Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb mod] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Dr Ottokar Proctor , head of the presidential think-tank , and widely believed to be the architect of the Big Bonus , was unavailable for comment , although he is scheduled to make an appearance at a film festival in Tampa , Florida , where he will give a lecture on the Sisyphean influence of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner on contemporary American culture . |
| 3 | ‘ Or he 'll give us the slip . ’ |
| 4 | This will necessitate a visit to the local newsagent for the papers and you will have to ask your new next door neighbour if she or he can give a note to the milkman for you or contact the local dairy yourself . |
| 5 | ‘ … 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In one case Julian discusses a manumission ‘ let Pamphilus be free , so that he may give account to my sons ’ ( Pamphilus liber esto , ita ut filiis meis rationem reddat ) . |
| 8 | The directions that he may give must appear to him necessary ( but not reasonably necessary ) to prevent such disorder , damage , disruption or intimidation , and may specifically include instructions not to enter a particular area . |
| 9 | So if you approach a sympathetic , but so far neutral , person and start telling him that he ought to give his support because of x , y and z policies he is likely to be bored and irritated . |
| 10 | I felt that she may have either directly or indirectly encouraged him to make this decision for several reasons : she was suffering ; she knew that he was n't going to leave the hospital and she accepted that ; and she did n't like seeing him talk himself into more suffering for him and for her ; and I do n't think there 's any question that in some sense she must have gotten this across to him that he ought to give up much more than anyone else . |
| 11 | I 'm a fool if I believe for one minute that he 'll give me a fair chance … |
| 12 | Friends considered him so depressed during this period that they were even beginning to think the unthinkable — that he might give up and turn his back on society and all its ills , and do what he would have really chosen to do with his life : be a country squire . |
| 13 | And we must remember our interest in Livesey is only that he might give us a lead to the young girl 's killer . ’ |
| 14 | Kurchatov visited Harwell and suggested that he might give a lecture on Soviet work into thermonuclear reactions in gas discharges . |
| 15 | The Divisional Court ordered that the applicant 's motion be allowed for a declaration that before asking questions relating to an offence with which a person under investigation had been charged the Director of the Serious Fraud Office had to inform that person that he was not obliged to answer such questions but that , if they were answered , what was said might only be used in evidence against that person where he was charged with knowingly or recklessly making a false or misleading statement or where the answer was inconsistent with any evidence that he might give at a later criminal trial . |
| 16 | Hope was trembling and afraid that he might give too much away . |
| 17 | So he 's got to be careful , and he 's worried that he might give himself away by some tiny flicker of expression . |
| 18 | The president promised Mr Markovic , whom he had backed on previous occasions , that he would give it . |
| 19 | Mr Kinnock has already warned that he would give Mr Ashdown a ‘ short , sharp ’ lesson in political poker . |
| 20 | He informed us in a haughty spirit that he would give my people thirty days to go back home , collect all their stock , and move to the reservation , saying , ‘ If you are not here in that time , I shall consider that you want to fight , and will send my soldiers to drive you on ’ . |
| 21 | But the day when I first beheld this city I was well pleased therewith , and coveted it that I might be its Lord ; and I besought the Lord our God that he would give it me . |
| 22 | Commenting on Prost 's alleged statement that he would give Mansell half his salary if the Englishman would stay at Williams , Mansell said : ‘ Prost is full of s*** , The guy just tells so many porky pies . ’ |
| 23 | He told me that he liked my playing and that he would give me a ring when I got back to Milwaukee , and about three to four months later we actually formed a band and went on tour . |
| 24 | Harold Wilson , the prime minister , had stated earlier in the day that he would give a television broadcast to the nation at 10.15 p.m. in the evening . |
| 25 | He welcomed Father Gallagher once again in the diocese , confident that he would give a stimulating and informative day . |
| 26 | He told me to be a good girl for Mum , and that he would give me some money to go to the pictures . |
| 27 | It was arranged that Bill would do the initial flight in early February and that he would give Dick Hansen his ground schooling for the aircraft . |
| 28 | Rutherford said that he would give him a 20-minute start , then drive back through the village and collect him . |
| 29 | But Mr Chirac promised that he would give his full support to the government , expressing criticism only in private to Mr Balladur . |
| 30 | He had waited for over ten minutes and decided that he would give his friend another five minutes before making off home . |