Example sentences of "man give [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Yes because all all Every every man give their wife up .
2 Jean , we 'll go down to where 's the fifty P shop or something and buy some of those do , er cornflakes ' plates or something , say they 're gon na fill those other ones up that the man give us a mere seven , eight ones , only leaves us four ordinary , you see I know for a fact that Sally say he was caught
3 The Pharisees had asked why Moses commanded that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce .
4 ‘ Stapleton told me that he could not allow any other man to give me the money for my divorce , ’ Mrs Lyons said .
5 Apart from the very great difficulty of establishing how a couple manage their finances ( in effect one would have to take their word for it ) and the strong incentive they would have to arrange their affairs so as to safeguard the woman 's claim to benefit , the fact that she is receiving benefit may itself make it unnecessary for the man to give her more than is required for his own keep .
6 But it is an agreement which is " restrictive of trade " in this sense , that it requires a man to give his services and wares to one person only for a long term of years to the exclusion of all others .
7 Tonight she needed a long soft loving , and he was the man to give it to her .
8 ‘ Your husband must be a very rich man to give you such a ring , ’ he said , turning it between his thumb and forefinger .
9 After two months she loosened her grasp on the subject like a drowning man giving himself up to the sea .
10 They had some good meals together , and when John left , the man gave him an inscribed copy of the lithograph being used as poster for his exhibition .
11 Then the bruiser produced a letter , the bearded man gave him a bit of a stony look , but took it and put it in his wallet .
12 A four-hour siege has ended peacefully after an armed man gave himself up to police .
13 The big man gave me an approving nod , then gestured at the suitcases .
14 ‘ I helped Jack Wards the horse-slaughterer on that Sunday : the old man gave me a quid , a gold sovereign at that .
15 ‘ I have the map that the old man gave me today , ’ said Giles .
16 ‘ Before he was taken away , this man gave my father something he 'd stolen during the war .
17 Pa bought it at Faversham market where the man gave it away for ten pounds .
18 ‘ The man gave it to my husband , who did n't ask for names , he was just so pleased to see it . ’
19 ‘ That man gives me the sodding creeps , ’ Sam said as we disembarked .
20 The first time the music stops every man gives his right shoe to his partner .
21 More than 40 per cent of men give their cars a once-a-fortnight wash , compared to 22 per cent of women .
22 A spokesman for the British UN forces in Vitez said the men gave themselves up into their protection after making their way from Travnik , where they had been held .
23 A priest was then brought in to mediate and the men gave themselves up .
24 But the siege ended peacefully after two unarmed men gave themselves up .
25 Zimbabwe 's Chimbima gets an unwelcome leg-up from a Namibian tackler as Andy Ferreira 's men gave their Southern African rivals a fright in a hard-fought quarter-final encounter , leading 10–0 at half-time before eventually succumbing 16–10 .
26 In their 1958 diet ( which did not yet include so many top feature films or so much news ) , men gave their highest preferences to sport , plays , news , travel , variety , documentaries , westerns and current affairs , and their lowest to serious music , religion and science .
27 Some of the men gave him curious looks because of the blood that had sheeted his right side .
28 The support of his brother 's men gave him a nexus of servants throughout the country , the value of which can be seen in his measures against Sir Edward Woodville .
29 The men gave him a small piece of paper .
30 The support of his brother 's men gave him a nexus of servants throughout the country , the value of which can be seen in his measures against Sir Edward Woodville .
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