Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb mod] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | I say let's give it a go and see what happens . |
2 | I am delighted to commend this booklet to you which I hope will give you a flavour of the variety and interest available to solicitors in local government . |
3 | The danger of approaching whole group work by letting children first improvise in small groups and then presenting them with an issue which you hope will give them a focus is that they remain more interested in what 's going on in their group than in the supposedly unifying issue : " Why should I be interested in the corner shop being knocked down when I never use it , and anyway we 've just been burgled ? ! " |
4 | otherwise you could have him knocking on your door and you know let's give it a go and |
5 | send your record to every DJ and radio producer in the country who you think might give it a play , and follow up your mail-out with a phone call . |
6 | The information we gather will give us months of future material to work from — there will be opportunities both indoors and out to expand our notes into larger works if we wish . |
7 | Unfortunately , we can not use such excuses for ourselves , and so let's get down to some hard facts ; facts which we think will give you an understanding of why you are overweight , and how this can best be tackled , in the short and long term . |
8 | Such opposition from his former Anglican and Tory allies persuaded James to try to forge an alliance with the Dissenters , in the hope that the disabilities under which they suffered would give them common cause with the Catholics to support the removal of the penal laws . |
9 | Good players have a large vocabulary of patterns that they know will give them an advantage ; these are the ‘ ends ’ . |
10 | These are self-report inventories where the testee has the possibility of cheating in that he can respond with an answer which he considers will give him a good score rather than providing a completely truthful one . |
11 | An experimental scientist , on the other hand , arranges matters so that what happens will give him the greatest possible amount of information . |