | ‘ And when , ’ demanded the Countess of Donnington of her daughter , ‘ are you going to give me a date ? |
| 46 | At Heathrow Wendy Hoyte was being met by her husband Les and they were going to give me a lift back into London . |
| 47 | Telling me he 's going to give me a lot of money ! |
| 48 | ‘ Look , are you going to give me an explanation or not ? |
| 49 | Right facing this way Simon can you turn round as well please , Robert Right the first game very easy , I 'm going to point to somebody , we 're going to go through the alphabet , they 're going to give me the name of an animal . |
| 50 | and then we 're just waiting with Western House , I 'm going to give them a buzz about one o'clock and ask them what the hell they 're playing at ! |
| 51 | Then the really hard part is persuading the public to listen , because the last thing they want to believe is that the charlatan in the white coat is n't going to give them a cure for cancer , a promise he 's been renewing at regular intervals for the past two hundred years . |
| 52 | Well , he was going to give them the chance , was n't he ? |
| 53 | I 'm not going to give them the chance to say I ca n't foster any more , I know when I , I know now when I 'm going to stop fostering . |
| 54 | I was not , " he tapped the desk , " going to give them the satisfaction , you see ? " |
| 55 | Oh , I wish I had a two-pound coin for every toilet I 've burst into , hissing at myself : ‘ Stoppit will you for Godsake you 're forty years old will you stoppit STOPPIT GROW UP YOU BERK I am not crying I am NOT GOING to give them the satisfaction — waaaagh ! ! ’ |
| 56 | Now if like me , if somebody asked you how much it costs , you 're going to give them an approximation , it 's quite adequate to add on two pounds . |
| 57 | He slid off the stool and Frear said , ‘ Are n't you going to give us a tune ? ’ |
| 58 | ‘ Mr Oakley tells me that you 're going to give us a hand . |
| 59 | But does this mean that our friends from Dixieland — the Intelligence Service lived south of the river ‘ — are going to give us a hint of what they 're up to these days ? ’ |
| 60 | Having set it up , he said he was going to give us a demonstration coaching session . |