Example sentences of "as give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | seeing as give me one , what 's that ? |
| 2 | As give them something that 's not gon na be erm of use , or something that they do n't see |
| 3 | This can help to sustain , protect and help healthy growth as well as give you peace of mind . |
| 4 | These are usually presented as small corners made up in the particular moulding to give you an idea of the finished effect , but any reputable framer will be able to answer any questions you have , as well as give you plenty of sound advice should you need it . |
| 5 | Then , ‘ She still loves me , then , despite me being such an idiot as to give her that ‘ see me privately , or not at all ’ ultimatum ? ’ |
| 6 | I 've always made a point of borrowing money from women early in the relationship so as to give them a hold over me . |
| 7 | On the other hand , many fringe bodies are located on the fringe exactly in order to distance them from the core of government so as to give them a degree of independence from public control . |
| 8 | Numbers of young women have told me that they look upon life in quite a different light now that they learn that nature has not been so cruel to them , as to give them but the choice of a married life , in which probably all the highest aims of life must be sacrificed , and the wife reduced to the level of a breeding animal , or a life of celibacy . |
| 9 | Johnson declared himself in favour of such prescribed succession : ‘ His opinion was that so much land should be entailed as that families should never fall into contempt , and as much left free as to give them all the advantages in case of any emergency . ’ |
| 10 | Of the second here illustrated , the Moss Provence , Miller said that it had not long been known in London and the first time he saw it ‘ was in 1727 in the garden of Dr Boerhaave near Leyden who was so good as to give me one of the plants , but from where it came I could not learn . |
| 11 | ‘ I suborned Aubrey Rivington into so far forgetting his professional integrity as to give me an illicit copy of that photograph . |
| 12 | And I wonder , ’ she went on as Melissa murmured a polite and hypocritical response , ‘ if you 'd be so kind as to give me a lift to the school this morning ? |
| 13 | She did n't go so far as to give me her telephone number , but I prudently copied it from the instrument at a point during the interview when she was distracted : when one of Brenda 's children had somehow slipped into the room to find a drum stacked halfway down a pile of similar toys . |
| 14 | His left hand , bent with arthritis , curved over a stick on which he leant so heavily as to give him the appearance of physical deformity . |
| 15 | ‘ THE shareholders must be hoping the bank has n't gone as far as to give him a company credit card ’ — Labour leader John Smith , on ex-Chancellor Norman Lamont 's new employer , Rothschilds Bank . |
| 16 | ‘ It needs a born Highlander to understand aright our Scottish Highlanders ’ , goes on JTR , ‘ and to gather from them all the lore they know , so as to give us pictures that will live on in after ages . |
| 17 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 18 | ( 7 ) The agreement will be construed so as to give it business efficacy . |
| 19 | Even then , it is not so bad as to give you taxi syndrome . |
| 20 | There is little point in writing an excellent script if it fails , through your own fault , to be processed in such a way as to give you full credit . |
| 21 | Suspicious of voluntary admissions , social workers regarded court orders as giving them more control : yet the perverse outcome of more adversarial methods was to introduce an increased element of crisis . |
| 22 | As revealing is his observation that the rights of the workers in the separate producers ' societies were regarded as giving them their distinctive Co-operative character . |
| 23 | Well I do n't se I do n't think that it has been badly designed for the old people , I think the object of building the town as it has been built is to integrate the erm the old people with the young , perhaps the young people resent that but I think we have got to have a mixed community in as much as we have got to be aware that old people need attention in as much as they need companionship and if they are not integrated with the community they are going to be I really se , just left out on their own which in lots of cases there are very , very many lonely people , old people but if they are put within the community I think the community will look after them , in as much as giving them companionship whether the people , some people resent it or not , I do n't know , but I do think that they should not be segregated . |
| 24 | What matters about lying is giving people false beliefs , just as giving them true ones is what matters about telling the truth . |
| 25 | Throughout human history , disabled people have constantly confounded the low expectations of others , and how much better it would be for special educators to raise the expectations of disabled children and their families by giving them an understanding of this , by helping them to accept their disabled identities with pride , by helping them to understand their place in the world and their rights as well as giving them the practical skills to deal with these issues . |
| 26 | Thus , while a Luxembourger , an Irishman , a Dutchman or a Belgian may see a European superstate as giving them a much larger stage on which to perform and one that would cost them nothing in sovereignty since what they have is already so diluted , to us it would mean the end of that independence which has allowed us to play a unique and continuing role in world affairs and to have this Gracious Speech setting out our parliamentary programme . |
| 27 | As well as giving me lunch , she had rooms to let which were permanently occupied by her ‘ regulars ’ ; two lawyers , a mature medical student and a businessman . |
| 28 | This has ensured that the video is up to date , as well as giving me a few more grey hairs ! |
| 29 | The libraries that Hoggart remembers as giving him his first education in English literature acquired serious books of every kind . |
| 30 | Skipton and its members rounded out his trans-Pennine duchy interests , as well as giving him his first territorial stake in the West Riding . |