Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb mod] [adv] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reserve your answer for the cameras , or you may inadvertently give him more fuel for his theme . |
| 2 | Or you can just give yourself some bullet points because you do n't need to write out the and 's and the the 's and whatever . |
| 3 | Spend a , a minute or so , putting your thoughts together , you can write it out if you want to , or you can just give you bullet points , what you 've chosen you 're going to change into a feature . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , it has often been said that foreign learners of English need to learn English intonation ; some have gone further than this and claimed that , unless the foreign learner learns the appropriate way to use intonation in a given situation , there is a risk that he or she may unintentionally give offence ; for example , the learner might use an intonation suitable for expressing boredom or discontent when what was needed was an expression of gratitude or affection . |
| 5 | If you do live in the same house as your landlord and he or she wants you to leave the property then he or she must still give you at least four weeks Notice to Quit on a special form . |
| 6 | ‘ No one likes playing in the reserves and everyone at Sunderland should know that I would always give 100 per cent . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I think it is very peculiar that someone can just give evidence , like Sir Hal Millar , and not be cross-examined on it at all . ’ |
| 8 | I see that she does , so I shall certainly give way to her . |
| 9 | He was much taller than her , and those broad shoulders could weather a much harder pounding than she could ever give him . |
| 10 | ‘ It said she hated having to give you up , she 'd hoped to keep you , but this way you 'd have more than she could ever give you , and she knew you 'd be loved , even as much as she loved you . |
| 11 | Another problem is that if you 're trying to deal with other manufacturers in the way that we do , where we have this extremely close relationship and they are very reliant on our forward forecasts of volume , they feel if you have your own manufacturing plant that you would always give preference to it in bad times and the other suppliers would be the people to suffer if sales declined . |
| 12 | . Tell you what you need to do to achieve your plan , so that you can actually give all your targets , your ratios and your activities , it 's alright , if this tells you to do thirty calls , it 's no use doing twenty . |
| 13 | If you are really fond of her , then you know that you will both give each other pleasure simply by being together for a while , but you must be prepared to give much more of yourself to the conduct of those few hours than you probably would in other social circumstances . |
| 14 | They also do n't like wind rock so in a , an exposed position young plants do really need more staking than you 'd probably give a bush because they tend to rot off at the roots if they grow around a lot . |
| 15 | Although we must never give up hoping that Peter will recover from the terrible illness of addiction — for it is an illness — we 've been told to face the possibility that this might just never happen . |
| 16 | If you think that we should now give another proof of the same length to show that the possibility that a\c leads to the conclusion that b is a unit , you have cheated yourself in that you have accepted the statement " WLOG we can suppose a\b " above as a valid one when you do n't even understand what it says ! |
| 17 | Joan said : ‘ I want people to know that Brian has never been forgotten and that we will never give up hope that his murderer will be found . ’ |
| 18 | Her husband was due to retire then and they had decided that they would both give up work at the same time . |
| 19 | He refused and Universal countered that they would merely give it a limited showing . |
| 20 | However , an elderly man assured the expedition of the tribe 's ‘ warmest attachment and that they would always give them every assistance in their power ; that they were poor but their hearts were good ’ . |
| 21 | In a study of potential nursing home residents it was observed that the old people were likely to undergo a major psychological upheaval as they realised that they must soon give up their own homes and accept institutionalisation for the rest of their lives ( Tobin and Lieberman , 1976 ) . |
| 22 | He and his family would retire for a while from public gaze , so that they could privately give vent to their grief at the loss of that larger-than-life figure who had seemed immortal … |
| 23 | They may go several years without a cable break on the winch launching , and so they will scarcely give the possibility any thought . |
| 24 | The inspectors are aware that many people do n't know about this law so they will usually give just a warning to first offenders . |
| 25 | Mere drunkenness will not of itself amount to disorderliness , although it might readily give rise to disorderly conduct . |
| 26 | He said although he can never give an absolute undertaking on public expenditure , he has assured diocesan officials that the schools are expected to satisfy new funding criteria for 1993–94 . |
| 27 | Anyway , you could scratch up the rifling with a file and steel wool so that it would never give the same markings on a bullet again . ’ |
| 28 | Bathsheba knew that he would always give his honest opinion , even if she asked him whether she should marry another man , and there was nobody else she could trust . |
| 29 | He once swore , he said , that he would never give up his freedom and take on such a big post , but now here he is . |
| 30 | Has the hon. Gentleman , who reads with his lips so much that he could almost give lessons to the Leader of the Opposition , read the amendment which deals with precisely this issue ? |