Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [pron] give " in BNC.

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1 I 'm frightened of these teenagers so I give in to their demands for money .
2 We go to the track meets , the basketball matches and we select kids and we give those kids scholarships based on athletic merit .
3 and I yeah I went two months and he give me right , they 're called they 're yellow like round tablets they are , like an aspirin but they 're yellow right ?
4 Erm what I 'll ask Sophie to do if she 's still going on with it , she 'll be a little bit late , just put a couple of plugs in your ears while I give the answer out .
5 But if by any chance the Bairns ' fortunes begin to falter under his chairmanship , and their stalwart position as second-bottom in the league is challenged , then he should not be surprised to hear from the terraces the menacing sound of the fans as they give tongue : ‘ Christie , Christie , Christie — out , out , out ! ’
6 I do my bedroom out every day — sweep it and dust the furniture and I do something else every day , like I dust the tops of the cupboards or I give the wardrobe a polish .
7 We offer a decent finance system that can sustain the functions that we give to local government , and a structure that is not piecemeal , but is based on identifiable communities — that is geared not to numbers alone , but to the ability to provide a decent level of service .
8 the only reason that police get away with drink driving is cos half the buggers are Masons and they give them the old funny hand shake and its oh on your way sir
9 And I think what the Council 's got to do and I think what the what the what the theatre perhaps has to do is only make that leisure card more easily acceptable and available and also look upon the reductions that we give but that perhaps is a way of actually rewarding the people in Harlow to use the theatre and the contribution in actually paying for it at the expense of the people coming in from outside who perhaps do n't pay anything towards the expense of the theatre .
10 The only messages that I give off are of faint delirium and desperate indecision .
11 Erm and it 'll also help us to get the the out of your way , we 'll get out of your hair within five or six days if you give us all the businesses .
12 It can take as long as two weeks after you give your blood sample before you get your result , which can be a difficult and stressful time .
13 Some children may be forced three or four times into a car safety seat to learn the rule but others may take twenty or thirty confrontations over the course of several weeks before they give in .
14 ( 3 ) The replies that you give are not evidence against you in any later criminal trial that may arise from this case .
15 Yeah they do take part cos they 're dying to say things and we give them jobs to do .
16 Yeah under question things and they give you the answers in blue .
17 Localized zones of compressional and tensional stress are common along strike-slip faults and they give rise to a number of distinctive landforms .
18 Okay we a major cause of some five hundred thousand pounds and we give addition to the three point six five one million which has been identified in this amendment .
19 Now erm all the gifts that you give at Confirmation the whole idea of Confirmation in well one of the main ideas of Confirmation is taking on board for yourself what your parents promised for you in baptism .
20 The second answer describes a procedure which relies , in principle , upon oral evidence received at the actual trial , a good deal of importance being attached to the impression the court forms of the parties and the witnesses as they give their evidence .
21 Other fires Gas or paraffin heaters should only ever be used in well ventilated rooms as they give off carbon monoxide .
22 Do n't worry if you ca n't do it if you ca n't any of these any of these exercises that I give you by the way it 's not like homework it 's just for you to play with them to get the do them at your own pace .
23 It was one of those answers that they give sometimes .
24 It is a book that focuses on the questions that psychobiologists ask , rather than on the answers that they give to them .
25 We we ar it was really helpful if we are concrete in actually the answers that we give rather than speculative .
26 We ask them to read the policy , we explain bits in the booklet , we ask them to telephone us if there 's anything they 're not happy with or they 're unsure about and we will clarify that , and also we do give them fourteen days in which to cancel , so if if once they 've actually got the policy , if they 're not happy with it , or they 're not happy with the answers that we give , then they 're more than happy we 're more than happy to refund .
27 The bags were of that thinner kind of plastic they use for the bags that they give away at the supermarket , the free ones ; and now one of the bags in her right hand split and she just stood there helpless to stop them as three cans fell out and rolled across the concrete .
28 I do n't the membership will want a revolution but what we do require is that evolution considered carefully so we do n't stand still and keep our head in the sands and I give you insurance that is what is , is happening .
29 BY DAY , and often by night , Dr Graham Tydeman is a reassuring registrar in obstetrics at Falkirk Royal Infirmary , calming down anxious mothers as they give birth .
30 Bill only likes H P beans and I give Maggie a tin of them seventeen P beans and I says throw the tin away before he sees it and he could n't tell the difference .
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