Example sentences of "[pron] do [adv] give [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Tell me , my young friend , ’ he went on , ‘ those orders you have to shoot me — if I do n't give you the money you want — who gave you such orders ? ’ |
| 2 | Because the first one was quite small I did not give it the full ‘ advance ’ treatment that I usually do . |
| 3 | You came here once before asking questions and perhaps I did not give you the best answers . ’ |
| 4 | We 've had a few lazy laughs in the past , and I knew he carried clout , but I did n't give him the respect he deserved . |
| 5 | ‘ And I did n't give you the chance to put things straight , ’ she murmured . |
| 6 | I was talking on Sue , I was saying if you 've got a client who did n't give you the convenient forty two pounds , but said you 'd got forty or thirty pounds to spend , the first thing you 've got to do is take off the two pounds policy fee , so you 're left in this case , with thirty eight pounds . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's always this fear she wo n't be able to cope , so you do n't give her the difficult jobs ’ . |
| 8 | And since she shared Humber 's and my attitude to our job , she did not give me the kind of pep-talk Aline would have come up with in these circumstances . |
| 9 | But she did n't give us the satisfaction of raising her eyes to confirm the fact . |
| 10 | ‘ But she did n't give you the book . |
| 11 | We did n't give him the message . |
| 12 | It 's long gone — we did n't give them arms we did n't give them the sort of training you 're talking about . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's no use investing a great deal in youngsters like Robinson if we do n't give them the chance to prove themselves . |
| 14 | We do n't give you the crayons , only the picture . |
| 15 | And then , looking back at the pictures — sharp , full of insight , yet somehow slightly flashy — he wondered whether , indirectly , they did n't give him the best notion he yet had got of Walter Machin himself . |
| 16 | Admittedly the referee was a foolish fellow who kept re-penalising Swansea for failing to retreat 10 yards when he did not give them the remotest chance to do so . |
| 17 | But he did not give her the opportunity . |
| 18 | He did not give me the money for either . |
| 19 | ‘ He did not give me the poem , ’ Benjamin replied . |
| 20 | that 's another story with a an unusual ending cos I 'd have thought when you were saying that he was n't that he did n't give them the |
| 21 | Polly started to shake her head , but he did n't give her the chance to say anything . |
| 22 | He used the same line with his mother ; for once he did n't give her the real reason . |
| 23 | He did n't give me the impression of being badly injured . |
| 24 | ‘ You can see that he did n't give himself the time to finish it . |
| 25 | He was n't er able to be so positive as that , but he did certainly give us the impression that er that he 'd listened very carefully to what we had to say . |
| 26 | He do n't give me the position . |
| 27 | Christopher Pitchford , QC , prosecuting , told the jury : ‘ Whatever their feelings were on the home of an elderly woman being broken into by a gang of drug-crazed teenagers , it did not give anyone the excuse to take the law into their own hands . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ When you bullied me into this … charade , ’ she spat the words out , ‘ it did n't give you the right to boss me about . |
| 29 | The council tax will treat widows unfairly in the same way , because it does not give them the discount that they deserve . |
| 30 | However , although we can keep this association in mind , it does not give us the whole picture . |