Example sentences of "[pers pn] give with " in BNC.

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1 I READ with interest the article about me ( Echo March 2 ) which draws on an interview I gave with two journalists from the Sunday Mail .
2 Actually , she opened with Mozart 's scena Misera , dove son which tested her somewhat at the top of the stave , but there followed arias from Manon , Don Pasquale and La Forza del Destino which she gave with commanding conviction , variety and characterisation .
3 She had never counted how much she gave with such ardent pleasure .
4 In a footnote he does point to the aid they gave with money through the various aid-Spain funds but also derides this contribution , emphasising that ‘ the sum raised … would not equal five per cent of the turnover of the football pools during the same period . ’
5 Equally remarkably , he made them open their pockets , so that they gave with extraordianry generosity when other communities as far away as Italy suffered disasters like their own .
6 The meeting denounced the contradictions of rich countries ' policies which " took with one hand — by protectionism — what they gave with the other — development aid " , while an OECD divisional head noted that " the question of migration relates directly to the need for a different co-operation and development policy and for trade liberalization " .
7 People did n't have much to give but what they gave they gave with a good heart you know .
8 An irony of the Budget was that what it gave with one hand it took away with the other .
9 Gentrification benefits selectively , takes away with one hand as it gives with another , bestowing respectability at a cost of displacement ( chapters 5 and 6 ) .
10 Yes that seems to me to fit that sort of bill , erm to be quite honest I would prefer that we base the promises on a previous paper that T six six one , er you know , sort of er typical success of the fact looking forward cos at least erm that 's not so erm , you know , sort of difficult to erm you know achieve as erm sort of repairing potholes within , when you consider that the reason that the potholes do n't get mended is because government legislation has it that we have to actually erm have lines painted all round them , so that they can be part of the package of er road mending in many cases , I mean urgently erm difficult ones are not that common er so I think that perhaps some of these promises are so difficult because it gives with one hand and takes back with the other , you know , it says we promise , but , I , I would say that 's not much of a promise , you say I promise to erm , you know , erm merge , I forgot about , but if it said but , you know , if it rains I wo n't tell you , er it would be very sad
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