Example sentences of "i [vb base] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean given the size of China I mean th there 'd be |
| 2 | Would you watch fo women fo , I mean given the |
| 3 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 4 | I mean to give an earlier example , when at the beginning of this century , Mendel 's laws of genetics were rediscovered and an enormous growth of genetics took place and indeed is still taking place , initially Mendelism was seen by it 's practitioners and by biologists as a whole as a challenge to Darwinism , as an alternative to Darwin , and great fights took place for twenty years or so between the Darwinians and the Mendelians . |
| 5 | well there you are then , yeah she goes to school does n't she , well I think it 's sad I mean giving a child a name like that |
| 6 | I intend to give you a demonstration today based on work that Kevin has done . |
| 7 | Uncle says to nephew : ‘ I intend to give you my shares in the Super Company on your twenty-first birthday . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , I intend to give myself a reward , ’ Merrill said , going over to his window and closing it . |
| 9 | ‘ I intend to give it a really good go , because I have the opportunity this year which I did n't have last season . ’ |
| 10 | Because I have on good information and I 'll say it for the first time on this programme , I intend to give this in my evidence tomorrow , that Rover intend to close not the south works first , but the north works first . |
| 11 | I vill give you a game of dominoes , and if you vin … vell , den I buy you a drink . |
| 12 | ‘ I hate to give up when we 're so close . |
| 13 | When I 'm not working , I tend to give it a break from putting anything on it . |
| 14 | So I tend to give them a wide berth wherever possible . |
| 15 | ‘ No one knows more than me how much I owe to this country , how much I vow to give back to it for what it has done to me , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Camilla : I vow to give him up |
| 17 | My friend , you say only a merlan , I say give me your whiting and I will create a masterpiece — a soufflé de merlan à la Didier . ’ |
| 18 | I say give the boy another chance . |
| 19 | ‘ I do not propose to argue with you , I propose to give you sixteen shillings and a halfpenny . |
| 20 | As I am fully conscious of the importance of preserving national unity , I propose to give your Government complete support in the vigorous prosecution of the War ; but unity without action is nothing but futile carnage , and I can not be responsible for that . |
| 21 | the reason I propose giving he has to do is come |
| 22 | in order to get , because I hesitate to give you more work to do , you got enough work . |
| 23 | WHICHEVER party you will be supporting on Thursday , I suggest giving your own party at home for friends to share the late-night vigil . |
| 24 | ‘ I want to give the people who use my houses a rare and primitive relationship with the raw forces of nature . |
| 25 | If people want to kill themselves , that 's their affair , but when they come here I want to give them food which will do them food rather than harm . |
| 26 | ‘ Please — I want to give you a message for Harriet Shakespeare . ’ |
| 27 | I want to give you good answers to your questions . ’ |
| 28 | I want to give the public what they want , ’ said Lew Grade . |
| 29 | I want to give them back their life . ’ |
| 30 | I want to give the horse some water , woman . |