Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd better give her a ring , I suppose . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd better give her a hand or she 'll sulk . |
| 3 | If you want our marriage to have any chance of success you 'd better give her the sack first thing on Monday morning ! ’ |
| 4 | Right , you 'd better give them a shout , there are n't that many actually |
| 5 | Perhaps you 'd better give him a pop over hurdles tomorrow . ’ |
| 6 | when he gets , when daddy comes home you 'd better give him a big cuddle and ask him |
| 7 | Look , sir , you 'd better give me your passport . ’ |
| 8 | It was on Thursday afternoon , as she was passing Vass 's office , that Lisa struck her head round the door and reminded him , ‘ You 'd better give me directions to your house . |
| 9 | But you 'd better give me your number just in case . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Not only that but , seeming very pleasant and eager to please , I thought , the woman I spoke with then suggested that rather than address my package to Cara in her professional name , just to make sure the package reached you , she 'd better give me your married name . ’ |
| 11 | I 'd better give it to you because he has |
| 12 | I think I 'd better give you a course of broad-spectrum antibiotics . |
| 13 | I think I 'd best give you your supper before he comes back , had n't I ? ’ |
| 14 | Admittedly the referee was a foolish fellow who kept re-penalising Swansea for failing to retreat 10 yards when he did not give them the remotest chance to do so . |
| 15 | In spite of these provisions , not infrequently Courts conveyed the view that the Act did not give them power to make orders with a condition of access . |
| 16 | Their resilience and in part fortuitous revival may have been due to the slightly more permissive policies of the Popular Front government in Paris — thousands of political prisoners were released although thousands more remained in gaol — but much more seems to have been the result of the ability to rebuild an organization from the bottom up even though the advice and instructions they received from international communism meant acquiescence in policies which did not give them pre-eminent appeal as a revolutionary party . |
| 17 | The fact that the applicants in the main proceedings had for some time circumvented the objectives of the Common Fisheries Policy did not give them any legitimate expectation that they would be allowed to continue to do so in the future . |
| 18 | While Eva was at Usher the political situation did not give them too much pause for thought . |
| 19 | Asik knew that his grandparents would die if he did not give them enough water and there was no water left in the pots , so he set off to the river . |
| 20 | The passion she had tried to feel for feminism was not enough , it did not give her enough strength to stand up for herself against the demands of these two women who wanted her , needed her and demanded her . |
| 21 | But he did not give her the opportunity . |
| 22 | The fact that nobody noticed him , let alone the flowers , did not give him ease of conscience , but that was what he sought . |
| 23 | And being organized did not give him pleasure . |
| 24 | He always understood that the papal decree imposed on himself an absolute personal obligation of obedience , but it did not give him a general responsibility for promoting the principle , or for enforcing the obedience of others . |
| 25 | She did not give him time to finish . |
| 26 | But his mother did not give him permission to work . |
| 27 | That was presumably his stage debut , because although his teacher Marjorie Sturman started the Johannesburg Festival Ballet Society about that time , it did not give its first public performance until the following year , when he was already in Cape Town and unable to get away . |
| 28 | Media Vision Technology Inc , making multimedia products in Fremont , California got its initial public offering of 1.75m shares , 1m of them new , away at $26.25 a share ; it did not give its plans for the $25m or so net proceeds . |
| 29 | ‘ I am not concerned about Moore because he did not give me too many problems . |
| 30 | And since she shared Humber 's and my attitude to our job , she did not give me the kind of pep-talk Aline would have come up with in these circumstances . |