Example sentences of "give away [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite this somewhat unstable basis the Company did quite well until 1630 when trade was dislocated by a famine in Gujerat , and in the next few years its legal position was undermined because Charles I allowed the Courteen family — whose interests in the West Indies had suffered because he had given away their rights in certain islands inadvertently — to trade with India without any regard for the Company 's charter . |
| 2 | Some of her best friends said rudely to her , ‘ Why have ye given away your money and other men 's also ? |
| 3 | You are , if I am not mistaken , twenty-five years old , which is an age when , I am well aware , you could still meet and fall in love with a far younger man than I. However , from what you have told me , you have already given away your heart and have set aside any thought of another such love . |
| 4 | My maximum bet had given away my hand and forced Judas to go one way where he would otherwise have certainly gone both . |
| 5 | A man who has given away his greatest secret can not afford further pretence . |
| 6 | A MILLIONAIRE has given away his dead wife 's jewels to 73 young women . |
| 7 | And the ship does not give away its own position since the ESM is completely ‘ passive ’ . |
| 8 | She 'd give away her last penny . |
| 9 | But her acknowledgement of her feelings for him was still new , and even while wanting to be with him she felt nervous , terrified that by some small look or too-ready smile she might give away her feelings — that she did n't want to say that goodbye — and that to do so would break her heart . |
| 10 | I may give away everything I have , and even give up my body to be burned — but if I have no love this does me no good . |
| 11 | ‘ But Thomas , would you give away everything you had ? ’ |
| 12 | Evelyn would have been shocked to hear anyone else say the same , but she had washed her hands of Rose Williams , and a mixture of tiredness and terror that Jackie might give away their secrets made her callous . |
| 13 | US jungle troops used to spend a week eating local food before starting active combat , to ensure their body odour — partly derived from Western foods — did not give away their location to the enemy . |
| 14 | And you could n't ask for copies of all these , you 'd have to ask for just one , and that would give away your interest , too . |
| 15 | Goibniu will never give away anything that is worth a button . ’ |
| 16 | And he , too , when asked , gave the angel some fruit from his share , explaining that he could not give away his brothers ' pears . |
| 17 | Most of these covers were made in the late eighteenth century or the early nineteenth , and often give away their date in their names . |
| 18 | If you do , you give away your age . |
| 19 | ‘ No man could come near to imagining the anguish experienced by a woman when she is forced to give away her child so that she herself may live ! ’ |
| 20 | Wanting to keep her for himself , and not wishing to give away her identity to his colleagues , he gives her a male name : ‘ Bob ’ — to the delight of the audience , who then laugh each time he uses the name . |
| 21 | You 'd think I was proposing to give away her share to a cats ’ home . |
| 22 | The trick is to give away what you reasonably can , to put straight into the waste-paper basket everything which it is not absolutely necessary to do anything about , or which it is now too late to do anything about , and then to begin to nibble away at the rest . |
| 23 | I mean I , I tend to think it 's a , it 's a play that 's got some very very funny bits in it , I do n't want to give away what the story 's about , but whilst there 's been the frivolity on the slopes , the whole thing starts to take on a , a , I tell you what it was , I remember reading an article by Dr Ruth , who said that good skiers are good in bed because the image of , of the skier is very potent , you know , and very strong . |
| 24 | We must persuade industry not merely to give away their tax- deductible loot as a sop to worthy environmental causes and charities but actually to find ways of integrating environmental capital into their accounts , as part of their business — a kind of natural account — a problem we are researching at the moment . |
| 25 | Would not it be the height of folly to give away our own independent nuclear deterrent while any potential aggressor has the ability to strike at us ? |
| 26 | If the cuddly Lord Spencer , for whom the nation held its breath as he walked down the aisle of St Paul 's Cathedral to give away his daughter Diana , will be sorely missed , it is far from clear whether the departure of his widow from Althorp will be seen as a loss . |
| 27 | If he fixed a price with the buyer , and the buyer asked for Modigliani 's address , the painter was likely to give away his work at a lower price or offer it as a present if the purchaser was shrewd enough to take him out for a meal and a few drinks . |
| 28 | In June , he told Puchberg bitterly that he had been forced to give away his ‘ Prussian ’ quartets for a song , just in order to have enough cash to meet his present obligations . |
| 29 | DJ Supreme from Hijack 's offering is particularly raw , and seems mightily generous : you would n't expect Terminator X to give away his secrets , after all . |
| 30 | And so , when the sun 's rage had died away , they finished celebrating their wedding feast with great joy , and the sun himself came down to give away his little cousin to her bridegroom . |