Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] give the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually — ’ she frowned at her watch as she followed the other girl to the door ‘ — I definitely think I 'd better give the coffee a miss . |
| 2 | I do n't give the orders around here . |
| 3 | I hope that I did not give the impression that a Bill could be amended in any way at all as that is not so . |
| 4 | I did n't give the matter much thought , specially when Clare remarked that same evening that she had heard Father tell Mother , ‘ Do n't worry . |
| 5 | But I was dreading the French paper to which I had only given the dregs of my time as I had had so much else on my plate . |
| 6 | I 've just given the whole of life a miss for nearly a year , all because of bloody Adrian . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've just given the barman his own show on the telly , ’ he explained , handing them around . |
| 8 | It 's just that I 've never given the matter much thought . |
| 9 | Therefore , I recommend either giving the instrument a thorough test , or else asking for an opinion by an optical expert . |
| 10 | I have also given the first-magnitude stars in each constellation . |
| 11 | I have already given the House the details about Community aid in which we participate . |
| 12 | ‘ I have n't given the matter any thought . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I have never given the Olympic Games a thought I am just plodding my way through the season , racing here and there , ’ he said . |
| 14 | As for Genet , someone whose involvement with the different has variously been repudiated as fascist , racist , and anarchistic , his Prisoner of Love is nothing less than an affirmation of the love that Fanon envisaged and which has sometimes given the dissident their courage . |
| 15 | Mr Tantum criticised a suggestion made by the Law Commission this year that hacking in its simple form should be an offence which did not give the police powers to arrest suspects or search their premises . |
| 16 | You 'd better give the prizes , I 'll have the . |
| 17 | When children injure themselves , it is important that you know how to give the right first aid treatment , quickly , quietly and with lots of reassurance to the child . |
| 18 | The lanky West Indians rely not on lateral movement but on speed and bounce , as to England 's Malcolm and numerous others like him , who do not give the ball enough air in which to swing . |
| 19 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 20 | He was one of the few who did n't give the company a song . |
| 21 | ‘ And not likely to find out , ’ the young man who emerged dragging a suitcase muttered , ‘ if you do n't give the poor girl a chance to finish a thing she 's saying . ’ |
| 22 | Yes a hundred metres in ten seconds but you do n't give the speed like that . |
| 23 | ‘ You 're saying you 've never given the poor girl a scrap of encouragement ? ’ she mocked scornfully . |
| 24 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |
| 25 | She had nearly given the game away there . |
| 26 | It was the following weekend and Rachel was helping her father , who had just given the lawn its last cut before winter , to dispose of the grass cuttings on the compost heap at the bottom of the garden . |
| 27 | An objector , who had not given the notice required by the rule , was not allowed to oppose confirmation when he sought to appear before the confirming authority , and the licence was confirmed . |
| 28 | ‘ I wish you had not given the money to the Moslems . ’ |
| 29 | Erm but erm that 's a , a very important point and er just remember that you have actually given the money to the other partner , technically in terms of tax anyway , and er that er can , can have an affect on things . |
| 30 | ‘ We 'd better give the lads an 'and , ’ he said , nudging Freddie . |