Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally , I 'd like to see Deane ( or whoever ) rested half way through the 2nd half if he 's having one of his off days , and Strandli , Whelan or Forrester given a 20-odd minute run out . |
| 2 | Should Orrell 's Morris be banished to Neath or Cardiff to give an ‘ English ’ scrum-half a chance at the No 9 slot ? |
| 3 | After Downes had been driven away , Morse and Lewis walked back to their own car , where Morse gave urgent instructions to the forensic lab to sent a couple of their whizz-kids over to the railway station — immediately ! — and to Kidlington HQ to see that a breakdown van would be available in about an hour 's time to ferry away a certain Metro . |
| 4 | There is an afternoon visit to the temples and a drive to the buried Buddhist city of Sarnath where Buddha gave his first sermon . |
| 5 | The journey culminated in a Friday night debate where Patten gave a lecture on proper posture . |
| 6 | Boulton & Watt gave up the gas side of their business in 1814 , and the development of more efficient gas apparatus passed into other hands . |
| 7 | formerly in John Street in the Adelphi , west London ; where Wardle gives his dinner-party after Pickwick 's release from the Fleet . |
| 8 | He was the soapbox orator who could quote Virgil or Shakespeare to give dignity to a bitter grudge . |
| 9 | What is tolerably certain is that he was still alive when he either entered into confraternity with Christ Church or Cnut gave them his name , and that when Cnut himself sailed for Denmark in 1019 it was to suppress trouble . |
| 10 | The man with golden goal touch at the County Ground is still Craig Maskell … the two hundred and fifty thousand pounds that Swindon gave Reading for him is beginning to look chicken feed … 15 goals this season … the last two came last week against Southend … tomorrow he 's off to Ashton gate to shoot Bristol City down … |
| 11 | It was in this spirit that Bernard gave Jane , at eighteen , a professional 's Hasselblad camera and appointed her company photographer , the first of their children to work for the company . |
| 12 | No one denied that ICI gave them first-class products . |
| 13 | It was quite a performance that Twomey gave every evening . |
| 14 | The title ‘ administrative criminology ’ is of significance in that it is the title that Vold gave to the classical criminology of Beccaria and Bentham ( as we saw in Chapter 1 ) . |
| 15 | What Trudy and Juanita and the rest of them are trying to say , it seems to me , is that Tod gives them the creeps . |
| 16 | But the almost perverse acceptance of this backwardness began to wilt before the spirit of improvement which gripped much of English society after mid-century , although Sussex gave up its secrets only with a hard battle . |
| 17 | Oh , here we got the the lists that Connie gave me , |
| 18 | the lists that Connie gave me , |
| 19 | The short , blunt answer to this question ( which is not the answer that Rousseau gives ) is that they can not . |
| 20 | The injunction that Churchill gave Hugh Dalton , in asking him to oversee the Special Operations Executive , was ‘ to set Europe ablaze ’ . |
| 21 | A somewhat different tone began to emerge relatively quickly , particularly in an address that Gorbachev gave to British members of parliament later the same month . |
| 22 | Neither Bream nor O'Leary gave evidence . |
| 23 | It was at last year 's parade that Elham gave him the idea when she said : ‘ I wish I could enjoy what I am experiencing here , but back in my mind there are too many innocent children left with no hopes and no future . |
| 24 | Ewen obviously knew his way , but although Neil gave him room he made no further attempt to break free , or even to reach open water . |
| 25 | I 'd like to ask you to er , read it through , and the application form that Jeff gave you yesterday , yes ? |
| 26 | The opening in Paris at the Grand Palais is scheduled to take place on the centenary of the one-man show that Vollard gave Cezanne in September 1895 , the only major exhibition of his work during the artist 's lifetime . |
| 27 | ‘ I did not want things that Picasso gave Douglas and me coming on the market , and Billy very decently gave me the drawing ’ . |
| 28 | Zambia , more astute than Tammuz gave hir credit for , knelt against the side of his chair : ‘ You reckon the cocktail will give you gut-ache , its taste is questionable , yet it looks beautiful , glowing there in the glass , smells divine , and the buzz it can give you is a temptation beyond endurance . |
| 29 | His conversation had the inconsequence that Chekhov gave to his older characters and it was larded with Russian proverbs , many of which he was suspected of having invented himself . |
| 30 | ‘ Talking of addresses , you mentioned that Angy gave hers to Delia . ’ |