Example sentences of "he [vb mod] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'E loves Rachel an' 'e 'd give me the top brick off the chimney if I asked 'im , but 'e 's a worrier . |
| 2 | Well , it 's what you might call clerkin' work , writin' letters for business firms at 'ome , which do n't come too welcome to an active man like 'im , so 'e likes to get out as much as 'e can to give 'is gammy leg a walk . |
| 3 | A strange circle — not all of one tribe or one nation , but ever-present , as though rubbing up against him would give them some strength . |
| 4 | Is it Friend ? thought Chesarynth , sure that something about him would give himself away . |
| 5 | So if you approach a sympathetic , but so far neutral , person and start telling him that he ought to give his support because of x , y and z policies he is likely to be bored and irritated . |
| 6 | I felt that she may have either directly or indirectly encouraged him to make this decision for several reasons : she was suffering ; she knew that he was n't going to leave the hospital and she accepted that ; and she did n't like seeing him talk himself into more suffering for him and for her ; and I do n't think there 's any question that in some sense she must have gotten this across to him that he ought to give up much more than anyone else . |
| 7 | I said he ought to give most of it away . |
| 8 | ‘ … entreat for me Ephron the son of Zohar , that he may give me the cave of Machpelah , which he owns ; it is at the end of his field . |
| 9 | And he turned toward the East and knelt and said , Holy Mary Mother , and all Saints , pray to God for me , that he may give me strength to destroy all the Pagans , and to win enough from them to requite my friends therewith , and all those who follow and help me . |
| 10 | In one case Julian discusses a manumission ‘ let Pamphilus be free , so that he may give account to my sons ’ ( Pamphilus liber esto , ita ut filiis meis rationem reddat ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Hopefully he may give us the help we are looking for . ’ |
| 12 | Under section 245A , where copies of the annual accounts have been sent out , laid , or delivered to the Registrar and it appears to the Secretary of State that there is or may be a question whether they comply with the Act he may give notice to the directors indicating the respects in which it appears to him that the question may arise and specifying a period of not less than one month for the directors to give him explanations or prepare revised accounts . |
| 13 | The directions that he may give must appear to him necessary ( but not reasonably necessary ) to prevent such disorder , damage , disruption or intimidation , and may specifically include instructions not to enter a particular area . |
| 14 | He may give more weight to pattern than to vocabulary : how to say things rather than what to say . |
| 15 | He may give me till tea-time . |
| 16 | When he was approached to run British Aerospace the government insisted he should give up the directorship of W$G , but Pearce , displaying his usual resolve , would n't hear of it . |
| 17 | Two injury-ravaged sides understandably lacked precision and poise but Gabbiadini was always direct in his approach and it was appropriate that he should give Sunderland the lead six minutes before the interval . |
| 18 | ‘ Whoever will be my heir , let him be obliged to give , and I entrust to him that he should give , sums of the size which I shall dictate and give . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He should give him a run of five or six matches to show what he can do . |
| 20 | He should give you an excellent list of precautions to take , and explain the benefits of starting a Neighbourhood Watch Scheme in your road . |
| 21 | If he considers that it does , he should give a general warning to that team and , if the offence is repeated , he must order the offending player off the field . |
| 22 | Yet there were also incentives for Louis IX to come to terms : Joinville reports that Louis replied to his critics , who asked why he should give away ‘ so great a part of your land , that you and your ancestors have conquered , and which has been forfeited ’ , that he had given Henry , Aquitaine , Gascony and the three dioceses ‘ to create affection between my children and his , who are cousins-germain' . |
| 23 | I thought for a moment and came up with a suggestion that he should give some sort of honour , an OBE or the like , to the cricketer Basil D'Oliveira , who had been shabbily treated by the South African government . |
| 24 | The thought occurred to him that he should give them some orders , but he could n't think of any . |
| 25 | If he smokes , he should give up , and if he 's overweight , he should slim . |
| 26 | Stuart had fumbled nervously in his pockets , wondering how much he should give , just change , surely . |
| 27 | Oh well , at least he should give her something . |
| 28 | May I suggest that he apologises in a broadcast from No. 10 Downing street , which I understand he occupies temporarily , and that he should give some thought — |
| 29 | An agenda proposal by Yeltsin 's opponents that he should give a " report back " explaining his conduct was defeated in favour of Yeltsin 's giving the customary keynote report in his capacity as Chair of the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet . |
| 30 | The main concern of Bonar Law and Lloyd George was that he should give no support for an Asquith restoration . |