Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are you planning to avenge his death ? ’ he enquired , neither his voice or face giving anything away . |
| 2 | And , if you do n't accept that fact well then I suggest you either fuck off and read Althusser or begin giving your paper away free instead of charging horrible , nasty capitalist money for it . |
| 3 | Now , many people as they retrieved their fingers from the handshake were likely to tell you that their husband had just fathered an illegitimate child and ask your advice on how to proceed , or offer to give you the telephone number of their analyst/acupuncturist/homeopath/hypnotist who had been so helpful over their drink problem . |
| 4 | One can agree that another has or should have a right , that is , believe that he has or should have it , or agree to give him a right . |
| 5 | If Liu Chang had lied to him , or had given him a signal which would tip Herrick off … |
| 6 | This is the place to visit if you are planning a new garden or trying to give your modern garden the old fashioned look . |
| 7 | It is even more useful if people have produced verbal statements without explanation , or have given you a formula but missed the underlying structure . |
| 8 | Her great good fortune has been an electoral system that has given her power on a minority vote . |
| 9 | It is common for students to return to a part that has given them many ideas , and to rework a passage fruitfully . |
| 10 | They are now mothers with the responsibility for a child , and some of them would maintain that it is their baby that has given them the determination to do something more with their lives , however hard this may be . |
| 11 | With a long journey ahead of me every morning and evening , I do n't hang about , and this is the first petrol-engined car I 've used that has given me over 45mpg on a run . |
| 12 | This last possibility is one that has given me some concern over these months , and is something about which I still feel undecided . |
| 13 | ‘ Wickedly wasteful , I know , but I smashed it , and set up a new one and I have painted upon that new one the first thing that has given me real pleasure for years , oh , years and years . |
| 14 | ‘ I want to put something back into the game that has given me a good life . ’ |
| 15 | The matter that has given me most cause for admiration is the way in which he has conducted himself while the horrible events have gone on and been reported in the press . |
| 16 | Never , ever breed from a mare that has given you any cause to fear her in the stable . |
| 17 | A country that has given us countless cheeses , truffles , classic dishes such as moules marinières and cassoulet , champagne and , for many years , some of the world 's finest wines , requires several tomes to do it justice . |
| 18 | He was by no means unusual for his place and time : there were not a few London families in the mid-19th century who were busy accumulating all the paraphernalia that seemed to give them a gilt-edged claim to middle-class respectability — the portraits , the studio photographs , a family bible , ornate gravestones , even the odd crest and Latin motto . |
| 19 | ‘ I think he 's angry that having given me the freedom to think for myself , I 've not followed him all down the line . ’ |
| 20 | We are now being told by this arrogant and incompetent lot that having given us record unemployment , bankruptcies , house repossession , liquidations , factory closures etc , that they are the only ones fit to govern when surely that record should make them hang their heads in shame . |
| 21 | ‘ The place that did give him a job was the Irish Catholic paper The Standard , which had a very funny editor who just liked to drink most of the day and was amused by Patrick and hired him as film critic . |
| 22 | That means give me the packet . |
| 23 | Here , through the space of a breath or two , she could live for a moment in the rapturous evening when she and Lal had dressed for the Hunt Ball : the evening that had given her Andrew . |
| 24 | He had n't said anything that had given her any indication that he actually cared for her . |
| 25 | Lloyd George discovered in 1919 , as Law had done in 1914 , that a Unionist party that had given its total commitment to a cause would not be fobbed off with a compromise . |
| 26 | It had been Mme Guérigny 's and Montaine 's intimacy with the creatures of the forest that had given them the idea of hiding their deserter in the cave . |
| 27 | He betrayed no feelings to anyone in the country that had given him asylum . |
| 28 | It was his battalion 's heroic defence of their positions on the Basra to Baghdad road , when the rats from Iran had swarmed in their thousands from the marshlands , that had given him his present renown . |
| 29 | Spain was still deeply divided by the war and the choice of its commemorative dates ( such as " Victory Day " , or 18 July ) for the announcement of important political decisions was a tactic frequently used by Franco , reminding people that it was the outcome of the war that had given him the power to alter the country 's course as he thought fit . |
| 30 | The one Masklin had found in the Store , the one that had given him the idea for driving the Truck . |