Example sentences of "[verb] that [pers pn] give " in BNC.
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| 31 | I do n't know what his name was , but I was only a little kid like , you know We , we sung that He give us half a crown each , He said do you know on , on the I said oh yes . |
| 32 | After the awards were announced , The Saturday Review commented that it gave ‘ the impression of an overgrown hotel at a watering place , with one of Wren 's city spires perched on its north-west angle next the parade , to hold the dinner-bell ’ . |
| 33 | The money should be transferred to the N U M and if it is not longer needed by those families , we would suggest that they give it back to help the formation of the independent labour movement in Russia . |
| 34 | The money should be transferred to the N U M , and if it is not longer needed by those families , we would suggest that they give it back to help the formation of the independent labour movement in Russia . |
| 35 | This made me shudder but I was brought back to my own worries when I heard Mum demand that she gave the lump of coal back . |
| 36 | This requires that we give up foolish , immoral reading , or reading to acquire power , or reading that is self-indulgent . |
| 37 | Does my right hon. Friend know that I gave up the opportunity of becoming a solicitor like the hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) because accountants put the losses on the right and the profits on the left ? |
| 38 | Whatever may be the limits of Article 235 , and it has been noted that it gave rise , even before the Community acquired its express environmental competence , to legislation on the conservation of wild birds , examples can be found of the development of what would appear to be new Community policies , without even a reference to Article 235 . |
| 39 | Legend has it that the mandarin was so grateful to Earl Grey for services rendered that he gave him his secret tea recipe , to keep mind , body and spirit together in perfect harmony . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | His best-known work , Tetbury church , Gloucestershire ( 1777–81 ) , is one of the most elegant examples of late eighteenth-century Gothic and was widely admired at the time , the poet William Mason [ q.v. ] , for example , commenting that it gave him ‘ the very highest opinion ’ of Hiorne 's ‘ Gothic taste ’ ; and his approach to Gothic design also appears to have embraced at least the rudiments of scholarship as well as its decorative appeal . |
| 42 | So far as Richard was concerned if his father was eventually going to insist that he give up his conquests then it was at least possible that he would get better terms if he approached Philip directly and offered to abide by the judgement of the French court . |
| 43 | I can only hope that we gave her sufficient help and support when the problems came along . |
| 44 | Bacteriologists immediately recognised that it gave them a unique opportunity to study the evolutionary processes governing bacterial resistance — as a synthetic antibiotic it could not be influenced by preexisting resistance genes . |
| 45 | One of the teachers was saying that you give children pieces of paper to draw anything and most of them will draw a soldier carrying a gun or Caspers , or helicopters , something to do with war . |
| 46 | Some people prefer to work their male ferret on a line , saying that it gives them control over its movements . |
| 47 | Since only the United Nations can do the job of peacemaking , is the Minister concerned that just over half the value of the assessments on individual countries for last year has been paid , and will she therefore press other members of the international community to ensure that they give the United Nations the resources to do that necessary peacemaking and peacekeeping job ? |
| 48 | I refer the hon. Gentleman to the rely that I gave some moments ago . |
| 49 | And , in spite of police demands that he give himself up and intensive searches , he was still at large . |
| 50 | third of November er I guess that they gave erm information about Westbourne Parish Council 's local paper er erm agreed . |
| 51 | I guess that it gave her a sense of independence and allowed her personality , which was fairly dominant , to develop . |
| 52 | I am writing as I disagree with various comments made in an article entitled A Pair of Glasses … by Linda Lewis , as I feel that it gave Indian Glassfish a very negative press . |
| 53 | And I demand that you give them back this minute ! ’ |
| 54 | She could not have borne it if he were suddenly to change his mind and demand that she give the whole thing up . |
| 55 | In other words , they demand that he give a lead ; meanwhile , however , countless obstacles are placed in his path to prevent him from actually exercising leadership . |
| 56 | Respondents welcomed the document , clearly indicating that it gave Religious Education parity of status with other areas of the curriculum . |
| 57 | However , he and Earl Tostig Godwinsson [ q.v. ] were robbed by brigands on their way home , and forced to return to Rome , where Nicholas reinstated Ealdred and gave him the pallium , while insisting that he give up Worcester . |
| 58 | A mother insists on her small son 's going to bed at a certain time , in spite of all his protests , because she knows he needs enough sleep to keep healthy and alert ; but in his view , she is insisting that he gives up his happy play , cutting him off from the rest of the family , for no good reason . |
| 59 | Philip had opened the proceedings by again suggesting an exchange of conquests , but Richard opposed this , arguing that this would mean that he gave up lands , including the Quercy , which brought him an annual revenue of a thousand marks or more , in return for estates in Berry which , though they were fiefs belonging to Aquitaine , were in fact held by other lords and so were of very little direct financial benefit to him . |
| 60 | In his memoirs , ‘ My Web of Time ’ , the Reverend R H Gallagher notes that he gave up his car in 1939 on the outbreak of war and never had another afterwards . |