Example sentences of "[not/n't] give [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local ombudsman found Lancashire SSD had not given her the support and counselling she needed . |
| 2 | I 've been using RapidCad for a month or so and It 's not given me the slightest problem . |
| 3 | No Alan 's not given me the go ahead really to , to do . |
| 4 | He had not provided water to wash the feet and had not given him the traditional greeting of a kiss ( Luke 7:44–45 ) . |
| 5 | We must also recognise that we have not given them the support and management guidance on practical recruitment that they , as volunteers , need . |
| 6 | If the police had not given us the benefit of the doubt , I should have been more than a little proud to go to jail in his company , together with the Cup . |
| 7 | It was clear that Holmes ' cleverness with the telegram had not given us the proof we needed . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't you know God has not given you the spirit of fear but of love and a sound mind ? ’ |
| 9 | I for one will not give her the satisfaction of even seeming to care . |
| 10 | Nevertheless she said , ‘ Why not give her the benefit of the doubt ? |
| 11 | But he did not give her the opportunity . |
| 12 | Admittedly the referee was a foolish fellow who kept re-penalising Swansea for failing to retreat 10 yards when he did not give them the remotest chance to do so . |
| 13 | She would not give them the satisfaction of seeing her beg . |
| 14 | In these stories the young characters learn that their greater physical power does not give them the right to treat the little people as playthings or inferiors . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ The supporters know I have always spoken to them in honesty and when I could not give them the truth I have kept my mouth shut . |
| 16 | He explained that children came to Cedars when their own school could not give them the individual help with basic skills which they needed . |
| 17 | You can not , you can not give them the the national curriculum book ! |
| 18 | The council tax will treat widows unfairly in the same way , because it does not give them the discount that they deserve . |
| 19 | When Michel Rocard was replaced by Edith Cresson on 15 May 1991 , his official letter of resignation made it clear that President Mitterrand had asked him to resign , even though the constitution does not give him the right ( the President is responsible for ‘ nominating ’ the Prime Minister and for approving the Cabinet , but not for dismissing him ) . |
| 20 | Although on friendly terms with Matthew Boulton before going to Birmingham , he would not give him the details of a cannon ‘ that the Americans have constructed on a new principle ’ . |
| 21 | As fighting on board goes first one way and then the other , the captain strikes Thomas Fox to death with a belaying pin in an access of rage because the boy , genuinely unaware of the seamen 's plotting and almost insensible after hours at the masthead in icy weather , does not give him the names of the conspirators . |
| 22 | An order for specific performance is one which requires the seller actually to deliver the goods and does not give him the option of paying damages instead . |
| 23 | She would not give him the satisfaction . |
| 24 | She would not give him the satisfaction . |
| 25 | Perry offers to buy me a drink , but I will not give him the satisfaction . |
| 26 | I told the hon. Gentleman that I could not give him the information for which he asked until October , when the 1991 population figures would become available . |
| 27 | In any case , she thought , I 'll not give him the opportunity to try . |
| 28 | If he can do what he 's done with Everton 's rejects , why not give him the whole lot ? |
| 29 | I have a Roland U220 which would give me the sounds I want although I know it would not give me the great note-sequence loops which McLaughlin uses so beautifully . |
| 30 | And since she shared Humber 's and my attitude to our job , she did not give me the kind of pep-talk Aline would have come up with in these circumstances . |