Example sentences of "give [pers pn] [adj] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would have had no objection to telling them the position , in all honesty we could have done that and I may give them advance warning next year . ’ |
| 2 | And she said , Oh I 'll give them two biscuits each . |
| 3 | He said I 'll come up he said if it 's more than thirty pound Ange , he said you can give me some money next week . |
| 4 | they do n't actually give you one p any more . |
| 5 | well I 'll give you dry ginger this time . |
| 6 | Wo n't you let me give you some money -just to tide you over ? ’ |
| 7 | in Southampton and he said we can give you next day this , they wo n't , they wo n't enter into it , we can give you next day delivery but it takes ten or twenty days . |
| 8 | Because we know Italy so well , we can give you detailed information other tour operators simply ca n't . |
| 9 | It has time to dissolve minute quantities of minerals which can give it definite characteristics such as hardness or taste . |
| 10 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 11 | Unbeknown to Joan , her husband had contacted Richard with a plea , ‘ Give me three months alone with Joan . |
| 12 | I give you one point two , give me two and I say , |
| 13 | I know I give you three pound one week . |
| 14 | Yeah yeah might as well I 'll make the mincemeat , mince pies this and give you some Ann that 'll save you doing them , wo n't it ? |
| 15 | I only give him one pound twenty . |
| 16 | Give 'em high-flown names these days . |
| 17 | So it give us another shilling each . |
| 18 | At Beechgrove we have a well-established standard fuchsia , ‘ Dollar Princess ’ , with cerise sepals and a deep purple corolla , but Bill has done well in training a few new standards this summer and intends to give them early protection this year . |
| 19 | Have you got enough change to give her one pound fifty Jack ? |
| 20 | Now when we were taught sums like that , probably erm they were written down and we had special ways of writing it to distinguish between the two cases four times and then two plus one added together , to give us four times three equals twelve , or , four times two , which is eight , add one , which is nine . |
| 21 | One point , just to add to what Liz is saying , and I support everything she 's said , one further point is that accuracy is terribly important because if you actually have a mistake in the press release , and the editors publish it or it 's broadcast and a whole lot of listeners or readers write in and complain , they 'll find it very hard to forgive you because they get themselves in a terrible problem , so do be sure you 're giving them accurate information all the time . |
| 22 | I 'm giving you two weeks paid leave . |
| 23 | How about Phil Hilborne giving us mere mortals some tips on the twiddly bits in Jimi 's version of Like A Rolling Stone ; it loses me every time . |
| 24 | If we take the in-plane modes first , the two dipole arrows can be taken in phase , giving us another a 1 mode , or out of phase , giving us another b 2 mode . |
| 25 | They gave me 26 quid this week but I rummaged through the shed and found a couple of things to stick in as prizes . |
| 26 | He came back the next day and gave me another £1.2 million and told me I could spend it in any way I wanted . |
| 27 | I seem to vaguely remember you gave me some directions last time . |
| 28 | We recruited a team of twenty-five young executives whose firms or colleagues gave them three weeks paid leave for the election campaign . |
| 29 | It always gives you another number another counting number that you could use for counting your pennies . |
| 30 | And mum always used to say that 's what gave you that hernia that walking all the way for food ! |