Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] give [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was the design I finally gave to Shawcraft as a construction drawing which ended up as the Dalek . |
| 2 | Now I , I often gives in , in schools , and I particularly show that slide because as you can see it goes up to the year twenty forty er now I shall be a hundred and four in the year twenty forty I wo n't ask you to calculate what age you will be in the year twenty forty it might be quite large erm |
| 3 | I frequently give into their hands my best guns and never found them in the slightest degree disposed to take advantage . |
| 4 | The main and very unsatisfying conclusion that I have reached may he expressed in the title I sometimes give to a lecture on the subject : " There 's something damn funny about the stratigraphical record " . |
| 5 | The answer is 0.9 recurring , but I do not expect to be awarded great sums of public money for this discovery , which I freely give to the world ; nor do I demand the overthrow of government and its takeover by a gang of lower-class hooligans . |
| 6 | How much simpler to say , ‘ I never give to charities . ’ |
| 7 | Finding that Mary Read was totally in control of all work out there , she swiftly gave in her notice . |
| 8 | She is sorely missed for the loyal support she always gave to Classes and Events and the Kent Team is not quite the same without her … but our loss is the West Country 's gain and we hope to meet up with Janet at the Easter Course in Bath . |
| 9 | She may also be helped to understand that if she is willing to try to spread the love she once gave to one person around to others who may be badly in need of it , she will move into an entirely different dimension emotionally : one that will provide her with new satisfactions and in which she will discover that the lovers of this world are not only those who enjoy a close and exclusive relationship . |
| 10 | I find that the refusal she then gave to the administration of blood was a refusal which took no account of the likely change in her circumstances . |
| 11 | The constructivist thesis , it is argued , is not relevant because mental representations have not been defined away and replaced by talk of actions : we still have to say how mental life as we know it to be , with the representational character that we naturally give to it , relates to neuronal life . |
| 12 | As well as giving presents , let us make sure that we also give of our time and attention to those who care about us and our thanks to those who have given to us . |
| 13 | Jonathan Culler 's brand of structuralism recasts the codes and conventions of structuralist poetics as a form of ‘ literary competence ’ that the reader has mastered or internalised before he or she approaches the text , and which can then be adduced as an explanation for the particular interpretation that s/he then gives of it . |
| 14 | Because of the reduction in the cases of cryptosporidiosis , we are able to withdraw the notice that we previously given in respect of boiling water . |
| 15 | If we had such a network , we would be able to withdraw the support which we currently give to private practitioners , but the Minister knows that we can not do so at this stage because there is no body of effective legal advice and opinion to benefit people . |
| 16 | The sight of all which struck them with consternation or a kind of horror that they incontinently gave over search and with the utmost hurry and dread , throwing earth and turf to fill up the pit they made , they departed , having neither of them the courage to enter or even inspect into the further circumstances of the place ’ . |
| 17 | It is a prevalent source of distress to teachers that they are unable to ‘ be themselves ’ in school , and this is the reason that they often give for leaving , or wanting to leave , the profession . |
| 18 | ‘ Personnel applied to Ardis for a reference — which they freely gave without mentioning anywhere that they had terminated your employment with them . |
| 19 | They seldom give to the relationship the commanding priority that women , particularly in the early stages of loving , feel to be appropriate . |
| 20 | Did he ever give to the poor ? |
| 21 | He gave me more more decisions against the workers than he ever gave for them . |
| 22 | Regrettably for the Palace , Alan found it difficult to adjust to 2nd and then 3rd Division football , where his undoubted skills were given short shrift by our opponents and , although he always gave of his best , he was equally always a heavily marked man . |
| 23 | It also gives to women a special status . |
| 24 | That was before my time , of course , but he obviously passed on some of his skills because during , or just after , very wet weather , Sam would go off somewhere and catch lovely brown trout , which he often gave to people who were ill ; and sometimes when he had a sheep to kill , he would send down the head which would make a really tasty and nourishing broth . |
| 25 | You know someone who you believe is a supporter and in conversation it 's mentioned that he regularly gives to charities . |
| 26 | The latter is fascinating , especially in the glimpses it occasionally gives of the general principles and priorities which informed MI5 's work , and the unease these aroused in some quarters . |
| 27 | He brought to his teaching humour and energy ; instead of the sparingly composed still life , he heaped up with exotic abundance the fruit and vegetables which he afterwards gave to the students to take home . |