Example sentences of "[pron] may give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ These are enormously strong roots and the melding of them may give us an organisation far more formidable than either could be on their own . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I would have had no objection to telling them the position , in all honesty we could have done that and I may give them advance warning next year . ’ |
| 3 | I should add that there are also a great many flowers that seem to have rather negative meanings , such as the lovely little lawn daisy , which apparently means ‘ delay ’ , or ‘ return after a few days when I may give you an answer ’ — not necessarily the most suitable text to put on a bookmark . |
| 4 | The thing is , Bob , if I may give you some advice based on long and hard experience , not to start off by renting somewhere , if you can possibly avoid it . ’ |
| 5 | if I may give you a word of advice , you may think it 's rude , but when Mr is asking questions try not to turn down towards him , if you try and face across the jury , that 's what carries the voice if you 're looking at them , if you turn to your left , a bit of your head goes down a bit , it 's only natural , you 're not as used to courts as Mr is , er , he , he , your , it , your voice smothers , it 's not a question of shouting it 's just looking in the right direction , yes Mr go on |
| 6 | CANCER drug campaigner Janet Murray has had the first tablets which may give her a chance of a normal life . |
| 7 | ( Also included are Edith Sitwell and Eliza Cook , which may give us cause to ponder . ) |
| 8 | You may also be told that there is an alternative route via Dakar , some 500 kilometres away , which may give you a connecting flight to Praia , the capital on Santiago Island — provided , of course , that the plane turns up . |
| 9 | But there are some standard arrangements which may give you a few helpful ideas . |
| 10 | In those situations where the hole has been dug and the ferret and rabbit ( or rabbits ) have been located , you must be well drilled in the exact procedure to ensure that the rabbits are unable to take advantage of any opportunity you may give them to escape . |
| 11 | ‘ You may give me a kiss , dear Mary , since it is soon to be your birthday . ’ |
| 12 | No , she may give me her money and my legitimate heir , and that is all . |
| 13 | She may give me six inches in my height , but what she tells me , goes . ’ |
| 14 | Matron says she may give you a hand today — or , indeed , at any time when things are slack on the wards . ’ |
| 15 | When you visit your doctor , he or she may give you an prescription . |
| 16 | They hurt , sometimes excruciatingly , but on the deepest level of all , it is somehow ‘ all right ’ ; and out of the praise and gratitude and joy that spring from it when we can grasp it , I think that we may give ourselves permission for the more mundane , but wonderfully healing emotion of happiness . |
| 17 | However , they do not give doctors legal justification for a particular course of action but they may give them greater moral authority ’ . |
| 18 | To them you are just a very large creature who for some unknown reason feeds them , and for that , and that alone , they may give you a grudging sort of respect , if owls have any idea what respect is . |
| 19 | They may give you the creeps , but not Ray Gabriel . |
| 20 | It may give them the light as well as what |
| 21 | The provision sometimes inserted in a settlement for giving remuneration to a professional man who is one of the trustees is open to considerable objection since it may give him an interest in incurring expense , and will , in any case , tend to make the other trustees leave the management mainly in his hands . |
| 22 | Parents or relatives often make donations to their old public school or college as some repayment for what it has done for them , or in the hope that it may give their child a better chance of entry ! |
| 23 | Moreover , ’ he continued , ‘ perhaps it may give you some time to reflect on the Lady Maude . ’ |
| 24 | It may give us some answers . |
| 25 | More intimately , it may give us greater understanding . |
| 26 | ‘ … 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He may give me till tea-time . |
| 29 | ‘ Hopefully he may give us the help we are looking for . ’ |