Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pron] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | The College is celebrating its centenary this year and this will be an opportunity for us to give thanks to God for its tremendous work in preparing men and women for christian service at home and abroad . |
| 2 | These charities were originally administered by the Church or trustees appointed by the old vestry meetings , but with the Local Government Act of 1894 , they passed into the hands of the new parish councils , or such as still existed , for in 1893 , we find the local vicar complaining that most of the charities were dead and buried , and that Thomas Towers promised to give twenty shillings each Christmas Day , very kind of him no doubt , but unfortunately he left no provision for anybody to give it after he was dead , so that in his case he and benefaction are both dead and buried . |
| 3 | ‘ All it tells us is he must 've had a foreign accent for them to give him a name like that . |
| 4 | He was on his bike six kids jumped him and said give us your bike they , they took his bike off him gave him a hammering right on the nose , broke his nose . |
| 5 | It should be something useful for setting up home , if only a rather expensive bottle-opener , possibly with other small mementoes of his favourite bachelor activities or sport such as golf balls , presented inside something amusing and clearly feminine but not in bad taste , such as a pair of stockings , with a blue garter for him to give to his bride for the wedding so that she can wear ‘ something borrowed , something blue , . |
| 6 | This latter kind of language — language in use , for communication — is called discourse ; and the search for what gives discourse coherence is discourse analysis . |
| 7 | Police estimate that a large proportion of these crimes are a direct result of someone giving the criminal an open invitation — leaving a door unlocked or a window open . |
| 8 | Cauterets stands on either side of its Gave , with the older , more villagey quarter on the east bank and the newer , more upstanding parts on the west . |
| 9 | Laid mesh side up it gives a good base for carpets and tiles , and smooth side up it can be painted and stencilled to match design schemes . |
| 10 | Though he rightly acknowledges that large parts of the country were unaffected by this enclosure movement , his concentration on it gives us a somewhat unbalanced picture . |
| 11 | Well I was n't there long enough to us an appraisal to he give us , he still give us the targets |
| 12 | I had to go out so I gave your script to her to give to you . |
| 13 | She was heard to pause before going into the bathroom , the latch of which gave its distinctive click . |
| 14 | Moreover , recent work has shown that much of the heat energy in the seas of the North Atlantic ( every square kilometre of which gives off as much energy as a nuclear power station and hence influences our weather ) is absorbed from sunlight in the tropical Pacific and is carried by ocean currents through the Drake Passage and up into the Atlantic . |
| 15 | The test which best discriminated between the effects of left and right sided electro-convulsive therapy ( ECT ) after two treatments to each side was naming of objects after hearing a verbal description of them given by the examiner seven minutes after shock administration . |
| 16 | As she 'd expected , that smug look of his gave way to a scowl . |
| 17 | Take the case of She gave him a piece of her mind . |
| 18 | So , but , but basically the answer to your question is , if we were n't asked then there 's no requirement for us to give the information . |
| 19 | Something at the core of him gave in to her . |
| 20 | We discussed the cosmic background microwave irradiation and the support the discovery of it gave to the big bang theory . |
| 21 | In the absence of detailed requirements , the question of what gives a true and fair view is notoriously subjective . |
| 22 | There are good arguments for limiting a field of study to make it manageable ; but it is also true to say that the answer to the question of what gives discourse its unity may be impossible to give without considering the world at large : the context . |
| 23 | There is no question of my giving way — The Motion having been made after Ten o'clock and the debate having continued for half an hour , Mr. Speaker — adjourned the House without Question put , pursuant to the Standing Order . |
| 24 | First there is the question of who gives what to whom and how much . |
| 25 | Get that splendid girl of yours to give me a date or two and I 'll see if we can fix something up fairly promptly . ’ |
| 26 | But there is little likelihood of them giving home advantage to Garvey who have gone 32 games without defeat in the competition and need to win it for a record sixth time on the trot to reach Europe next year . |
| 27 | After all , I ca n't see a girl like you giving up her freedom to live in a squalid little room above a shop — and , believe me , without help Peter certainly ca n't afford anything else . ’ |
| 28 | The ice beneath him gave ; he braced himself , and slid slowly into the muddy lake up to his neck . |
| 29 | She slipped further and the lover-giant 's grip upon her gave . |
| 30 | The strength of its hold on her gave her goose-bumps . |