Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] to give " in BNC.
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| 1 | The craziness of the theatre business was apparent from day one and about three weeks into my ten week contract , I thought I ought to give Peace Corps another try . |
| 2 | And and he said well do you think I ought to give her , you know , what about two pound a week ? |
| 3 | In fact I 'll give my neighbours who live opposite , I do n't see a lot of them but they they are my opposite neighbours and of course the 's really I 'm on good terms with I ought to give them I 'll get them a tin of biscuits as well . |
| 4 | So then it was up to me to go back to the script and find what I could to give me a lead . |
| 5 | It reminded me of when I used to give people money just to make them go away again . |
| 6 | It was the seven shillings wages I was worried about , but I used to give that to me mother . |
| 7 | I used to give my mother the lot , she used to give me a shilling back . |
| 8 | The short answer was that when I was working as inspector of taxes I used to give these talks , I was required to give talks . |
| 9 | Originally my colleagues and I used to give demonstrations whilst the teacher observed and then tried to copy . |
| 10 | I used to give him a pound whenever I met him : let no-one call me ungenerous . |
| 11 | But mind you I used to give them six , whatever they wanted you know . |
| 12 | ‘ From a child , I used to give him — what do you say ? ’ |
| 13 | I used to give him the odd cuddle and I used to give him lifts home on my bike . |
| 14 | I used to give him the odd cuddle and I used to give him lifts home on my bike . |
| 15 | I thought it would be quicker , you see and I 'd been in the services as well , because I used to give a subscription to British Legion |
| 16 | Then after she got over she used , I used to give her some water then . |
| 17 | and I used to give it |
| 18 | Well , it 's what you might call clerkin' work , writin' letters for business firms at 'ome , which do n't come too welcome to an active man like 'im , so 'e likes to get out as much as 'e can to give 'is gammy leg a walk . |
| 19 | Carrie had n't wanted to show her , in case Hepzibah should feel she ought to give them parting presents as well , but now there was no help for it . |
| 20 | She looked back at the cupboard , wondering if she ought to give any other heart drugs . |
| 21 | They should be doing that work , if they 're asking us to design a remit , price it and then they 're using that remit to get prices from other people , er I would suggest that , that we perhaps ought to have words with our clients on that basis a and say we 're quite happy to tender in competition but erm i you ought to give it a little bit of thought before you actually put the thing . |
| 22 | ‘ I think you ought to give it a try . |
| 23 | ‘ I think you ought to give credit to your doctors , ’ she said gently . |
| 24 | ‘ You ought to give that up , ’ she chided gently . |
| 25 | You ought to give John a ring tonight |
| 26 | They said they would , but they said you ought to give us the surname . |
| 27 | These she reads with the kind of pure , trance-like attention that she used to give , as a child , to the stories of Enid Blyton . |
| 28 | ‘ She used to give me a piece of the dough when she was making pastry . |
| 29 | She used to give them Pedigree Chum too , but it was mostly cat food . |
| 30 | They used to In the lace market there used to be factories what used to make lace er and er a lady used to er go and take fetch so much lace out and she used to give it out to people what wanted to do it . |