Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [vb mod] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many of my readers can give the answer to ⅜ ÷ 15/16 but are unable to explain why the answer is ⅖ ? |
| 2 | My return could give them a lift . ’ |
| 3 | My plan will give joy to some and satisfaction to many : satisfaction to Prince Richard because he can now join the king his brother , to Cardinal Bourchier because his mission has been successfully accomplished , and to the protector because he will have his nephews where he wants them — wherever that may be ! |
| 4 | ‘ 7.10 am on the dot and my husband will give you a lift to Torridon , ’ the woman in the council house opposite the hotel had said . |
| 5 | Well shipping Angus , so you know when the dredgers go on er er er creeping ahead , see we used to have er what we call the head wire there used to be a wire which was all stretched out say about half a mile and what you s and erm and all according what erm how much mud you were dredging for the depth of water and then my father would give the signal to say right , cos on the , on the head wire used to have a pull , we call the pulls and they were like er a jutted piece off the wheel and he 'd say five pulls ahead and we 'd say one two three four five right and we went ahead with it and then when we were dredging sidewards you see , used to sidewards , you never went ahead with it , not all the time you c you went sidewards across the river , and erm once you got ahead your side chains they moving up cos you got so far ahead th that the side chains were n't much good to you , so you had to then move your side chains so you got a little off the mud in an old boat and then re further up the river . |
| 6 | I tell you the truth , my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name . |
| 7 | My grandmother would give orders to the eldest and these would be passed down — as I got older I found this particularly galling ! |
| 8 | On arrival at Newcastle station he told reporters : ‘ I hope my boys will give United a good game ’ — but beyond that he was ‘ courteously discreet and silent ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ My English will give me away — ’ |
| 10 | A trust can not be claimed on the basis of the words ‘ See that you look after the fields , and so it will come about that my son may give you your sons . ’ |
| 11 | Made a special point of coming there because they knew my mother would give them a bowl of soup or what was ever on . |
| 12 | Their supervision of mints and markets in their civitates would give plenty of opportunity for taking a cut . |
| 13 | Strange how her heart should give a little flutter . |
| 14 | There was no comfort her priest could give Philip . |
| 15 | LEFT The exact recording of layers and their finds can give many clues to the history of a site . |
| 16 | You 'd have to suspect that they were holding the wife to ransom so that her husband would give them access . ’ |
| 17 | She noticed the girl 's apparent excitement , her shining eyes and lightness of step as she made ready for the adventure ; and again she wondered , surprised that her charge should give the appearance of a damsel in love , one shortly to be reunited with her bridegroom . |
| 18 | ‘ I Spent yesterday at Eastleech , Highworth and Letchlade , searching for her , but none of her relatives could give me a clue . |
| 19 | A teaspoon of domestic antiseptic , like Savlon , in their water will give them a much longer life . |
| 20 | I say their contemplation can give no-one pleasure ; they are there because their absence would be resented by the average man who regards a large amount of futile display as in some way inseparable from the conditions of that well-to-do life to which he belongs or aspires to belong . |
| 21 | They may delay the decision , in confusion or conflict over the choice now open to them ; but their bodies may give them messages . |
| 22 | Primary nurses will frequently have to ‘ negotiate ’ and act as a ‘ disturbance handler ’ when problems arise , but their thorough knowledge of their patients can give them the confidence to do this . |
| 23 | The professor claims that the customers are going to want ‘ more authoritative advice than their doctors can give … |
| 24 | Once you have established the sub-totals for each of the groups of costs , their total will give you a good estimate of the final bill of your proposed project . |
| 25 | I just wish its critics would give the scheme time to work . |
| 26 | If the whole team stands in a row , their numbers would give the result 123 , 456.789 |
| 27 | I would n't suppose that a cross-section of their neuroses would give similar patterns . ’ |
| 28 | He was satisfied the reasons which the mother advanced against adoption were not ones a reasonable mother would advance in the circumstances and were not reasonable reasons and that a reasonable woman in her position would give her consent . |
| 29 | According to Brisbane dealer Phillip Bacon , ‘ Bond was passionate about his Australian collection and its dispersal will give him more pain than many more valuable assets ’ . |
| 30 | Even their kisses might give him a disease from which he would die or become horribly spotty . |