Example sentences of "[pron] give an " in BNC.
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| 1 | On only one occasion was I given an address , and had to be content with those of head offices . |
| 2 | I will discuss in a moment how such transport might be achieved , but first I give an example of its role in maintaining life . |
| 3 | That does n't mean I necessarily disagree either , but if I 'm asked a question I give an answer . |
| 4 | ‘ In my lunchbreak I give an interview re Re:Joyce to a gentleman of the Street of Shame . |
| 5 | I give an undertaking , however , that we shall not attempt to delay its progress unduly . |
| 6 | what I do , I give an hour . |
| 7 | If I gave an interview I was the greatest guy in the world but if I said ‘ no , I want some time to myself ’ , they would n't give me the time of day . |
| 8 | I gave an exasperated , schoolmarm 's laugh . |
| 9 | I gave an impression of a steady upward climb in the prey-catching abilities of cheetahs , and the predator-avoiding abilities of gazelles . |
| 10 | It asked about six months in a limited industry , and I gave an accurate answer on that . |
| 11 | You asked me a question I gave an answer . |
| 12 | Let me give an instance from my own writing life . |
| 13 | Yeah , I see what y y y you 're getting at , let me give an ex er an illustrated example which I think might help or at least bring , bring the paradox out of those clearly . |
| 14 | Let me give an example Dirty Den got his comeuppance in Eastenders erm the Road Runner always er wants er always manages to get that crafty bull er to the follies of his own tracks . |
| 15 | Let me give an example of how this might work in terms of numbers . |
| 16 | erm a second example — let me give an illustration from Liverpool . |
| 17 | I mean for , for example , that , let me give an , I mean you can , you can compromise your decision on radio . |
| 18 | The common culture which Parsons postulated has three types of symbolism : ( a ) evaluative symbols which express moral standards ; ( b ) cognitive symbols which give an account of what there is in the natural and social world ; and ( c ) cathectic symbols , which define appropriate feelings about objects . |
| 19 | However , the edited edition of The Letters of Pte Wheeler contains several letters dating from 1823 which give an interesting account of garrison life on Corfu and other islands . |
| 20 | In elaborating such proposals there is admittedly a strong temptation to indulge in political rationalism : they are by nature proposals which give an important role to action on the part of a ‘ socialist government ’ or the ‘ state ’ within which a socialist government is installed , yet it is often unclear what such a socialist government would look like , how it might come into being and from where it would draw its mass support . |
| 21 | Atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons produces global contamination , and the most important radioisotopes of fallout are those which give an external gamma-ray dose and those which become internally deposited in the body , either by direct absorption or via a food chain . |
| 22 | Here are some examples which give an indication of the variety of structures which can be listed . |
| 23 | The dummies are dressed in worn clothes which retain a strong human scent , and some have mobile heads which give an illusion of life as they move into the wind . |
| 24 | Museums all over Scotland have vast collections of domestic objects , which give an indication of what was available in particular areas , but how and in which rooms they were used is often not known . |
| 25 | Of course the burning of one old man can not be described as persecution ; it was in no way a parallel to the persecution in England which gave an instinctively kindly woman the name of Bloody Mary . |
| 26 | It was a substantial , two-storey , L-shaped house standing to the east of the track with walls partly flint and partly rendered , enclosing at the rear a courtyard of York stone which gave an uninterrupted view over fifty yards of scrub to the grassy dunes and the sea . |
| 27 | Occasionally whole books were copper-engraved , the most notable example , probably , being an edition of Horace by John Pine ( 1690–1756 ) , which gave an effect of fine precision but was ruinously expensive , since the text was first typeset , then an impression on paper was transferred to copper , on which the engraver exercised his skill . |
| 28 | It is perhaps not inappropriate to compare them to the astronauts in our own day : they had broken into an uncharted region , blazed a new trail to God and to the depths of the self and had returned to earth like the heroes of antiquity , bringing news of a hitherto unimaginable realm which gave an entirely new perspective on the human condition . |
| 29 | Here a narrow gully gave a long , powdery glissade almost to the shores of the frozen lock , which gave an easy highway to within five minutes of our night 's accommodation . |
| 30 | In this case it was the prolongation of war which gave an opportunity to men lacking landed ties in England to show how important their presence in France could be . |