Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was obliged to write essays … where I gave myself up to an almost purely artistic rendering of such facts as I remembered , and such opinions as I could concoct by the help of memory , fancy , and the radical and the free-thinking influence of home … |
| 2 | At the Red Cross warehouse , we were met by Stoyaeka who drove us to her house where she gave us a meal of soup , bread , stew and dumplings , all washed down with a very palatable local red wine . |
| 3 | Matt put in , ‘ Departing guests pay their accounts at the office , where she gives them a receipt , and Ling takes his list of commodities to her — things to be ordered for the kitchen , you understand . ’ |
| 4 | If you only get vocabulary where you give the item in English there is a risk that you will miss common words where there is no equivalent in English . |
| 5 | well you do n't have to go where you give you one |
| 6 | A highlight was a party in the children 's hospital where we gave presents to all of the children , mums and staff as well as handing over medical supplies and a lap-top computer . |
| 7 | On the other hand , contracts will only provide sufficient evidence where they give rise to a ‘ firm commitment ’ : the reporting entity 's obligation resulting from the contract can be enforced by an external party , and the circumstances are such that if necessary it will be so enforced . |
| 8 | Every so often , he goes to a local hospital where they give him an injection of something , which cheers him up noticeably . |
| 9 | Whenever we need to go to and from the Institute , or even if we want to make an expedition into town , we go to the Car Office , at the hotel , where they give us deluxe transport by car , and pick us up again when we want to return . |
| 10 | Where they gave me meat and drink . ’ |
| 11 | Their homeward journey took them via Lille ( where Wolfgang fell ill ) , Ghent , Antwerp and The Hague ( where they gave two public concerts and played , by special request , to the Princess of Weilburg , to whom Wolfgang dedicated a set of six keyboard and violin sonatas ) . |
| 12 | But he could and did hold a fringe meeting with the Bow Group , where he gave the becoming speech of a statesman . |
| 13 | Then , leaving his sobbing family at home , he dashed to a soccer match , where he gave away a penalty and cheated his team of a victory . |
| 14 | Those that he produced for sale through the Redfern Gallery were usually printed in editions of fifty and include Thames-side , Bull Fight , Spain , Tropical Landscape , Horse Guards in their Dressing Rooms at Whitehall and Working Men 's College , this last relating to his association with the Working Men 's College in Crowndale Road , Mornington Crescent , where he gave a lecture , ‘ The Painter 's Intention ’ , in 1952 , taught lithography and also acted as Art Adviser . |
| 15 | By 1578 he was town clerk of Colchester , a puritan borough , where he gave the address welcoming the queen in 1579 . |
| 16 | Ackroyd pastiches Dickens in form rather than style — which is to say that this book is very long , Dickensianly long ( the main text signs off at page 1084 , where it gives way to a fat coda of source notes , bibliography and index ) . |
| 17 | Because it was the women themselves who were organizing it because they felt part of it they did n't see it as some sort of other people that were more politically motivated that than them giving them something to keep them out on strike , which by its very nature could could have been something that the people would have accepted for a while and then not accepted . |
| 18 | Any more than I give more than an irritated passing thought to turning up a heater when the temperature drops . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , if it 's sexual she has less discrimination than I gave her credit for . ’ |
| 20 | It 's a bit annoying like , cos I ca n't remember , so I give Marie back the pictures . |
| 21 | The fish gives a little , so I give a little , which is a mistake , for the fish takes advantage of my generosity and dives again for whatever refuge it seeks under the raft . |
| 22 | I 'm frightened of these teenagers so I give in to their demands for money . |
| 23 | ‘ So I gave him a clip across the back and told him ‘ No ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't really believe in marriage , but I did n't want to lose my husband either , so I gave in , ’ she explains . |
| 25 | There were a lot of young drunks staggering about , too — most at that noisy and unattractive stage where they might want to be your pal or pick a fight or just throw up on you , so I gave them a wide berth . |
| 26 | His Spanish was almost non-existent , and he did not know how to study a foreign language , so I gave him lessons . |
| 27 | It seemed she expected an answer , so I gave it . |
| 28 | By this time I was frothing at the mouth like a rabid dog in walking boots with the effort of running in the heat , so I gave in and resumed normal speed . |
| 29 | When Nicklaus did finally track me down he told me the bag was still mine if I wanted it , but I told him I 'd already committed myself , so I gave up the chance . |
| 30 | I had visions of a nomad 's only camel eating it and dying , so I gave chase , watching the dust from my feet overtake me . |