Example sentences of "and give [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had lost another close companion , another friend , one who had helped and guided him and given him such pleasure . |
| 2 | Rocky introduced them as Carl Wood , Jubal Cantrell and Austen Parker , but Jim Miller would have recognised the latter two as Jube and Red , the pair who had baited him and given him such a hard time before Rocky 's intervention had rescued him . |
| 3 | Grief had swung at him and given him two red eyes . |
| 4 | Because even if you you have sat down and spoken to somebody about the project for five minutes , and given them all the other information , |
| 5 | She had achieved much , and given them all an injection of hope with her sparkling personality , keen interest in their concerns and positive reactions to even the most difficult situation . |
| 6 | How many employee employers , I E British Home Stores , have paid off their full-time staff and given them part-time only employment . |
| 7 | For example , they have argued against almost every EC directive which would have improved women 's poor position in the work force , increased their opportunities and given them increased freedom to work . |
| 8 | I have dusted down others and given them sacrilegious new twists , incorporating nuts into rolypoly , for example , and using kumquats instead of lemons for old-fashioned Sussex Pond Pudding . |
| 9 | By the time you 've bought them some cigarettes and given them some money for the pub and said well if there er and the car has n't got any petrol so you pay for ten pounds worth of petrol . |
| 10 | We 've had times when we 've written to commercials and given them free tickets to dig ourselves out of a hole and things . |
| 11 | The dish is tenderised and given its unique flavour by rubbing portions of duck with garlic , salt and black pepper . |
| 12 | The nameless , the humble , the ignorant and the overlooked were his chosen material , to be recorded and given their true place , and if possible to be transformed by love . |
| 13 | Perhaps the most remarkable of all , the Norfolk Broads , which are actually nothing more than the flooded workings of a huge medieval peat extraction industry , have recently been raised to the status of an Environmentally Sensitive Area and given their own Planning Authority . |
| 14 | Overseas exploration and colonial settlement opened up vistas of fabulous riches ; the existence of the barbarians could no longer just be taken for granted ; they had to be fitted in and given their proper place in the ordinary man 's picture of world geography . |
| 15 | There was no evidence of actual impropriety , you see , but Puddephat admitted he 'd been friendly with the girl and given her extra coaching . |
| 16 | When she was rescued by the local authorities and given her present welfare flat , she asked that her address be kept a secret . |
| 17 | The doctor had come and given her two tablets to take , he had said there was n't a thing wrong with he that would n't be wrong with any red-blooded girl who had seen a fatal accident . |
| 18 | Their father had always indulged her every whim , and she was so pretty that all her life she had been admired and given her own way . |
| 19 | ‘ Definitely , people have been respectful towards me and given me some free time . |
| 20 | The doctor had been in and given her some sleeping pills . |
| 21 | Having started the design ball rolling and given himself some idea of cast requirements , Barry moved on to his foremost task that of constructing the camera script . |
| 22 | And they couldn't 've well for example with taxation , they could 've erm not taxed the rich peasants at all and then just put all their erm their sort of focus upon the poor peasants and got their income through them and also with land , they could 've just not given any land to poor peasants who were inefficient and given it all to the rich peasants and really gone for a capitalist state . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , Kenneth Branagh has saddled up the old warhorse and given it new colours . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , Kenneth Branagh , actor , director and entrepreneur , has saddled up the old warhorse and given it new colours . |
| 25 | Yeah but they 've tak they 've taken they 've taken it a stage further and er prettied it up and given it another facility . |
| 26 | The following morning Richard was taken down to the treatment room and given his first induction of air . |
| 27 | If he really wants to ensure that ring-rustiness does n't get him this time and given his limited comeback action , would n't he seek more serious preparatory work than dressing up as Santa Claus , albeit for charity ? |
| 28 | Following this success , McKee has now been promoted to official movie guru and given his own Without Walls series Reel Secrets ( C4 on Tuesday : 9.30–10.00 pm ) . |
| 29 | I think we all found this address very moving , especially Don MacIntyre , who had flown seven sorties as second pilot with F/L Poole 's crew before he himself was made a captain and given his own crew . |
| 30 | And given his own class position , as an émigré from the upper middle-class , a class serviced by the domestic labour of the working class , it is telling that he understands the contribution of coal to his class comfort , but does n't discuss the contribution of that other " service " , domestic service . |