Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh pn] [vb mod] n't give " in BNC.
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| 1 | You , my dear , you 're half in love with your husband , then there 's Martha who 's half a child and half a girl , Richard who ca n't give up being half in the Navy , Willis who 's half an artist and half a longshoreman , a cat who 's half alive and half dead . |
| 2 | She felt like a bad child , a bad little girl who would n't give up . |
| 3 | We now have friends all over the country and I often think about the elderly disabled chap who would n't accept help to lift his canoe at portages or the young white faced girl who would n't give up though exhausted . |
| 4 | All the horrid people who would n't give me money when I was collecting . |
| 5 | For people who ca n't give up the taste of salt , health experts recommend switching to low-sodium salt alternatives . |
| 6 | And then the plate was passed from him to his murderer and it was passed round until it was passed to the bank manager who would n't give her the money and then back to her . |
| 7 | The engineer with the irreverent sense of humour who would n't give houseroom to a defunct machine but who would carefully dismantle and put by any parts that might be of use later on would — this time next year — be helping to nourish the rose beds . |
| 8 | A loose tribute to Judy Garland , Liza Minnelli , Barbra Streisand and ‘ those women who ca n't give enough as a performer ’ , it also involves Sandra taking even more of her clothes off . |