Example sentences of "to give [pron] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll get him I 'll get er Jane to give me a few dates and we 'll suit choose a suitable date and we 'll try all of the aspects everything about A L O work about the training , some of these we 've almost got solutions to ourselves we ought to be careful erm , if we can er draw up a proper agenda and discuss with him all of those issues |
| 2 | ‘ Well , you 'll have to give me a few minutes to get myself ready . |
| 3 | ‘ He was kind enough to give me a few minutes after Evensong yesterday . ’ |
| 4 | I 'll try , but you 'll have to give me a few days before you pull her in . ’ |
| 5 | Now if you say it in an ex , in a , in a do you want to give me a few examples ? |
| 6 | But it was typical of Pound 's kindness , even to a potential enemy or rival , that he should have so persisted in trying to give me the right contacts . |
| 7 | I 'll go through it again once we 've seen the film , and ask you to give me the main points that came out of the film . |
| 8 | The Syrian foreign minister who , after meeting Douglas Hurd , evoked the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 in which the British and the French secretly carved up the Middle East between them ( later using the League of Nations to give them the so-called Mandates as a cover ) , was not making some arcane and irrelevant allusion . |
| 9 | And to be fair to you I 'm again going to give you a few minutes to talk about that , not quite as long as the other time , then I 'll ask you to jot a couple of things down as well as , so I 'm just telling you in advance . |
| 10 | I would like to say that we should be concentrating on traffic management schemes which included traffic calming and take this I 'd like to give you a few examples . |
| 11 | I 'll ask Daddy to give you a few days off from the office . |
| 12 | In this article I will try to give you a few tips to make life a little easier . |
| 13 | Now , before speaking to that person , whether your boss or partner , ask your mentor to inspire you and to tell you the right time , to choose the right place and to give you the right words and the correct approach — and to help the other party accept what you have to say . |
| 14 | Now that you are completing the preliminary studies and will shortly be embarking on the more complicated part of the syllabus , I feel that , at this stage , it would be of benefit to give you the following lessons in an endeavour to press home to you the importance and value of your continued perseverance . |
| 15 | Erm I 'm in I 'm in some difficulty because this is this is a matter that 's arisen since the original matters er matters for discussion were drawn up so I 'm not able to give you the formal views of the council in that respect . |
| 16 | I said , well I 've got to give you the funny finishes for when you come to your finals . |
| 17 | When a priest came to give her the Last Rites , she gazed on the crucifix that he held before her eyes and felt her illness leave her . |
| 18 | He did go back to London ; he did defy the might of Zanuck , but the canny Alex Korda in London stitched up the contract later which , yes , was to give him a million dollars , but also tie him to some terrible films . |
| 19 | But I thought it would do Roy a power of good to give him a few games at the back as part of his education . ’ |
| 20 | His senior secretary had been instructed to cancel his engagements for that evening to give him a few hours ' peace before a six-month period in which his diary was entirely filled . |
| 21 | He might find it useful having an old man like me around to give him a few tips on how to manage horses . ’ |
| 22 | Johnny Dawes had a whipround in the pub as a sort of True Path benefit gig to give him a few days more . |
| 23 | you 're supposed to give it a good bees waxing once a year ! |
| 24 | ‘ We 'll have to give it a few days to get properly weather-beaten . |
| 25 | We just wanted to give it a few years to see what would happen , concentrating on what we hoped would come together some day . |
| 26 | I promised to give it the fifty-one hours , so that 's , let me see , forty-five left . |
| 27 | ‘ The real problem is once again the Government is trying to rush through a complex pattern of assessment without the resources or time to give it the proper foundations . |
| 28 | Recent issues of the journal Nature have featured new research on the sea-level rise which is likely to give us the biggest clues : the rise at the end of the last Ice Age . |