Example sentences of "and [adv] give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only by constant bargaining can a president hope to bring order to the inherent chaos of the US political system and thereby give it direction and purpose . |
| 2 | ‘ I think it 's time we left , ’ she muttered , standing up and thereby giving him no opportunity to deliver another of his pointed snubs . |
| 3 | ‘ He was first rate ! ’ enthused Surkov , using the English adjective and thereby giving his compliment an ironic tinge . |
| 4 | I was to keep them safe and eventually give them to anyone who survived . |
| 5 | Saint Simon describes how Louis XIV 's adored granddaughter-in-law , the Duchesse de Bourgogne , was standing in conversation with the King , while a maid lifted her skirt from behind and discreetly gave her an enema . |
| 6 | ‘ It took a lot of thinking about — living in your own home and happy there for fifty years and suddenly to give it away . |
| 7 | ‘ I guessed , ’ he replied , and suddenly gave her a lop-sided grin — and all at once Leith discovered she was feeling most unexpectedly lighthearted . |
| 8 | In any piece of fiction there must be room for the reader — room for him to jump at a suggestion , to insert himself into a story , to respond to hints and clues : to be told what is offered to him is to encourage him to read passively and so to give him less than he deserves . |
| 9 | But friends assured me there was more to this grand range of mountains than my experience had suggested , and so to give it a chance I went back to climb Cairn Gorm properly , giving the bridies as wide a body swerve as possible . |
| 10 | Hitherto , the Greeks had instinctively interpreted their experience through their myths and so given it " the stamp of the eternal " . |
| 11 | His family knew nothing of education and so gave him no support or encouragement , still less active aid . |
| 12 | The fact that consumer platforms will generally be convenient , all-in-one , low cost units needing nothing more sophisticated than a domestic television for display purposes , suggest that many libraries may be able to support all available platforms and so give their customers the widest possible choice . |
| 13 | Mr Major must also be wondering why , if the recession is so bad , so many firms never bother to finish the job and so give themselves a chance of being paid . |
| 14 | This state of mind will transmit itself into the drawing and so give it life . |
| 15 | This state of mind will transmit itself into the drawing and so give it life . |
| 16 | From there , she was able to make regular visits to Vietnam — and so give us essential reports on where our help was needed most . |
| 17 | We have already emphasized the value of coins as evidence ; among other things they sometimes reveal the number of minters at work in a city , and so give us a hazy but valuable indication of the relative size of the towns of a kingdom . |
| 18 | Bertrams by their generous returns allowance also take away some of our worries and so give us more confidence in making subscriptions , which include Reed titles . |
| 19 | And so gives its all , oh , to the last |
| 20 | It was probable that he had not , and best in any case not to go near ; soon he would miss her , want her back , and perhaps give his permission for the marriage despite all he had said to the contrary . |
| 21 | Thus , to make the whole hard disk open for others to read , the owner would publish the root directory ( C : \ ) and perhaps give it a name ( eg. |
| 22 | Does the horse come to the stable door to investigate you , and perhaps give you a friendly nuzzle ? |
| 23 | modern traffic calming measures however er I believe we have experts on the Council er in these matters but I believe that by narrowing the road and perhaps giving us pavements because one of our problems is that we have not got a continuous pavement through the village , and it is necessary to cross the road four times in some cases to walk from one end to the other . |
| 24 | It may be full of microbes and rotting vegetation , but these are natural and organic and only give it an attractive flavour . |
| 25 | The word ‘ residual ’ is given to artefacts earlier than the actual date of the earth movement and only gives what is called a terminus post quem . |
| 26 | You add all this other information and you constantly do that throughout the 24 hour day by saying that , ‘ it 's 11 o'clock , time for your coffee ’ , ‘ it 's twelve o'clock , it 's time for lunch ’ , and constantly giving your name and bringing them back to the present . ’ |
| 27 | Her new partner alleviated the terrible loneliness caused by my father 's death after 50 years of marriage and literally gave her something to get up for in the morning , when planting tulips would n't have been enough . |
| 28 | Her own sleep the light , fragmented pre-waking kind by this time , Maria realised what was happening at once and merely gave him a sleepily complacent smile , pleased to see the disturbance in his eyes as he regarded her suspiciously . |
| 29 | Brenda 's initial response to Trevor 's " even if " e's in is car , man " is the London English " I would n't sleep in " is car " ( line 10 ) : but she reaffirms this in Creole in the same turn ( me na sleep in " is car ) and furthermore gives her reason : " for me have me bed at home " . |
| 30 | The bank was usually very understanding , and generally gave us some leeway until we were able to sell something . |