Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] give [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 She could have passed by without rumbling the Josephites , or just given them a light pasting and taken their food and fuel .
2 All you need to do is pop in to your local Radio Rentals shop … or just give us a quick call .
3 Bosses were warned yesterday that secretaries have the power to banish them to the back of aircraft or even give them a poor hire car .
4 They would rather ring for a cab for you , or even give you a lift home , than have to deal with any attack that could be made on you on your lonely way home .
5 We will keep all appointments on the day notified to you , or otherwise give you at least 24 hours ' notice of cancellation .
6 The oriental forests also contain small creatures that perhaps give us a glimpse of the kind of animals that , 70 million years ago , led to the evolution of the first placental mammals and so to humans .
7 And and I I would think I 'm just thinking of freebies that just giving them something , and yet if they 've actually watched something being made and then
8 So that just gives you some idea and it 's up to your parents if they want to .
9 Your Bristol & West Mortgage Advisor is the ‘ anchorman ’ ( or woman ) for the whole operation — and does a lot more than just give you a ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ when you ask for a mortgage .
10 He has come to terms with his fierce ambition and his temper , the demons that once gave him a fascination with the psychotherapy of Laing and Reich .
11 It was an expression that still gave him pleasure and he would have used it to describe his own limited grasp of the subject , but it would have been wasted on the sparrow-sized man across the big desk from him .
12 But it 's something that I think someone can only have a go at if they have a great deal of support and a chance to experiment in a way that still gives them the option erm not to change if they feel that they ca n't handle it any other way erm so I think there are a lot of difficulties associated with this kind of problem .
13 It 's something that still gives me nightmares . ’
14 He hit one of the great five irons , too , at the last hole , a shot that still gives him one of those lovely shivers of success whenever he thinks about it .
15 ( To avoid getting bogged down with routine reporting at the expense of his DIA mission , he had telexed Ms Starnes from Zurich to say he had been denied entry , a diplomatic untruth that still gives him a twinge when he thinks of it . )
16 That meant he did n't take her anger seriously , thought he could beat her hands down , and that surely gave her the advantage ?
17 This Uaru clearly shows the marking that sometimes gives it its common name — Triangle Cichlid .
18 There was n't much I could tell 'em except ter give 'em a description o' the Italian-lookin' bloke .
19 Only by constant bargaining can a president hope to bring order to the inherent chaos of the US political system and thereby give it direction and purpose .
20 ‘ I think it 's time we left , ’ she muttered , standing up and thereby giving him no opportunity to deliver another of his pointed snubs .
21 I was to keep them safe and eventually give them to anyone who survived .
22 Saint Simon describes how Louis XIV 's adored granddaughter-in-law , the Duchesse de Bourgogne , was standing in conversation with the King , while a maid lifted her skirt from behind and discreetly gave her an enema .
23 ‘ It took a lot of thinking about — living in your own home and happy there for fifty years and suddenly to give it away .
24 ‘ I guessed , ’ he replied , and suddenly gave her a lop-sided grin — and all at once Leith discovered she was feeling most unexpectedly lighthearted .
25 In any piece of fiction there must be room for the reader — room for him to jump at a suggestion , to insert himself into a story , to respond to hints and clues : to be told what is offered to him is to encourage him to read passively and so to give him less than he deserves .
26 But friends assured me there was more to this grand range of mountains than my experience had suggested , and so to give it a chance I went back to climb Cairn Gorm properly , giving the bridies as wide a body swerve as possible .
27 Hitherto , the Greeks had instinctively interpreted their experience through their myths and so given it " the stamp of the eternal " .
28 His family knew nothing of education and so gave him no support or encouragement , still less active aid .
29 This state of mind will transmit itself into the drawing and so give it life .
30 This state of mind will transmit itself into the drawing and so give it life .
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