Example sentences of "[indef pn] [pron] [modal v] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | When his wife died he began to look around for another ; someone who would give him the children he needed . |
| 2 | ‘ Someone who 'll give a bit extra . |
| 3 | We were always looking for someone who could give us help . |
| 4 | He asked a scout to search through the turmoil and pick out Tiguary , if possible , or someone who could give him a message . |
| 5 | For someone who can give an object as plain and manageable as a book all the symmetry and neatness of a loosely wrapped food blender , the prospect of getting cumbersome gardening tools into a parcel terrifies me . |
| 6 | They see the tiny , vivacious Chicana poetess as someone who can give a voice to their experiences of LA . |
| 7 | Come the glorious Labour victory , ‘ Third Term ’ should be played at full volume outside Downing Street with special emphasis on the lines ‘ I want someone who will not waste my vote , I want someone who will give me hope ’ . |
| 8 | Come the glorious Labour victory , ‘ Third Term ’ should be played at full volume outside Downing Street with special emphasis on the lines ‘ I want someone who will not waste my vote , I want someone who will give me hope ’ . |
| 9 | The two litre size because of course the two litre is not well it it 's erm we just had problems with erm finding somebody who would give us a er good quality bottle . |
| 10 | So erm and another thing I was going to suggest erm I need help really erm for the meetings , I need somebody who will help , a social secretary say somebody who will help with the raffles and somebody who will organize meetings , what 's going on at meetings because it 's getting , the job is getting most difficult and I work part-time and it 's , it 's , I 'm not getting any younger and I 'm finding it a struggle to try and get everything fixed , the raffles and the what 's going on and everything organized , so if you , if you if you could see the way clear , perhaps we could create a social secretary or an assistant secretary where we could have somebody who can give a hand with the organization of the meetings |
| 11 | Of course , he played war that he 'd got rubbish for his dinner , but he 'd got everything I could give him . |
| 12 | I 've got one I 'll give you my book later on Angela ! |
| 13 | You would have thought there might be a problem of some sort : just a small failure perhaps ; something which would suggest that all was not well within the house of the world champions ; something which would give the rest a smidgeon of hope for the remainder of the season . |
| 14 | If , by accident , you try to make it do something which could give rise to an error , you accept the fact that command mode . |
| 15 | The University would prefer a truly discretionary system of salary awards , i.e. one which would give the University complete freedom to decide how to disburse the whole of the national settlement . |
| 16 | A more common method today , however ( because it is much quicker , often cheaper and one which can give certain security even before contracts to sell are exchanged ) , is the insurance indemnity policy issued on payment of a single premium . |
| 17 | It 's something she may give up or she may not . |
| 18 | ‘ She must have been hoping they 'd ask for something she could give . |
| 19 | Love was n't something you could give or withhold at will . |
| 20 | Very occasionally he 's given me tinned stuff and pretty naff it is , too : bland and soft , like something you 'd give a kitten . |
| 21 | Okay , if he needs a blank one you can give him yours . |
| 22 | A real Christian is one who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip Billy Graham |
| 23 | Within varying forms of self-definition of the honours or responsibilities that go with such privilege , the patron is defined as one who can give or withhold his commission or support . |
| 24 | Mr Yeltsin is its best known member and probably the only one who could give it party discipline and a distinctive ideology . |
| 25 | By June he had tried seven different prospective designers without finding one who could give him what he wanted , but was emphatic that he could not work at a distance with Hanns or other Johannesburg artists , ‘ so that 's that ’ . |
| 26 | New England captain Stuart Pearce told me : ‘ This is something we shall give serious thought to . |
| 27 | No as far as as far as the ball and the roller is concerned , thos those are something we could give away from somebody else 's stand . |
| 28 | Sometimes on this one they might give you erm two lengths and they might ask you to find an angle . |
| 29 | you 've got your copies of it , if you , you happen to tear one they can give you another copy like that . |
| 30 | So an open verdict was the only appropriate one he could give . |