Example sentences of "i [vb mod] give the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Otherwise — tonight , and I will give the call . |
| 32 | If the established players are not doing it , I will give the youngsters a chance to show they can . |
| 33 | ‘ I will take you back to the cage … and in the morning I will give the order that you are to be called by any name you want . ’ |
| 34 | I will give the crown to my brother , and leave England . |
| 35 | ‘ Since she can tell us no more , I will give the order for the embalmers to take her . ’ |
| 36 | I will give the right hon. Gentleman no such undertaking ; nor did he expect me to . |
| 37 | I will give the same careful scrutiny to that application , if it reaches me , as I shall give to applications from Princess Margaret Rose orthopaedic hospital , from Lothian college of nursing , from the Victoria infirmary in Glasgow or from any others which express interest . |
| 38 | And what this means is that from now on the cla lectures will trail the classes , which , which does n't matter and is actually quite er a good thing in the sense that what will happen from now on is that we 'll first do a topic in the class and then I will give the lecture on it the week after , or possibly even two weeks after , which is okay because it means that then in the lecture I can concentrate on filling in the gaps , straightening out the misunderstandings and generally adding to what we did in the class , rather than leading as it were as I have up until now . |
| 39 | ‘ As usual , I will give the hospital plenty of warning , ’ he added . |
| 40 | amazed I actually did erm what happened erm I was happened to be upstairs and my wife shouted quick quick there 's a zither , so I zoomed down here and the lady was still talking to you and a dialled well consequently I did n't get through for quite some time but I did eventually , erm your lady on the reception said well it 's gone now she said but I will give the lady 's telephone number and I spoke to the lady and told her the position and she says well if it 's not collected by so time I 'll g ring you back and I said well I 've been after one for a long long time she said well I ca n't understand it cos I 've been advertising it . |
| 41 | NOW that we have come back — with our half-used tubes of Factor 20 sun-cream , the remnants of a jar of Arnica ( for bruises ) , and the broken paper umbrella that decked my son 's wiener schnitzel for our last supper — I can give the lie to all those Doubting Thomases who said that five small boys on skis was a recipe for disaster , not a holiday . |
| 42 | I do not think I can give the petitioner superior rights . |
| 43 | I can give the House no assurance about what the Soviet — |
| 44 | I believe that Wales is much better placed to ride out the worldwide recession than it has been and I can give the hon. Gentleman this pledge : I and my ministerial colleagues will continue to do everything that we can to attract investment to Wales . |
| 45 | I can give the hon. Gentleman and the House some comfort by saying that over the next two years things will change dramatically . |
| 46 | That will be the case and I can give the hon. Member for Newham , North-East ( Mr. Leighton ) that undertaking . |
| 47 | The most comforting assurance that I can give the hon. Gentleman , which I am sure that he will welcome , is that the results of the study will be made public . |
| 48 | I am not sure that I can give the hon. Gentleman the first information that he requested . |
| 49 | I can give the hon. Gentleman the undertaking — it is of the sort that I gave him in Committee — that I believe that many things should be done with the extra resources that we shall have , and in the context of administrative matters the care of records is relevant . |
| 50 | It is worth getting this formidable reputation into perspective by quoting the words of Edward O. Wilson , the world 's foremost authority on ants as well as the author of Sociobiology : In answer to the single question I am asked most frequently about ants , I can give the following answer : No , driver ants are not really the tenor of the jungle . |