Example sentences of "only give [pers pn] [adj] [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 | As I said , I can only give you general hints . ’ |
| 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 | Do they only give you free parts under warranty if it 's serviced with a ? |
| 8 | She only give her two bits of toast . |
| 9 | I only give him one pound twenty . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They only give you one year labour . |
| 12 | If you only give us fifty percent , well I think we 've got funny conversations . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | They tormented her enough on the grounds of her pale skin , her thin body and her grandmother 's pretensions to gentility and the shoes only gave them another cause to tease . |
| 16 | BOBBY GOULDING is no saint — but I 'm glad the disciplinary committee only gave him two matches last night after his trial by TV . |
| 17 | Josh only gave him some whisky for his own good . |
| 18 | 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 ! ’ |