Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pron] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time the Bill gives galleries powers of disposal , subject to certain conditions — or rather it gives such powers to the Tate and the national portrait gallery , but not to the Wallace collection or the national gallery . |
| 2 | That 's why Lisabeth thought he might be a musician or maybe somebody giving you work or something . |
| 3 | Or maybe someone gave him a warning . |
| 4 | Typically subjects either described at length one feature of interest ignoring all others , or else they gave several brief cryptic comments which could not unambiguously assigned to particular objects in the film . |
| 5 | If a particular monkey is chased and harried for as long as ten minutes , it may become so stressed that eventually it gives up trying to escape and sits to face its death without screaming or even resisting when the hunters finally seize it . |
| 6 | This brings out what is perhaps the essential feature of a security interest , namely , that ultimately it gives the holder of the security a proprietary claim over assets , normally the debtor 's , to secure payment of the debt . |
| 7 | Doubtful if he ever dented a heart ; more than likely he gave quite a number of hearts a new lift after they 'd imagined the ball was over for them . |
| 8 | They used this when they were one-night-standing and eventually they gave it to me . ’ |
| 9 | He immediately queried the instructions and eventually they gave him a new course to steer . |
| 10 | Soon the mask of mob rule and anarchy was replaced by the naked face of despotism , and eventually it gave way to Napoleon 's personal image of collectivism : an imperial militarism . |
| 11 | and we will give you a er , two addresses , and so they gave me two addresses and and to reach people at I 've done the job quite well . |
| 12 | And so he gave Katherine all his protective tenderness , but he could n't bring himself to blame his mother , to judge her . |
| 13 | Well , in my book nothing comes before football and so I gave them a simple ultimatum : ‘ Make your choice . |
| 14 | Each ‘ hour ’ — Matins , Lauds , Vespers and so on — consisted of psalms , prayers and readings from scripture and the fathers and so it gave the nun a form Lectio . |
| 15 | MADRID 'S five big daily newspapers carried dozens of pages on the split and only one gave more front page space to another story . |
| 16 | Olympic four-hundred metre hurdler Kriss Akabusi told the youngsters they can achieve as much as he has , if only they give their best . |
| 17 | We could really make this place swing if only they gave us the data to work on , could n't we ? ’ |
| 18 | Most people are accustomed to follow linguistic rules more or less slavishly , but in this case they would be glad to change if only someone gave them a new set of clear rules to follow ( an earlier work by Miller and Swift was subtitled ‘ New Language in New Times ’ : it seems they take the optimistic view that we are living in a postfeminist world ) . |
| 19 | And naturally they gave their opinions on the new Mrs Arbuthnot . |
| 20 | So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on . |
| 21 | And then when he 'd won he offered Heseltine the had of friendship and promptly he gave him the Poll Tax , which will finish him for ever . |
| 22 | And once I gave him a fish-cake for free . |
| 23 | Once or twice Paula teased me about nude swimming , and once she gave me a brief conducted tour of the gardens and the house . |
| 24 | And always it gave time to fit the second shaft and loose the second volley , and redouble the boiling turmoil that was held at a distance by nothing more deadly — but there was nothing more deadly ! — than cloth-yard shafts of wood and steel flighted with a handful of feathers . |
| 25 | With fertilisers the same crops can be grown year after year on the same fields and still they give high yields . |
| 26 | and like they give you a secret number of what comes next |
| 27 | and they do some singing and everything and also they give out the bibles to those that are going up to school |
| 28 | But my ex-husband says I 'm inclined to be intimidating and also I give out powerful signals that I 'm desperate to get another husband . |
| 29 | R A Y N E R , and that 's your head of department in case erm , so if you look in that book in chapter four , right , there 's er agricultural trade and the GATT , if you look er , if you read that chapter , it 'll give you all the information you need to know about erm , agricultural trade , erm , how it 's changed , what the costs , there are a lot of estimates of the costs of agricultural protectionism , and as the benefits to liberalization of er , of trade , and also it gives er , a view of erm , er the Uruguay round of GATT . |
| 30 | The West ‘ gave us hours to survive , then days , then weeks and now they give us seasons , but they should learn from the time that has elapsed already ’ , he said . |