Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all the fuss you made about my giving you roses , should n't you put them in water first ? ’ |
| 2 | There is no question of my giving way — The Motion having been made after Ten o'clock and the debate having continued for half an hour , Mr. Speaker — adjourned the House without Question put , pursuant to the Standing Order . |
| 3 | 2 If a future Parliament is " hung " with the centre parties holding the balance of power between Conservative and Labour then the Liberals and Social Democrats have made it clear that the price of their giving support to any minority government would be a binding agreement to introduce proportional representation . |
| 4 | Cauterets stands on either side of its Gave , with the older , more villagey quarter on the east bank and the newer , more upstanding parts on the west . |
| 5 | The prospect of his giving a dinner party for the Bishop of Medewich and the Earl of Medewich and Markham afforded him a very straightforward pleasure . |
| 6 | As far as I 'm concerned anybody who wants to sign a contract with me gives me copy and a cheque is a legitimate . |
| 7 | The latter could always turn round — and indeed did turn round — and say ‘ Sorry , love , I do n't mind working on them , but there does n't seem a lot of point in my giving up my free evenings when the star is unwilling to do the same . ’ |
| 8 | To date parishioners have been extremely generous in their giving and the scheme has proved a great success . |
| 9 | A bank will usually be willing to send deeds to you upon your giving its undertaking on its standard forms . |
| 10 | Just think for a moment of the way love is expressed in our giving . |
| 11 | ‘ I wanted to speak to you before I saw Ursula , ’ she concluded , ‘ because she might object to my giving you the private detective 's report on Maurice 's finances . ’ |
| 12 | And what 's that sitting on my give me a hand for my bed you know . |
| 13 | Haldane , according to Drummond , had assured him that he might ‘ depend on all his interest in order to make me happy in every opportunity , in the event on my giveing him my vote & intrest ’ . |
| 14 | There would seem to be no problem about proving enactment — the Royal Assent is today granted by Commissioners and there would seem to be no privilege bar to their giving evidence as to the grant . |
| 15 | Finally , the 1986 Act gave societies the power to seek ‘ incorporation ’ , subject to their giving adequate notice of their intention and subject to a vote by their members . |
| 16 | Such was the interest generated by the above contributors , we look forward to their giving full length talks in the future . |
| 17 | Nevertheless it is important that every member of a firm should be familiar with at least the basic arrangements for its administration and should not be denied access to information about the activities of the firm at any level , subject always to their giving reasonable notice . |
| 18 | As the prosecution still seemed in no hurry to have a trial date set , Chief Judge Moran overruled the government 's objections and ordered that Coleman 's legal passport be returned , subject to his giving the prosecutor two weeks ’ notice of his intention to leave the country and to his reporting in to his pre-trial services officer every other week by telephone . |
| 19 | The modern procedure in the action is for the plaintiff to apply to the registrar of the county court , who will see that the goods alleged to have been wrongfully taken are restored to the plaintiff on his giving security to prosecute an action of replevin in the county court or in the High Court . |
| 20 | Negativity can not exist without your giving it life . |
| 21 | How necessary it is for each one of us to apply the cross to our daily lives — to our giving to one another and to God of our money , our time , our talents . |
| 22 | We had a big family conference tonight about Our Giving . |
| 23 | In both these two more subtly-scored middle period Op. 70 trios , and especially in the eminently civilized exchanges of the second , I was much impressed by their give and take . |
| 24 | It was unclear whether the restoration would be recognized as constitutionally valid by the USSR authorities by their giving the Crimea a seat on the Federation Council ( a recent spate of autonomous regions ' and districts ' unilaterally proclaiming themselves ASSRs , and indeed of ASSRs ' proclaiming themselves full republics , had so far gone unrecognized — see pp. 37664 ; 37788 ) . |