Example sentences of "but give [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BY THE time they got to Woodstock they might have been half a million strong , but give them a few days in the mud and they 'd soon wandered off into an acid daze looking for luxuries like a toilet , somewhere to sleep and a decent tofu burger . |
| 2 | But give them a solid economic recovery and they 'll forget it ever happened . ’ |
| 3 | I 've never seen the sort of breathtaking squalor I witnessed there but give them a day when their neighbourhood is shown to be worth the world running through it , gratefully accepting water and candy from them at the roadside , and it 's amazing the way mutual mistrust can disappear . |
| 4 | Divert children , in a sense , but give them a feeling of power at the same time . |
| 5 | Goldfish , for instance , lay hundreds of eggs at a time , but give them no parental care at all . |
| 6 | According to the trust 's Andy Hunter , the aim is not to treat or rehabilitate people but give them an opportunity to work . |
| 7 | They may not always be too keen on having to wash with it … but give them the chance to make a big splash somewhere and they will never be any happier . |
| 8 | But give me a chance . |
| 9 | ‘ We 're really very busy at the moment , but give me a ring tomorrow in my office and we 'll try and make a date ’ he said feebly , hoping his lack of enthusiasm might act as a deterrent . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll tell you , Lynn , but give me a drink first . ’ |
| 11 | But give me a bit of time and I 'm sure I can find some cogent motive to pin on him . ’ |
| 12 | No , but give me a chance just to have a |
| 13 | But give me the benefit of the biochemical doubt , for that is perhaps not , except amongst professional biochemists , the most important question . |
| 14 | The French may have their fancy patisseries , but give me an English pudding any day . |
| 15 | Most of the time he probably kept the fact well-concealed , but give him an audience of five-year-olds behind closed doors , and the brakes would come off . |
| 16 | Doing fair copies of written work , infrequently and not as a punishment , can be useful ; but give it a real purpose . |
| 17 | Maybe all that happens now is that you feel tired , but give it a year or two and — ’ |
| 18 | You may not listen , but give it a thought . ’ |
| 19 | The political crisis which vastly increased its recruitment could not help but give it an unusual character . |
| 20 | We 'll try install , bu but give it an explicit path . |
| 21 | We 're closing soon , but give us a chance , OK ? ’ |
| 22 | But give us a good meal first , wo n't you — I have n't had good home-cooking for … for two and a half days . |
| 23 | The prime aim of the Marriott fellowship is not to turn chemists into budding journalists , but to give them the chance to see some of the opportunities available in scientific publishing without committing themselves . |
| 24 | Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote . |
| 25 | When the ‘ Wolf ’ catches her he may obey the laws of the game and avoid physically hurting her , but giving her a momentary fright is a legitimate part of the game . |
| 26 | But giving it a good clean out and getting |
| 27 | He does n't come up to the desk straightaway , but gives me a nod and starts looking at the flowers , really closely , like he really knew about them . |
| 28 | before a final all-embracing italicized section , looking back in its typography , placing , and , most importantly , its rhythm , recalls the opening nursery rhyme chorus , but gives it a universal voice which seems to include all that we have heard before in what is now a ritual chant ending with an appropriately childlike sound , |
| 29 | His new Food and Beverage Manager appears to accept the idea as theoretically desirable , but gives it a low priority in practice : privately , he has been urging Winter to ‘ crack the whip a bit ’ , arguing that the whole establishment needs ‘ a good shake up ’ before reforms can be introduced effectively . |
| 30 | I refused but gave them a couple of biscuits and to their delight took their photographs . |