Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [modal v] give the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understand that my right hon. Friend has just been to Oman , so perhaps he can give the House some information . |
| 2 | If we keep our nerve long enough it may give the police time to find out where they are being held . ’ |
| 3 | This echoes the statement in their second encounter that he , Porfiry , has no intention of making an immediate arrest because by doing so he would give the murderer somebody to be : ‘ I 'd give him , so to say , a definite position , I 'd give him psychological definition and peace . ’ |
| 4 | I do n't think though we should give the impression that most of the behaviour we 're calling sexual harassment takes the form of behaviour that |
| 5 | Now it 'll give the rest of the country the benefit of its experience of the problem . |
| 6 | well I 'll give the commitment . |
| 7 | you know I mean it 's not just one of them surely she could give the police some indication of what he 's like |
| 8 | just added it up and sort of like if you take twenty , if you take an hour as being seven days , erm , twe , twe , twenty one hours , and what have you got the total there , three , eight , eleven , eleven and a half hours selling out of the whole of that , actual selling on your B M S , well they 'll give the things that we both disagree are important , and then you do get chance to do the selling what we 're predominately ; |
| 9 | And what this means is that from now on the cla lectures will trail the classes , which , which does n't matter and is actually quite er a good thing in the sense that what will happen from now on is that we 'll first do a topic in the class and then I will give the lecture on it the week after , or possibly even two weeks after , which is okay because it means that then in the lecture I can concentrate on filling in the gaps , straightening out the misunderstandings and generally adding to what we did in the class , rather than leading as it were as I have up until now . |
| 10 | If this is not your first name , then you may give the name by which you are normally called . |
| 11 | I 've found that after a few years experience you can tell , you just can you know ; which even if you 've got a group with two very imaginative kids in , who can play instruments really well , and the others sit back and let them do it , then you might give the difference between two out of ten and nine out of ten for effort in the same group , but for the overall effect they would then get the same mark for the group thing . |
| 12 | Working through committees may provide opportunities for a form of participation in decision-making in an institution ( a cynical view would be that at least it may give the illusion of this ) , but by their nature committees can be introspective and restricted in their outlook . |
| 13 | It would never get rid of the damned things permanently but at least it would give the Ryans a breathing space . |
| 14 | Erm the point which I do n't think I a quite adequately covered , erm Alan mentioned it did you not , in relation to where you give a signal , erm th the h new Highway Code makes a slight variation in relation to where you should give the signal when you 're exiting on the roundabout . |
| 15 | If nothing else it will give the landladies of Aldeburgh a chance to turn in an honest penny at a time when holidaymakers are few and far between in Suffolk . |