Example sentences of "[verb] and give " in BNC.
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| 31 | Try and give out one ‘ thank you ’ a day ; it wo n't hurt too much , I promise ! |
| 32 | Try and give him the benefit of the doubt . |
| 33 | The Chief Officer said quite clearly last er last time that the decisions were decisions for members and members came up with a view last time that we should not remove that whole time crew from St Albans which was the one firm decision that was made at the last meeting and what Councillor is now suggesting that we should take out those twenty eight whole time fire fighters and then try and give us ten back if we 're lucky . |
| 34 | If there was no correlation , well you 'd expect them to be mixed up a bit so that negatives might occur with negatives or they might occur with positives vice-versa Now , I 'm g try and give you a feel for how these numbers , how we work out the correlation coefficient in terms of Z scores . |
| 35 | Try and give her a red nightie . |
| 36 | I always give them some when I , when I see them , I try and give them you know |
| 37 | You try and give you money , there he is there . |
| 38 | One poet wrote a poem called the Hound of Hell in which he pictures Francis Thompson , the na name of the poet , in which he he pictures Je , er God pursuing men and women down through the corridors and labyrinths of time , down throughout their life , relentlessly pursuing and no matter how much you try and give God the slip , there he is , he will pursue you , he will seek you out , he desires to ca , for you to come to know him , and you can not get rid of God that easily ! |
| 39 | And he 'd come out maybe at ten o'clock , just gone and give you tuppence or some would give you a penny . |
| 40 | she 's saying she enjoys knitting I just gone and give a great big plastic bag full |
| 41 | She 's looking through this rack of suits so I go and give her a hand . |
| 42 | Now , off you go and give me some peace . |
| 43 | A white woman asks for a bath , and they go and give her the key to the bathroom , things like that . |
| 44 | ‘ You go and give that in writing to my wife in the house . |
| 45 | United are just one point and one place off the bottom … its Gillingham at home tomorrow and that 's a game they 've got to win … so go and give them a cheer |
| 46 | Go and give her a kiss . |
| 47 | Go and give her a big cuddle . |
| 48 | It 's a a a re a really nice restaurant but you can pick all your food raw and they just , there 's a chef cooking , and you just get one of these plates , you can have as many helpings as you want , they serve you a cold starter and a hot starter but there 's a buffet that 's about half the size of our club and one side of it it 's all fish on a wet fish slab , and steak , and veal , and chicken and so there 's every sort of meat you can think of , and you can pick a wooden platter full of it , so you go and give it the chef with this number that they give you and then they come serve you with whatever you want . |
| 49 | Go and give mum a shout please Je ? |
| 50 | I mean , they should n't want more than seven per cent because the cost of living , you know , the inflation 's gone down , but then when a bloke gets forty five thousand quid , you know eh , on a firm where they 've a , they 've made a profit , but he got an increase of forty five thousand pound which was of , no , no about forty per cent rather , forty per cent increase in his salary , I mean it 's bloody , I mean , how can , how can they expect , you know , the ordinary working man to put up with bloody awful increase , if , if they go and give bosses increases like that , I mean it does n't make sense . |
| 51 | But I said just go and give her a fair chance and I |
| 52 | Go and give that back to daddy . |
| 53 | Go and give me |
| 54 | And her husband , go and give them a clout , so she said , no , and she walked up to them , and quietly said , |
| 55 | treat employees sympathetically if they relapse and give them another chance if they take advice and undergo treatment |
| 56 | Friedrich Engels singled out the river Aire in Leeds and the Irk in Manchester for special mention : ‘ In dry weather , a long string of the most disgusting , blackish-green slime pools are left standing on this bank , from the depth of which bubbles of miasmatic gas constantly arise and give forth a stench unendurable . ’ |
| 57 | It is revealing , for example , to compare Engels ' description of Manchester courts close to the Irk , ‘ from the depths of which bubbles of miasmatic gas constantly arise and give forth a stench unendurable ’ , with Mrs Gaskell 's account of a Manchester court in Mary Barton . |
| 58 | Well no , you ge if you won and give the rest a game . |
| 59 | The declaration stated that , whereas heretofore , to wit , etc. , in consideration that the plaintiff , at the request of the defendant , had then consented to allow the defendant to weigh divers , to wit two , boilers of the plaintiff , of great value , etc. , defendant promised that he would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected , leave and give up the boilers in as perfect and complete a condition , and as fit for use by plaintiff , as the same were in at the time of the consent so given by plaintiff ; and that , although in pursuance of the consent so given , defendant to wit , on , etc. , did weigh the same boilers , yet defendant did not nor would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected leave and give up boilers in as perfect , etc. , but wholly neglected and refused so to do , although a reasonable time for that purpose had elapsed before the commencement of this suit ; and , on the contrary thereof , defendant afterwards , to wit on , etc. , took the said boilers to pieces and did not put the same together again but left the same in a detached and divided condition , and in many different pieces , whereby plaintiff hath been put to great trouble , etc . |
| 60 | One of Margaret Donaldson 's outstanding qualities is that she is highly adept at encouraging people not only to think and give rein to the excitement of ideas , but also to think critically , and , above all , to think for themselves . |