Example sentences of "they give [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The intimacy with which she and Luke explored each other 's mouths was possession of a kind , so wholly were they given to that long kiss , and when it ended they had to have it all over again , instantly , mouths colliding with an urgency which carried them dangerously beyond mere sensuality .
2 But how much sympathy will they give to a platform whose rules are ‘ Never trust a scientific report ’ and ‘ Never trust a scientist ’ ?
3 Babies should have their nappies changed regularly because when they become wet they give off heat do n't they ?
4 Well it does I mean with these light being fluorescent , they give off a small charge , when the you know when the lights come on .
5 They do , and they give off a nice piny smell as well
6 In a survey of school-children , we might expect that the answers they give in an interview held in the headmaster 's study will be different from those they give at home , or out of doors .
7 While DCSLs do not appear actually to veto specific requests , the advice they give on the relative quality of alternative publications — through direct comment to the teacher responsible for submitting the school 's list — can be persuasive .
8 Right , here 's one where they give you a little bit of the table This this is a That 's a fairly complicated sort of thing that they give on the table , erm give you the valencies and the
9 The value of the heavy minerals is in the information they give on a sediment 's provenance , although their dissolution during diagenesis may result in modification to the original assemblage ( Morton , 1985b ) .
10 As the later authors have adjusted the dating of the Muftilik of Molla Arab in order to make room for that of Abdulkerim , so they have stretched the facts considerably in extending the Muftilik of Molla Husrev to cover the whole vexed period from the date which they give for the death of Fahreddin Acemi , namely 865/1460–1 , to that which they give for the accession of Molla Gurani ( 885/1480 ; but cf. below , pp. 144 et sqq. , especially p. 150 ) .
11 As the later authors have adjusted the dating of the Muftilik of Molla Arab in order to make room for that of Abdulkerim , so they have stretched the facts considerably in extending the Muftilik of Molla Husrev to cover the whole vexed period from the date which they give for the death of Fahreddin Acemi , namely 865/1460–1 , to that which they give for the accession of Molla Gurani ( 885/1480 ; but cf. below , pp. 144 et sqq. , especially p. 150 ) .
12 Transactions differ in the strains they place on decision-making ability , the scope they give for opportunism , and the degree to which they involve human dignity .
13 yeah and I do n't know what they give for it but it would it would be very reasonable but it 's
14 sixty nine , nine seven five on it , what they give for it will they ?
15 Is that what they give for it , sixty nine thou ?
16 Council , although , the amount of money they give for this kind of research is pretty sparse !
17 But what is most striking about both books is the sense they give of how desolate and enclosed an adolescence could be , at opposite ends of the society .
18 For George Eliot , the charm of similar objects inheres in the evidence they give of use :
19 It is also structured by the biographical situation of the person using the term and the definitions they give to their work role .
20 Nothing is more characteristic of churches than their attitude to assurance and the place they give to it in their preaching and systems of doctrine .
21 If that is the sense they give to the word ‘ Panslavism ’ , oh ! then I am a Panslav .
22 ( The authors ' respect for children is further demonstrated by the attention they give to misreadings — ‘ miscues ’ — and blocking .
23 Many Home Helps become very fond of the elderly people they visit , often doing all kinds of extra jobs for them when they have the time , and the moral support they give to lonely old people is invaluable .
24 It also provides a useful example to journalists bored with adding the suffix ‘ -gate ’ to the names they give to all political scandals , regardless of whether they have anything to do with break-ins in Washington : by adding ‘ -dome ’ hacks can bring a new sense of variety to their reports , regardless of whether they have anything to do with teapots .
25 Teachers of English will differ in the weight they give to each of these views of the subject .
26 The counsellor , in a variety of ways , has to feed back to counsellees the impressions they give to others , and the way they ‘ come across ’ to other people .
27 Given half a chance they would ‘ retrobolt ’ ( what curious technical names they give to hearsay these days ) everything we hold dear .
28 It is a book that focuses on the questions that psychobiologists ask , rather than on the answers that they give to them .
29 Up at HM Systems Plc in North London , they innocently ran a letter through the thing , and once they had stopped chortling , they rang us to advise that people should stick to calling the new chip the 80586 in any correspondence they give to their secretary unless they 're confident that , in the words of Larry Hart , she 's a broad with a broad , broad mind .
30 However , it remains possible that people do see the support which they give to elderly relatives as part of a two-way pattern which stretches over time and across generations , and where they themselves will benefit ultimately from the support of someone in a younger generation .
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