Example sentences of "[vb past] [indef pn] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time Kathleen had sorted the patient out and found someone to give his wife a cup of tea and explain what was happening , Jack was back in Theatre , clad from head to toe in green theatre pyjamas , with a J-cloth hat and a mask . |
| 2 | He needed something to give the hound Sir Henry 's scent , so he paid a maid at Sir Henry 's hotel to steal one of his shoes . |
| 3 | I was pretty sure I would , but I just needed something to give me an extra push . ’ |
| 4 | And did someone give you a sandwich and you and you put it back ! |
| 5 | To Loppe himself he had nothing to give save the task in Cyprus which had seemed most worth doing . |
| 6 | I tried to thank them , but I had nothing to give them . |
| 7 | One came from someone in prison who ‘ had nothing to give but enclosed stamp ’ ; another from a pensioner who had sellotaped a pound coin to her letter and apologized for not sending more . |
| 8 | It was always an elitist kind of limited democracy that was applauded a democracy of powerful , autonomous , but cautious , leaders , in limp relation to passive and uncommitted followers who had nothing to give but their votes and unquestioning support . |
| 9 | He had nothing to give Merymose to take to Kenamun , and the priest-administrator would not thank him for information which cast suspicion on two of the most powerful men in the country . |
| 10 | Half-way down the great boulevard a fakir shouted up to Dara that previously he had always been generous to the poor ; but now he understood that Dara had nothing to give . |
| 11 | She looked at Gay , who was an only child too , but who had nobody to give her a good time , and then her glance travelled to Breeze , who had just admitted in her light-hearted fashion that she had no idea of what the future would hold for her . |
| 12 | He had none to give her . |
| 13 | She felt she had something to give to college life |
| 14 | Johnson told Mrs Thrale , ‘ We went up into a dining-room about as large as your blue room , where we had something given us to eat , and tea and coffee . ’ |
| 15 | I only had one give me a Polo you |
| 16 | He wanted to soothe and calm him and , in the same instant , tell him that he would never want for anything , not as long as he , Nicholas de Loit , MP , had anything to give . |
| 17 | Actually he wanted someone to give some orders to and to deal with the press for him . |