Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] give " in BNC.
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| 31 | By 1578 he was town clerk of Colchester , a puritan borough , where he gave the address welcoming the queen in 1579 . |
| 32 | Ackroyd pastiches Dickens in form rather than style — which is to say that this book is very long , Dickensianly long ( the main text signs off at page 1084 , where it gives way to a fat coda of source notes , bibliography and index ) . |
| 33 | Or he gave them the impression that he wrestled , with limbs contorted , in the effort to seize hold of what truth could be found . |
| 34 | ‘ Look , if you do n't want to tell me who you are , or what gave you the horrors , then do n't . |
| 35 | But Karplus claimed that nothing gives theoreticians grater satisfaction than to find close harmony between their results and the laboratory results . |
| 36 | Because it was the women themselves who were organizing it because they felt part of it they did n't see it as some sort of other people that were more politically motivated that than them giving them something to keep them out on strike , which by its very nature could could have been something that the people would have accepted for a while and then not accepted . |
| 37 | It is with no disrespect to her that I give him preference . |
| 38 | Different names may be current in my area , so that I give you information on the wrong fish . |
| 39 | The lessons of A Course In Miracles provide many wonderful affirmations such as — ‘ There is nothing to fear ’ , ‘ I could see peace instead of this ’ , ‘ All that I give is given to myself , ‘ All things I think I see reflect ideas ’ , ‘ Let me be still and listen to the truth ’ , ‘ Light and joy and peace abide in me ’ , ‘ Today I will judge nothing that occurs ’ , and ‘ The past is over . |
| 40 | The only messages that I give off are of faint delirium and desperate indecision . |
| 41 | I confess that I give pride of place to the story of his children on the occasion they organised a charade displaying a Crusader knight returning from the wars . |
| 42 | It 's only when I 'm writing an article that I give it its proper name ! |
| 43 | It 's always the pressure that I give myself , and I 've given myself a lot of pressure this last year ’ , she revealed . |
| 44 | Do n't worry if you ca n't do it if you ca n't any of these any of these exercises that I give you by the way it 's not like homework it 's just for you to play with them to get the do them at your own pace . |
| 45 | The staff all know what 's got to be done and they go off and do it ; it 's just when jobs are different that I give them any guidance . |
| 46 | But it so happens , you might say well all these years retired I ca n't be much good at the job , you 'll be interested to know that I give talks to groups which include retiring tax inspectors . |
| 47 | ‘ How do you know what impression I have , and what makes you think that I give a damn what you and that boy get up to in your spare time ? ’ |
| 48 | So I 'm hoping that this system that I give you will allow you to do that , anybody been a best man at a wedding ? |
| 49 | Oh dear me so I 'm hoping that the system that I give you will allow you to deal with all those situations as well as make a longer presentation where you do have some preparation time . |
| 50 | Every job that I give Kevin I write down a , a brief summary of what that task was , and I leave a gap of three lines . |
| 51 | But he complains that I give him the impression that I am holding back and am not fully committed . |
| 52 | Somebody I , ones that I give him that I thought he |
| 53 | It 's nothing , this is the way I deal with it , if I treat this job , if I go in to a shop or ask for any service I expect , you know , the same that I give , and basically speaking then I 'm pleased . |
| 54 | Well yes , but let me say that I gave up going to auditions well before I became well known through The History Man , on television . |
| 55 | Not that I gave it serious thought . |
| 56 | He 's trying to make out that I gave it to him when I gave him a spoonful of that … stuff … |
| 57 | It was at this point that I gave up any hopes for an aviation career simply because of the increasing high cost of hiring that DH Moth for a few hours every weekend . |
| 58 | It was in those days , when Margaret was still alive , that I gave my former colleague Peter Duval-Smith — whose private life and whose work as an academic journalist always seemed to be equally chaotic — the introduction to Braemar Mansions that he so much wanted . |
| 59 | ‘ Bear in mind that I gave my evidence after Blissett had been charged by the FA for a serious breach of the laws of the game — and the experienced commission of inquiry , which conducted a rigorous investigation into the incident , cleared him . |
| 60 | I think it was on that Sunday , but it may have been on the Sunday before , that I gave the last message from the Burma Broadcasting Service . |