Example sentences of "[verb] and [pron] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's found something she loves and it gives her strength . |
| 2 | Worked out less than , I do n't know and they give us all the posters and everything , so weekend I 'm gon na send away for another seventy |
| 3 | ‘ I knew I could win and I gave everything I could . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I knew I could win and I gave everything I could . ’ |
| 5 | What I hope to have shown , which is consistent with a certain tentativeness about what has been said , and with incompleteness , is that we do have a grasp of both dependent and independent conditionals , which grasp can be clarified and which gives to us an explicit understanding of the seven causal connections that were set out . |
| 6 | Instead of a telling-off , with time to put things right , TDC found itself under a much more strict court order with which it could not negotiate and which gave it little flexibility . |
| 7 | But Basil encouraged and even found some tiny portion of my painting which could be developed though he agreed that I might copy more easily than imagine and he gave me a mounted butterfly to draw . |
| 8 | Her lips twisted and she gave a croaking laugh . |
| 9 | And then they fall down and die and they give a signal er they scream and they pick something up . |
| 10 | We were getting more mileage out of an asset we already owned and it gave the business a wider base to cope with fluctuations in any part of it . |
| 11 | Her tears were easing and she gave a long gurgling sniff , reaching , it seemed , deep into her empty body . |
| 12 | Bill thought I 'd died on him the other night cos I was , you know , me breathing and everything , and then all of a sudden I must 've relaxed for a bit and not needed to breathe and he give me a shock he says God I thought you were dead . |
| 13 | But , given that there is government money available for training , the local community should have more say about what type of training is needed and who gives it . |
| 14 | But I think it may be more appropriate if I actually met with say the management committee as opposed to myself yes I 'm quite happy to do that to meet any individual or group who feel they have some concerns they wish to discuss and I give that I give that assurance this evening . |
| 15 | Then she said I could look and she gave me a piece of cloth with a few coins in it which my mother had saved for me — and the ring . |
| 16 | I visited a college there in , in that offshore island in the Indian Ocean and met the principal of that theological college and I said to him , I asked him how the college was going and he gave the same blandness to his answer as to my question and then he said of his theological college we are still training an aristocracy for the church and ensuring the inertia of the people of God . |
| 17 | She tried to grin back at him , but suddenly , unaccountably , her teeth were chattering and she gave an enormous , involuntary shudder . |
| 18 | And Preston sat there beside her , patting her ineffectually on the shoulder , saying , ‘ It 's all right , it 's all right , really , it 's all right , ’ until finally the sobbing stopped , too , and her eyes closed and she gave a great , shuddering sigh and slept . |
| 19 | His eyes opened and he gave me a weak smile . |
| 20 | In applications of this kind the authors argue that geographic information management in general and GIS in particular have an important role to play and they give a number of examples from research in progress to illustrate the current state of the art in this field . |
| 21 | She said I ca n't promise you , so I thought well I 'm sat six months now , so I phoned this ship thing yesterday on the telly called Just Start , no Start Again whatever it 's called and they gave me , they phoned me yesterday and they gave me a number of Cine Hill , Northampton which is the job advisory centre , adults education and then they phoned me yesterday and they told me who to get in touch with so I 've got an appointment Thursday at erm Northampton with the Social Services Department and they apparently map out all the places where you could go , say , say for instance that St Crispin 's is the mental home I can go there and be with the patients and then I can go to the Marina 's and be taught how to lift and how to bed bath and how to manipulate |
| 22 | And they says , Well a person who lived in your flat before you had a telly , you know and they gave me some excuse , you know that the the the person who lived in here before me had ripped them off and they says , How do we know that you 're not that person , you know things like that . |
| 23 | You ask how they know and they give you a vague description about the pelvis , etc. etc. , and you go away not altogether satisfied with the explanations . |
| 24 | In the sense that you 've got no control over your portfolio at all , and it 's just invested and they give you a statement . |
| 25 | She has got in ( and out of ) problems with drugs , alcohol and a quasi-religious cult : ’ I was brainwashed and I gave them an enormous amount of money , ’ she says with a shrug . |
| 26 | I had it , remember and I gave |
| 27 | The benefits of this method are that it can be easily understood and it gives total control over every element at all times . |
| 28 | ‘ They 're cheaper to run and they gave us more flexibility on positioning , ’ Wren adds . |
| 29 | Right , the problem is that I ca n't seem to get through on the telephone , I phoned and her secretary came back and said you 've to phone and she gave me a guy 's name like and I got a number for him so I phoned it , ah he works in our Edinburgh office I phoned the Edinburgh office . |
| 30 | When the Mirror 's expose was published , Marshall was arrested and we gave police the clearest visual proof of her crime . |