Example sentences of "to give [pron] [art] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has just offered to give me a good rogering . |
| 2 | Better to give them a good life here than to let them suffer in the vague hope of some better afterlife . ’ |
| 3 | Now that we have a permanent place to meet we would like to start up a library as some folks can not afford to buy reading material so if you have any books that you have finished with or which are duplicates and would like to make room for new editions we will be happy to give them a good home where they will be used and appreciated . |
| 4 | I 'm having to swim them off the steamer and tow them in a dinghy to get our put the slings on them before we left the beach and just pushed them into the water and towed them off and hook the hook the into the sling and up them to give them a good wash before they went to Kirkwall . |
| 5 | Shower heads should be cleaned regularly with a nail brush ; every so often use a descaler to give them a good clean . |
| 6 | There was time when they had to bribe er , give some sort of er incentive to the foreman to give them a good time , then it was the shop stewards who would give the workers to the management who will do the o overtime . |
| 7 | There was a full social programme to give them a good impression of Scotland and its people . |
| 8 | ‘ We 're unbeaten in eight games but we have n't been able to win them and the players were saying beforehand that we were going to give someone a good hiding . |
| 9 | And John meantime seeks always to dismiss me as incompetent and neurotic ( probably , as people wiser than me , such as his own lawyer , say , he does this to suit his own ends and to give himself a good press and to live within his own fantasies and eccentricities . ) |
| 10 | It is designed to give you a good return on your money over the longer term . |
| 11 | We 'd really like to give you a good day . |
| 12 | If you 're the first correct entry out of the hat we 'll be straight on the phone to give you the good news and arrange the presentation . |
| 13 | ‘ Had to give her a good talking to . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't try to give her a good character , Mrs Fairfax , ’ said Mr Rochester sternly . |
| 15 | Annie was nursed back to full health by the kind nuns who adopted her and they were able to give her a good education . |
| 16 | She was his only daughter and the youngest of seven , and he had been at pains to give her a good education . |
| 17 | One of my sisters got quite hysterical when I did it to her , so Mum had to give her a good shaking ! |
| 18 | She looked at Gay , who was an only child too , but who had nobody to give her a good time , and then her glance travelled to Breeze , who had just admitted in her light-hearted fashion that she had no idea of what the future would hold for her . |
| 19 | Corky 's taking an age typing them all in — even slower since I threatened to give him a good lashing ! |
| 20 | In truth , I was just hoping to give him a good game . ’ |
| 21 | In truth , I was just hoping to give him a good game . ’ |
| 22 | He could have been paralysed for life … by a toy which been hired to give him a good time . |
| 23 | Before I left I was able to give him the good news about his friend Donald , one of the officers to whom we had given food and clothes on the banks of the Rovacchia . |
| 24 | Wicker , wickerwork basket the one had got a top on and er the big one which I had a hundred and forty loaves , I did n't have a top on but you had a waterproof sheet that you put over the top of that , but er the small ones had a lid on was hinged , hinged lid you could fold it backwards , as far as you could empty it and er what they used to do coming down Road you used to give it a good push and then jump on the back and freewheel down past what is now Lane er is that convenience still on , in those days the was a gents toilet , a public convenience where you went down steps , you were actually apart from the urinals there was toilets as well there . |
| 25 | When he opened it moths flew out and he had to give it a good clean to get rid of the cobwebs and years of dust that had settled inside . |
| 26 | Turn off the water , drain down and bale out the cistern to give it a good clean . |
| 27 | 6 assorted jars of chutney , unused ( I do n't know about you but I seem to accumulate chutney , pickles , lemon curd , etc. , faster than I can demolish it and rather than throw it away when useless , I 'd prefer to give it a good home — the best way of all is to sneak the jars into the National Trust shop at your local Hall or Towers and leave them among the chutneys already there ) |
| 28 | I make his bed once a week to give it a good puff up in the sheets . |
| 29 | you 're supposed to give it a good bees waxing once a year ! |
| 30 | We started many years ago by believing that innovation and uniqueness would provide the revenue to give us a good return , and for a time it did . |