Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the special Cabinet , and curiously for a Prime Minister who wishes to get his own way when his colleagues are at best perplexed , he invited everyone else to give their own views before himself intervening . |
| 2 | I leaned forward , put my thumb under my lip and jerked it up to give him a close-up view of the long gash and the trailing blood-stained ends of the stitches . |
| 3 | Her lip trembled briefly as Tony hugged her and Maureen kissed her again before they left , but she quickly recovered and told them unsmilingly to give her love to her father and the family . |
| 4 | Meredith told him twice to give it a bit more blood and thunder , but it was n't in him . |
| 5 | When it failed she virtually gave up , and accepted the facts for what they were . ’ |
| 6 | Her expression begged them not to give her away . |
| 7 | But my mother taught me never to give up . ’ |
| 8 | She reversed the car out and swung it round to give Billy room to put his in its place . |
| 9 | Rasbora caudimaculata the Red Scissortail can be a trickly fish to acclimatise to aquarium life , but once well established it rarely gives further problems . |
| 10 | I thought I actually gave all the sales figures we have . |
| 11 | I brought you in to give you a present . |
| 12 | I brought him downstairs give him his dinner and then I put him to sleep in his pram in the front room , but I think that 'd also er |
| 13 | ‘ But — I thought he never gave interviews ? ’ |
| 14 | And and it really made it really gave the edge to that you know and and someone And I thought . |
| 15 | And when she asked he merely gave his quirky smile . |
| 16 | Did I just give him some money , I did n't did I ? |
| 17 | ‘ Did I really give Mrs Richards the right treatment ? ’ |
| 18 | Did I ever give the slightest sign … ? ’ |
| 19 | Well no because what I did I actually gave a copy to er to Paul okay , this is er ja erm . |
| 20 | So at that point then did you almost give up hope that you would be rescued ? that you more or less were going to end in the sea at that point ? |
| 21 | When did you ever give me one ? ’ |
| 22 | When did you actually give up the the farm as such . |
| 23 | Was there any more or did she just give you these ? |
| 24 | The saga , which was illustrated with his own naïve pen-and-ink drawings , had its origins in the compassion he had felt for the sufferings of the animals in the past war ( ‘ If we made [ them ] take the same chances as we did ourselves , why did we not give them similar attention when wounded ? ’ ) and in the letters about an imaginary horse surgery that he had written home from the front to his two children , Elizabeth and Colin ( the latter of whom habitually called himself Dr Dolittle ) . |
| 25 | Why did they not give tea parties for their own men ( if they were able to find any ) ? |
| 26 | Why did they not give her toys to play with ? |
| 27 | Did he ever give to the poor ? |
| 28 | He was curious about how she would react — had she just given it out of social politeness , or had she meant it ? |
| 29 | Only what courtesy had she ever given him ? she wondered miserably . |
| 30 | We would have been acting wrongly had we not given her permission to visit her mother . ’ |