Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Out came the most perfect rendering I had ever heard , ’ said Coghill , ‘ except that given a short while before by John Gielgud in his Haymarket Hamlet . |
| 2 | Commission officials , however , have argued that if given no alternative , fishermen will carry on fishing until there are no fish stocks left . |
| 3 | She had come to the conclusion that if giving up Brentwoods and moving to the country was what Brian wanted , then perhaps she ought to go along with it , stop being selfish . |
| 4 | In Chronic Diseases we are told that when giving remedies in solid form i.e. solid form i.e. granules or powders dry on the tongue , Hahnemann found that remedies prepared with more than two shakes were too strong so stayed with two strokes for consistency ; but during the last years since I have been giving every dose of medicine in a solution , divided over fifteen , twenty or thirty days and even more , no potentizing in an attenuating vial is found too strong , and again I use ten strokes . ’ |
| 5 | It was fortunate that Nigel was never happier than when given a problem . |
| 6 | To decide , for instance , who will do the caring and where gives everyone , including the older person , a chance to make their wishes known . |
| 7 | That night he slept in an old cardboard box that he 'd found , and that gave him some protection from the chilling morning dew . |
| 8 | Some seven years before the death of King Charles II , Princess Mary of England had married William of the House of Orange , and that gave rise to the English-Dutch alliance in 1678 . |
| 9 | It opened up a three-shot lead going into the second and that gave us a nice little cushion to work with . |
| 10 | He was in the top three after round one , and that gave me my first taste of a possible major win . |
| 11 | ‘ When I was fired at , he missed and that gave me a love of life . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We equalised their opening goal very quickly and that gave us a real lift because by then Liverpool could have been two or three up . ’ |
| 13 | He said : ‘ I played in the unofficial Tests against all the rebel sides that came out to South Africa in the 1980s and that gave me a good idea of what to expect . |
| 14 | Statements of evidence were prepared and served in accordance with the rules and a psychiatric report from a consultant psychiatrist was available at court and that gave the early history and background about this very disturbed boy . |
| 15 | And that gave you what ? |
| 16 | It drifted and swirled about him , making him peaceful and tired , until his sense of loss began to go and the night was no longer awesome , for he had the protection of a Callanish eagle near him , and that gave him peace to rest and sleep at last … |
| 17 | And that gave me how many flies were gon na be eaten . |
| 18 | She was fine and that gave me the courage to go on , then the unveiling was held up because the trustees thought it would be controversial and it was … |
| 19 | And that gave me a terrible feeling , I just did n't know what to , whether to you know , you was sad and yet you felt wild at them putting it that way . |
| 20 | I would put vodka in his beer , and that gave him a very grumpy constitution after lunch- and he would start shouting back at Winner . |
| 21 | Now what you did when you worked out seventy eight per cent , you say seventy eight over a hundred , and you put it in your calculator , and you did seventy eight divided by a hundred , and that gave you nought point seven eight . |
| 22 | He was very glad to hear Charles was getting so much better — he did n't want his brother 's death on his conscience , he said , and that gave Rachel a lot of hope for a future reconciliation . |
| 23 | Just before half-time , Bristol defender , Matt Bryant got sent off , after being booked twice and that gave Swindon an even bigger advantage . |
| 24 | But last night the Press Association published the biggest poll yet undertaken and that gave Labour an overall 7pc swing from Conservatives to Labour , a swing that in some areas reached as high as 10.5pc . |
| 25 | ‘ I failed by one shot when I should have made it easily , and that gave me the kick up the backside I needed . ’ |
| 26 | brick inset was all the brick and then plastered over and that gave the black and white effect , but that was the original and the , the proper way to do it |
| 27 | Tunnard ( 1989 ) makes some excellent suggestions about ways this can be achieved , including : improving ways of providing emergency protection for children at times of crisis by drawing upon the support of the extended family and local community ; involving parents in decision making , providing parents ' representatives and encouraging the development of local support groups ; improving what happens after separation by offering children and families choices about what can be done , and ensuring contact is promoted and maintained ; dealing with sexual abuse cases in ways that help non-abusing parents to avoid taking a defensive position and that give them the resources and support they need to be able to protect their children . |
| 28 | Oryx make better use of the available plant food than domestic animals , and if given adequate protection in the wild could become a valuable source of food for local people . |
| 29 | And if given to us as actual temptations , the rather lure of the church , the Reverend Simon Stephen Daedalus SJ , and the lure of the flesh ‘ He closed his eyes , surrendering himself to her body and mind , conscious of nothing in the world but the dark pressure of her softly parting lips ’ . |
| 30 | And I went to the Magistrates and acted and and gave witness on behalf of this old gentleman . |