Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [vb mod] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | but we used to take them to the pictures on Saturday afternoon my mum used to give me nine pence |
| 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 | ‘ My English will give me away — ’ |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Made a special point of coming there because they knew my mother would give them a bowl of soup or what was ever on . |
| 11 | Shout , they 'd shout something but er well since we 've been living up here , my mother used to give , the man used to come for the order for the grocery , the baker used to come round , the milk used to come round , they all used to come round at she 'd ha she did n't have go out for heavy loads of stuff to bring in it was all delivered , but when they started some new technique of er of ordering by computer , it 's going to come back to square one again you know , they 'll be delivering stuff in the same jolly old way hey . |
| 12 | Strange how her heart should give a little flutter . |
| 13 | There was no comfort her priest could give Philip . |
| 14 | You 'd have to suspect that they were holding the wife to ransom so that her husband would give them access . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A teaspoon of domestic antiseptic , like Savlon , in their water will give them a much longer life . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | With the American Research and Development budget exceeding the whole of the British Defence vote , we had to become progressively more selective , concentrating on those projects in which success would give us the greatest measure of national independence . |
| 19 | If the pizzas all have the same thickness , which size will give the most pizza per person ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The concept derives from an assertion by an individual against the rest of society , ; since we are social animals and essentially interdependent , we voluntarily ( or is it involuntarily ? ) surrender some of the autonomy of solitary existence in return for the support which society can give us . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | Hence , in some measure , if not crises then problems were wished for because their solution could give a sense of purpose . |
| 25 | All animals have three-dimensional bodies and their solidity can give them away . |
| 26 | At one extreme , it may mean that the world will not contain an example of any single human being doing that thing ; at the other end , it may merely mean that if a group of human beings adopt a norm requiring that behaviour , the norm will often be broken , its observance will give rise to a good deal of anxiety , those who comply without anxiety to the norm will be unusual in other respects , and so forth . |
| 27 | Ruth walked through the kitchen and ascended the back stairs , looking neither to right nor left , afraid that her face might give her away . |
| 28 | Note the black background above the lift : a help to the inlay operator whose equipment will give the illusion of the lift moving . |
| 29 | The friends she had made were the dependable , kindly sort of people whose company would give her pleasure and support in the years to come , as their affection towards her , in these last few terrible weeks , had shown so clearly . |
| 30 | The difficulty of using this form of patronage whose scarcity could give offence to those who were unlucky is illustrated by the difficulties of the Duke of Montrose and his son , Lord George Graham , in 1739–40 , when Lord George , who hoped to combine a career as a naval officer with membership in the House of Commons , first obtained command of a ship , and was thus enabled to offer places in the line of command to the sons of freeholders in the area of Montrose influence in central Scotland . |