Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local authorities blame the federal government for not giving them enough money to do the job . |
| 2 | We can find lots of reasons for not giving them ten points , could n't we really , if we really worked at it . |
| 3 | The girl envies the penis of boys , and blames her mother for not giving her one . |
| 4 | Still half asleep he smiled indulgently , scenting a victory , since he had wanted to be generous all day and had been feeling mildly irritated with her for not giving him the opportunity . |
| 5 | I shall always be grateful to him for not giving me the usual reply of an adult to a curious child 's questions , ‘ You 're too young to understand . ‘ |
| 6 | ‘ Thank you for not giving me away . |
| 7 | It also reinforces his case by demonstrating the implications of not giving him the cash that he needs . |
| 8 | Oh yeah I never sort of like give it here or else and all this power , I would state my case firmly , but then I . |
| 9 | In Foucault 's work ‘ sexuality ’ is seen as an historical apparatus , and ‘ sex ’ is a ‘ complex idea that was formed within the deployment of sexuality ’ : 'Sexuality must not be thought of as a kind of natural given which power tries to hold in check , or as an obscure domain which knowledge gradually tries to uncover . |
| 10 | It was a question of how to give them what they wanted . |
| 11 | I finished the food in my bowl , feeling quite kindly disposed towards Marcus for always giving me real meat . |
| 12 | Refreshed , exhilarated , I went next door again , the brandy bottle swinging from my hand , and made Selina curse her mother for ever giving her birth . |
| 13 | could we have possibly started out with not to give us exactly this cos it 's too it 's too much to find |
| 14 | First , Charlie remembering our first aid training in not giving me morphine , his quick thinking in turning the oxygen to full supply , and the Lord in granting my mother 's petition . |
| 15 | But Moubarak argued that he might have misjudged the colt 's preparation in not giving him sufficient work since he was found to be suffering from a minor skin infection on his legs after his previous race . |
| 16 | And he said it , I heard him say , as from tomorrow Give them your phone number Frank . |
| 17 | Plug it in here give your mam a penny . |
| 18 | We will be in touch before then to give you details of where in Lincoln 's Inn Fields to meet the crew on Friday morning . |
| 19 | If there 's a Cumbrian Fasteners one in there give it , take it back ! |
| 20 | The canny scribe had just persuaded the RAF to effectively give him the ultimate freebie , one which will remain the envy of flying hacks everywhere for many decades to come . |
| 21 | erm And I think erm we 've got to obviously give them as much respect as possible , because for them to reach the semi-final , the same as us erm they obviously erm have got some useful players . |
| 22 | He came in with the ideas , give the drivers and conductors everything they asked for whereby my training had always been to only give them what they were really entitled to , not give them anything extra but he gave them the earth and that erm did n't sort of go very well for the new Manager who came in , he had a lot of undoing to do there , that this fella had given away , in his six or seven weeks there . |
| 23 | Erm , also I , I wanted to try and cover the main points and it 's very difficult with a subject like that to , to only give you part of the , the story otherwise people would immediately say , well , yes , but you have n't thought about this or that . |
| 24 | Keith used to just give them all twenty pence , but lately it 's been more . |
| 25 | Well I 'm bothered about her health and that and that 's what I must emphasize to her if she 's listening that er as far as we 're concerned we would want to just give her some sympathy advice and support in relation to this matter . |
| 26 | Julie Mills moved into her Edwardian town house in London expecting to just give it a lick of paint . |
| 27 | Well , you need to just give it up and |
| 28 | they 're gon na make you 're gon na spend nearly a fiver sending all that out to people and really we should be encouraging people to be members and not to just give us money from time to time . |
| 29 | The trick with infantry is to use them in large units , at least four ranks deep , preferably more , and to always give them a banner . |
| 30 | Erm so you need to develop a system that 's going to always give you a method and is always making the work easier for you and not getting you lost . |