Example sentences of "[vb past] we [vb mod] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ People originally came to us for help with choosing wallpapers , paints , fabrics and curtains , but we realised we could give them a much broader service , ’ explains Jon . |
| 2 | Well , after much deliberation and a family pow-wow or two we decided we 'd give it a go one Sunday afternoon , between the hours of 2 and 6pm . |
| 3 | Yet we felt we should give this fellow a chance , so my wife put it in a box and set it on top of the Aga . |
| 4 | ‘ Well I thought we might give her a spin on Friday night , ’ Yanto answered with a grin . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps he is n't quite what we 've been used to , but I thought we might give him a trial . |
| 6 | One day , in an elated mood , we thought we would give Eliot a surprise . |
| 7 | ‘ When Andy Saville broke his arm after signing two weeks ago a lot of people thought we would give up , but we pushed the boat out and bought John Thomas . |
| 8 | We thought we 'd give him some work this time . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ He said , ‘ let's try my method , you 've had the SMG , now try going to the top person and everything will be OK , ’ ' says Ramesh K. ‘ After the amount of hassle we 'd had , we thought we 'd give it a go . ’ |
| 10 | What with the Santa Cruz Operation 's new president Lars Turndal being the new kid on the block and a stranger to most of the people who 'll have to deal with him , we thought we 'd give a little of his background . |
| 11 | I 'm doing that talking to you look for Jim Bowen 's mobile phone number so I thought we 'd give him a ring that 'll surprise him wont it ? |
| 12 | I thought we 'd give her that . |
| 13 | They said we 'll give you five shilling and I used this very , very I said you can stick that up th wear it in your arse and that 's the truth . |
| 14 | this was on , in the morning , in the afternoon they said his leg would deteriorate , they 've got to take the whole leg off so he said we 'll give it another go and see what happens , course by this time he said the operation has n't |
| 15 | I mean , th tha when we took it over we , we got that , cos people said well , you know , just dishing out the oranges was n't there should be something organized so Rotaract said they would do we said we would give the money towards the prizes . |
| 16 | Why should n't Fanshawe just have said to his wife , ‘ This young lady has missed her last train and since she lives in London I said we 'd give her a lift ’ ? |
| 17 | in Southampton and he said we can give you next day this , they wo n't , they wo n't enter into it , we can give you next day delivery but it takes ten or twenty days . |
| 18 | They , they said well we can redo it for you , they said we can give you a reduction in it , and he sort of bartered with them , and I think he got , you know , a good couple of hundred pound off just for this little chip in the unit . |
| 19 | Arthur said : ‘ We wondered if she would like a little sponsorship and agreed that when she competed we 'd give her some meat . |