Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [adv] give a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could n't give a damn about anybody — that was one of the things that was so attractive about him . |
| 2 | Er he could n't give a damn about er |
| 3 | He sounded as if he could n't give a damn either way . |
| 4 | but I saw him on the television last week , breakfast T V , not last week , week before , just before I got into work , and this woman on the television asking this stupid question , she said why do n't you put any opposition up in Parliament , and he hit the roof , but what the television did , they did n't switch off when he played bloody hell with 'em , excuse my French er President , but this is how it went , he could n't give a damn about you bloody lot , he kept the television on , it just showed his frustration . |
| 5 | They seem to have treated the lifters as brainlessly as they did a student with a night job in Bournemouth when he could n't give a sample despite an hour of trying on a roasting day in London . |
| 6 | But today he could n't give a fuck about the famine . |
| 7 | Well , he could n't give a hoot , either ! |
| 8 | He would n't give a contract and he wanted us to work like on the , make plenty of slate but he would n't you know , he was n't prepared , thee to pay . |
| 9 | Once he had Garry back with Berenice he would n't give a thought to the Adams twins and she would forget him and the time she had spent hunting Garry and her sister through the Northumberland countryside . |
| 10 | committee of actually emphasize , what Mr , Mr is actually saying is the ideas and the , the , the suggestions of this particular route will be incorporated in this report and should go before this committee and he can not give a preview of those ideas to anybody else |
| 11 | Foucault , as we have seen , is also criticized on the grounds that he can not give a cause for the shifts he describes , but this criticism itself begs the question insofar as it assumes a certain kind of history , which itself presupposes that there was a cause in the sense of a single uniform causality , rather than a disconnectedness in the scientific mode . |