Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told her story to an officer she did not know and gave him the number of the Bristol callbox . |
| 2 | This makes it vomit and gives it diarrhoea , so you 're flushing the toxins out of both ends . |
| 3 | By a summons dated 10 April 1992 the local authority sought orders against W. and her aunt , who shared with the local authority parental responsibility for her , that leave be given to move her to such establishment as the Official Solicitor might approve and to give her medical treatment without her consent . |
| 4 | We did n't know whether to give it to her or not . |
| 5 | I do n't know whether to give Vera her present today or tomorrow . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you think that gives you some kind of hold over me ? |
| 7 | But on the other there were the usual fears that the United States might overreact or give too high a priority to the Far East at the expense of Europe . |
| 8 | In either case there is , it seems , little that we could do except give examples . |
| 9 | I gathered , however , that they expected it to continue to get worse and that there was nothing they could do except give me vitamins . |
| 10 | Conference , I ask you , with that response what does that hold for our social services within our communities and how hopelessly helpless we must feel that given we will certainly not ? |
| 11 | Now , one of them will rotate to the right , one will rotate to the left what you need to be able to do is to identify the condition that will give that give rise to optical isomers , in other words , to be able to say yes , that molecule will have optical isomers . |
| 12 | We found HEp-2 cells were easy to grow and manipulate and gave reliable results in the adhesion studies ; this is the cell line recommended for adhesion assay of enteropathogenic and other pathogenic E coli . |
| 13 | NHS professionals normally perceive day hospitals as a possible alternative to hospital admission for people who are acutely ill and can not be treated as outpatients or at home , as a place for recently discharged short-term in-patients to attend for a period while settling back into normal life , and as a place to treat , monitor and give social support to long-term patients who would otherwise live isolated lives . |
| 14 | As he had no children , how could anyone say what kind of a father he would make until given a chance to prove it himself ? |
| 15 | This all shows that stones are very active and can absorb and give out energies . |
| 16 | If the lord abbot agrees , I hope you will stay and give us the benefit of your judgement . |
| 17 | The ‘ sheriff ’ came out and said that Customs wanted us to fly to Darwin for clearance , but we begged for mercy and he let us stay and gave us a ride to a lodge in the police wagon . |
| 18 | Or would it better to speak with Carl and Sam first — let them explain and give comfort to Ma ? |
| 19 | If the Purchaser shall be in receipt of any claim , or any fact or circumstance comes to the notice of the Purchaser which might constitute or give rise to a liability pursuant to any of the warranties the Purchaser shall forthwith notify the Vendor giving full details so far as practicable and shall not make any admission of liability or settle or comprise any such claim without the prior written consent of the Vendor such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed ( subject to being indemnified and secured to its reasonable satisfaction against all costs and expenses incurred or for which it may become liable ) ; |
| 20 | Remember that accountants can report or give opinions but often can not certify . |
| 21 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 22 | Gusev knew from experience that sooner or later something would emerge and give the vital clue . |
| 23 | Since wages and prices tend to be ‘ sticky ’ in the downward direction , the only way that the price mechanism can work and give the appropriate signals is for the prices of different goods and services to rise at different rates . |
| 24 | The literature on dieting reinforces this notion by publishing diets that certainly do work and giving case histories of dieters who have succeeded in getting slim using these methods . |
| 25 | Whatever the merits of the arguments against Mr Soley 's proposal for a Select Committee in place of the Commissioner , they are much less convincing when applied to the more modest proposal put forward at the time by the SDP that there could be a Select Committee confining itself to the Commissioner 's report ‘ so that in turn it would report and give some reality to parliamentary accountability ’ . |
| 26 | The main function of early presbyters was not to preach or celebrate but to give counsel to bishops . |
| 27 | Thus the procedure we have already set up will work when given a program not containing any PAR constructs . |
| 28 | Mozart has shown us on many occasions in his scores how delightful a melodic phrase can sound when given to bassoon and flute at two octaves distance . |
| 29 | If the rat does not run when given some signal ( such as a light coming on ) , the experimenter gives it an electric shock . |
| 30 | Dadda did n't answer but gave his awkward humourless grin . |