Example sentences of "[adv] not give [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I phone Andy and confirm it 's still all right to visit , then I ring Eddie and get the next three days off , tell the cops — they 're based at Fettes , though the DI has gone back down to London , and no they 're still not giving me back my new portable yet — and ( after I 've cleaned the car up a bit ) head out of the city and across the grey bridge in a day of squally , buffeting rain that has the bridge 's 40-limit signs on , high-sided vehicles banned and the 205 dancing its Dunlops sideways as the gusts hit . |
| 2 | Alice probed Andrew , but he was either not giving anything away , or was ignorant of Bert 's and Jasper 's alternative ideas . |
| 3 | Why not give them away while saying , " Look here , have it , so long as you spend the proceeds on buying buses . " . |
| 4 | Why not give herself over to the silliness of it , instead of feeling distress ? |
| 5 | Why not give it up ? ’ |