Example sentences of "[det] [conj] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs O'Brien here at her home in Slough , was told by her husband that the loan back in nineteen eighty seven was only for sixty thousand pounds , the bank did n't correct this or give her independent advice . |
| 2 | The violence of the eruption and the lightness of the pumice fragments means that they will go higher , and stay air-borne longer than any other kind of pyroclastic material , and it is this that gives pumice deposits their unique properties . |
| 3 | It is this that gives my soul all its joyous elation , |
| 4 | It was this that gave Anselm the hint that peace would not bring him freedom to exercise his episcopal functions . |
| 5 | The hull was presumably steel ; it was this that gave her a rust-streaked look under the dirty coating of ice and snow . |
| 6 | ‘ I must thank you for all this and giving me food in the week and I 'm sorry for what I said , it 's just that I 'm not used to people being nice to me . |
| 7 | The permanent secretary , Sir Peter Thornton , saw the sense of this and gave the idea his blessing . |
| 8 | The military advice given to Mountbatten was that they should not be armed , but he overruled this and gave his recognition to the AFO . |
| 9 | She sometimes remembered this and gave it thought . |
| 10 | Crosse reported this and gave evidence at Lee 's trial . |
| 11 | ‘ I knew you had obtained this and gave it to … er … |
| 12 | When I see the kid alive , I dismantle this and give you the stones . |
| 13 | I asked him to let me have his agreement to this and give me the destination . " |
| 14 | Yeah yeah might as well I 'll make the mincemeat , mince pies this and give you some Ann that 'll save you doing them , wo n't it ? |
| 15 | The two largest of these were especially fine — one representing the Patron Saint as a Roman Soldier on horseback , cutting his cloak in half and giving a half to a beggar . |
| 16 | Fold it in half and give half of it here . |
| 17 | And she 's giving it , do you want a chocolate bar ? it 's poison I break it in half and give it to Geraldine first . |
| 18 | That cut our speed some and gave me thinking time , but the traffic seemed to consist entirely of black cabs and VW Golfs full of party-hoppers . |
| 19 | It 's to start saving money and give some and give some of this money to their private sector friends . |
| 20 | If it is , I 'll just get some and give one each the kids I think we 've got enough sweeties . |
| 21 | [ At a meeting of EC immigration ministers on June 13-14 Denmark announced that it had signed the convention , which was designed to deal with difficulties resulting from asylum seekers moving from one EC country to another and to give asylum seekers a guarantee that their application would be examined by one member country . |
| 22 | Seen to be an ‘ effect ’ of the Universal or Unified Field , it is able to transmit energy patterns from one natural source to another and give rise to a physical formation of those patterns — in other words , the field is believed to be the agent for creation , growth and development throughout nature . |
| 23 | But this steadily dissolved as we shared ideas , asked questions of one another and gave each other leads . |
| 24 | erm so you know but you may find if you give , print off a few and give them to a few people over the weekend |
| 25 | We interpret this as giving an upper flux limit of 0.15mCrab for these regions . |
| 26 | His antipathy to cowardice was such that given the choice between cowardice and violence he would choose violence . |
| 27 | John Finnis criticizes positivists for attributing to natural law thinking a wholly deductive methodology such that given the fundamental principle as major premise and a statement of fact as minor premise the one right answer pops out auto-matically . |
| 28 | Unless there are an appreciable number of genuine deaths from asthma in people aged over 65 this supports my belief that the annual number of deaths due to asthma nationally is nearer 500 than 2000 ( even allowing for some genuine deaths from asthma not certified as such and given that some areas such as West Cumbria and perhaps Hertfordshire seem to have a lower mortality than Norwich ) . |
| 29 | It brought the spectators to their feet in an act of remembrance for Beryl who did so much and gave so much to the Society . |
| 30 | R. H. Tawney observed that the workman 's philosophy was the same as his masters : ‘ get as much and give as little as possible ’ . |