Example sentences of "give [pers pn] five [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then before you do , will you give me five minutes of your time ? ’ |
| 2 | Who 'll give me five bob ? ’ |
| 3 | Then Carole 'll give me five pound a week now look , and then you finish in two weeks love and then you can order covers or whatever you wan na order . |
| 4 | They said we 'll give you five shilling and I used this very , very I said you can stick that up th wear it in your arse and that 's the truth . |
| 5 | If such a plea as this could be supported , the following would be a binding promise : A man might complain that another person used the public highway more than he ought to do , and that other might say , do not complain , and I will give you five pounds . |
| 6 | find it in the dictionary I 'll give you five pounds . |
| 7 | We 'd say : ‘ Bugger off — we 'll give you five minutes . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll give you five minutes , ’ he said wearily . |
| 9 | Some screws were more lenient than others and you learned when you saw who came round to wake you up how much you had to hurry — whether it was one who 'd put you on report if you were one minute late or if they would give you five minutes ' grace . |
| 10 | I 'll give you five minutes breath of fresh air , alright ? |
| 11 | Yeah okay well I 'll I 'll try and give you five minutes before eleven o'clock so er so you can nip over to the video room or wherever it 's being played . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll give you five seconds , ’ I say . |
| 13 | " Well , I 'll give you five weeks . |
| 14 | yeah , he said if he comes and give me a hand he says I 'll give him five P a hour |
| 15 | Scuba World in its magnanimity has given you five chances to get it right . |
| 16 | ‘ Give them five minutes , ’ he said grimly . |
| 17 | ‘ Give me five pounds ? ’ |
| 18 | Give me five minutes , then call your Super and tell him the situation here . ’ |
| 19 | Now , just give me five minutes to drink some coffee and I 'll ring Geoffrey . ’ |
| 20 | Give me five minutes to unsaddle Bess and come and have a drink with me . " |
| 21 | ‘ Give me five minutes . ’ |
| 22 | Give me five minutes . ’ |
| 23 | Just give me five minutes , okay ? |
| 24 | So I 'll gi , if I give you five pound that 's covers the the pools money for the last two |
| 25 | Cos they do n't actually , if you do something like that , say you put plus five , minus five and then sit down and , you 're the one that plus three and minus three you do n't actually lose marks doing something wrong , you can not be penalised for doing it wrong , you can only gain credit for doing something right , because they 'll , give you five marks to doing that bit right and then knock three off for doing something else wrong , they , they would never give you penalty marks , they will only credit for doing things right , but so often it 's quite like down as you want , you ca n't . |
| 26 | Give him five years and he 'll be running for President . |
| 27 | ( The assistant might ask the customer for an extra 5p and then give him five 10p coins in change , which corresponds to X=-1 , y=5 , z=0 . ) |
| 28 | The two trumpets and three trombones give us five parts , but we have no intention of spoiling the harmonic clearness by writing a fifth ‘ real part ’ for one of these . |
| 29 | I gave her your number and told her to give me five minutes to warn you first . |
| 30 | No I 've been here more than five years so they 'll have to give me five week 's notice . |