Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] give [pers pn] " in BNC.

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31 If you are disabled , the Social Services Department can give you gadgets to enable you to operate various appliances .
32 Barnardo 's ‘ Positive Options ’ or a social worker from the home finding unit of your local social services department can give you more information about how this might work .
33 Also , if two players are standing very close to each other , the computer might give you the wrong one — repeat until you get it right
34 Arguing things out in front of the child may give him or her the idea that the illness can be used to manipulate difficult family situations — which can create vet more trouble in the future .
35 On the other hand , employers who value the services of key individual employees and are dependent on them accepting a transfer may give them more generous relocation packages .
36 However , if you are aged 60 or over , the AA Retirement Health Plan may give you tax relief on your monthly payments .
37 The first thing to be said is that the ‘ circumstantial variables ’ of a president 's incumbency may give him important advantages .
38 Winter should give me a taste of it .
39 If your sight test shows that you need glasses the optician must give you a prescription .
40 If you do n't need glasses the optician must give you a statement saying that .
41 Oh there 's people go down the Chinese with letters and the boy 'll give it to me erm can I have so and so , so and so , so and so , so and so , I 'll pay you tomorrow when get paid .
42 He thought this kind of work could give him what he most valued , independence and freedom to think .
43 My return could give them a lift . ’
44 " That boy 'd give you the creeps , " she said , still shaky in the glass-house where her husband was working .
45 ‘ But the boss used to give me some right stick and told me I was no good to him lying in bed or on the treatment table .
46 ‘ But the boss used to give me some right stick and told me I was no good to him lying in bed or on the treatment table .
47 However , the inheritance would give me independence for life , and I was glad of that .
48 By that time you were attracted to her , and to defer the session would give you more time to get to know her .
49 ‘ He 's direct , brave and courageous and his inclusion would give them a lift . ’
50 ‘ He 's direct , brave and courageous and his inclusion would give them a lift . ’
51 She was shrewd enough to understand that the way he had been treated as a child would give him the added drive and determination to better himself .
52 He felt safer , despite the darkness , the white , snow-covered common and brittle ice would give him warning of any assassin 's approach .
53 A blood test will give you the answer to this problem I 'm sure .
54 Our compost portfolio will give you a guide .
55 Look , you do n't need to worry about it — at your age the council will give you something if you ca n't find anything yourself …
56 You must not touch this curtain with your hand , but must lay on it the milk-white feather which the hen will give you , and the curtain will be opened silently , by unseen hands , and the doors beyond it will lie open , and you may come into the hall where you shall find what you shall find . ’
57 If you need new glasses because your sight has changed , and you 're in one of the three groups of people shown on pages 10–11 , the optician will give you an NHS voucher to help pay for them .
58 In their most liquid markets New York and Los Angeles , for instance the Real Estate Data Inc publication will give you comprehensive details of ownership , values and rents on a street-by-street basis . ’
59 So simply by carrying on your premium payments at the same level , the DOUBLE PAYOUT PLAN will give you continuing protection for the rest of your life .
60 Charles 's following ( populus ) then swore " in its own language , the lingua romana " : " If Louis keeps the oath which he swears to his brother Charles , and my lord Charles for his part does not keep his , if I can not make him refrain [ from that action ] , then neither I nor any other whom I can make refrain will give him any aid against Louis " .
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