Example sentences of "on the [noun] [prep] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | and of course , you know , you er er you 'll get hold of all this as the more we do erm but you lost your way on the diagram by giving him too much I think and , and er the referrals you sort of lost at one point but you come back and reclaimed it did n't you ? |
| 2 | It looked as if we had painted ourselves into a corner and I was on the verge of giving up and going home when Jake trundled up with his totter 's cart and his little skewbald pony . |
| 3 | He developed quite a severe migraine headache and felt very sick by Day 3 and he was on the verge of giving up . |
| 4 | On the question of giving an employee reasons for his dismissal , reasons need only be given if specifically requested by the employee ( Section 58 of the 1978 Act ) . |
| 5 | Though the Khmers Rouges have made it clear that they would consider taking part in a coalition government , they have remained silent on the question of giving up their weapons . |
| 6 | She had given him no opportunity to indicate that there was an old friend with him — not that there was , at that point , but there might have been , and if there had been , it was hardly his fault if Alexandra had chosen to come knocking on the door without giving him a chance to explain — and then getting stroppy when she found someone had got there before her . |
| 7 | Just after the war a BBC programme assistant called Godfrey Baseley , searching for an alternative to the stiff , technical talks from farming experts on the radio , hit on the idea of giving agricultural advice in the form of a story . |
| 8 | Expectations , too , are part of the theme , based on the idea of giving and receiving and the difference between what people expect and what they get . |
| 9 | History has played a cruel joke on the Somalis by giving them a culture of internal clan divisions in a world of centralised government and bureaucracy . |
| 10 | The country 's strict laws controlling election advertising meant that much of this sum was spent on hosting public events and on the tradition of giving gifts of cash or consumer goods to constituents . |
| 11 | Some of the veterans were on the point of giving tongue but young Donald McCulloch was on his feet and moving into the middle of the ring , he was full of himself , sparkling with mischief but with an undertow of ardour . |
| 12 | Against Wales at Cardiff , for instance , he was on the point of giving up . |
| 13 | But just as I was on the point of giving up , the honking bus swerved past me . |
| 14 | Drilling operations had meanwhile been shifted to the south , and oil was finally struck in Masjid-i-Suleiman on 26 May 1908 , just as D'Arcy and Burmah were on the point of giving up . |
| 15 | The UK has never operated on the basis of giving subsidised loans ( as in France ) instead of capital grants for investment schemes , though there is no reason why such a system should not be instigated . |
| 16 | And again it 's on the basis of giving advice as to what standards of fire safety are recommended . |
| 17 | Just now , however , the land was dry , the pool a perfect mirror , moss on the statuary below giving it a rich green colour , like a tarnished bronze . |
| 18 | A major difficulty is likely to be that doctors are usually on the side of giving support rather than receiving it and will probably find it difficult to recognise their own needs . |
| 19 | It is best NOT to sing a hymn during this procession so that the emphasis is on the action of GIVING . |