Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] give [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I frequently give into their hands my best guns and never found them in the slightest degree disposed to take advantage . |
| 2 | The main and very unsatisfying conclusion that I have reached may he expressed in the title I sometimes give to a lecture on the subject : " There 's something damn funny about the stratigraphical record " . |
| 3 | The answer is 0.9 recurring , but I do not expect to be awarded great sums of public money for this discovery , which I freely give to the world ; nor do I demand the overthrow of government and its takeover by a gang of lower-class hooligans . |
| 4 | How much simpler to say , ‘ I never give to charities . ’ |
| 5 | The constructivist thesis , it is argued , is not relevant because mental representations have not been defined away and replaced by talk of actions : we still have to say how mental life as we know it to be , with the representational character that we naturally give to it , relates to neuronal life . |
| 6 | As well as giving presents , let us make sure that we also give of our time and attention to those who care about us and our thanks to those who have given to us . |
| 7 | If we had such a network , we would be able to withdraw the support which we currently give to private practitioners , but the Minister knows that we can not do so at this stage because there is no body of effective legal advice and opinion to benefit people . |
| 8 | It is a prevalent source of distress to teachers that they are unable to ‘ be themselves ’ in school , and this is the reason that they often give for leaving , or wanting to leave , the profession . |
| 9 | They seldom give to the relationship the commanding priority that women , particularly in the early stages of loving , feel to be appropriate . |