Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] could give " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wanted a sport where I could give my all , ’ he told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 2 | I could put it into Event , or I could give it to you for Time Out … |
| 3 | Well exactly , yes , she can give you a ring erm or I could give you a ring for that matter erm . |
| 4 | Robbie could n't tell what he was thinking , but her mind was only on the goal ahead , some private spot where their lovemaking could be renewed , where she could give herself up to him and all the promised delights his body offered hers . |
| 5 | CAUTION — make sure you get the ball and not the player , or you could give away a free kick ! |
| 6 | Or you could give your room an interesting old country look by adding a ‘ wainscot ’ of boarding to a free wall , or at least some moulding at dado level . |
| 7 | She could put him into the scale alongside Joseph and Tarquin Poulteney-Crosse whom she believed culpable of murder , or she could give him the benefit of the doubt . |
| 8 | He was happiest at the field meetings of natural history societies and the subsequent festivities , where he could give free rein to his talents as a ballad singer and after-dinner speaker . |
| 9 | And I can assure you that I did n't shine the torch on her longer than I needed to satisfy myself that she was beyond any help that I could give . ’ |
| 10 | I also needed to be knowledgeable about the procedures , likely outcomes and prognosis so that I could give full and accurate explanations to Mrs Allen . |
| 11 | I just wish that I could give more . |
| 12 | As the spend over the three years will be more than that — last year 's spend was £17 million and I expect this year 's to be £25 million , making a total of £42 million — I suppose that I could give my hon. Friend the assurance that he seeks , but even if our figures were so way out that I could be caught on that commitment , when I consider the matter next May — assuming that the burden still falls to me to do so — I would have to make the same calculation as I made this year . |
| 13 | The brochure also would have outlined a number of other aspects in in more detail than I could give you on the phone . |
| 14 | We played late on the first day and I went round in the morning spotting the pin positions , trying to get a feel for the course so I could give the right information to Nick . |
| 15 | Now she thought that she could give it up for three weeks in the Italian sun . |
| 16 | Fen opened the bedroom door and she waited tensely for him to close it behind him and be gone , so that she could give vent to the misery that threatened to swamp her . |
| 17 | Lionel had mentioned her only once : ‘ Florence , Flora rather — we had to be careful not to ask of her more than she could give — ’ and had left Lily to puzzle out the meaning . |
| 18 | ‘ I tried to go over the fiction I 'd done , pull out the subtext and put it in a form that you could give to an audience at a world 's fair at the end of the century . |
| 19 | so if you had a date in November that you could give me , time to get people together |
| 20 | Into Lucy 's keeping , so she could give it to him and with it , he could challenge the system that had tormented him and millions of the innocent . |
| 21 | After the usual social exchanges we got down to business explaining the range of counselling that we could give and the various reasons why we thought it was important to ‘ talk about it ’ . |
| 22 | there 's all sorts like , like recruiting , making contact with the schools , er , lobbying , er , there , there about ten or twelve different workshops now , almost on almost every aspects , so and that would be something that we could give , if , if these were n't . |
| 23 | You see Donny suggested at that last meeting that we had just small leaflets that we could give to all members . |
| 24 | From this it follows that we could give some account of what it might mean to ‘ change the context ’ in the sense in which Fillmore ( 1977 : 119 ) envisages this when he says ‘ I … find myself asking what the effect would have been if the context had been slightly different . ’ |
| 25 | As far as I could tell , the roof seemed to be consuming money faster than we could give it . |
| 26 | He was n't particularly happy with the idea , but kindly decided to let me try after an RSPCA inspector had seen the condition of the dog , and had judged how much she weighed , so we could give the correct dosage . |
| 27 | The task was " forced " in that the respondents were not allowed to answer " impossible to say " to the question about the speaker 's race , but had to opt for one of the three possibilities , although they could give this the lowest confidence rating . |
| 28 | Indeed , there is a greater likelihood that they could give the names of more researchers in the same field in another country than they could give the names of staff in other disciplines in the same building . |
| 29 | Innate within him was the ability to put committee members at their ease , so that they could give of their best , and he could abstract the maximum amount of information . |
| 30 | Indeed , there is a greater likelihood that they could give the names of more researchers in the same field in another country than they could give the names of staff in other disciplines in the same building . |