Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun pl] [pron] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Friday afternoons I gave up all pretence and quite consciously ceded control . |
| 2 | For even though some attempt to give status to the ‘ community or home beat officer ’ has been made following Lord Scarman 's ( 1981 ) report on the Brixton riots which gave something of a ‘ slap on the wrist ’ to the service , the deference accorded to specialist posting or to detective work remains untouched . |
| 3 | Compaq Computer Corp took the lead in the European portable personal computer market in the first quarter of 1993 according to Dataquest figures which give Compaq 22% by value and 17.5% by volume , and the manufacturer says that shipments in the period were up 89% on the first quarter of 1992 , growing four times the rate of the market , which expanded 21% — and those figures reveal the reason that Dell Computer Corp has stumbled badly in laptops and notebooks : buyers are going for the higher cost 80486-based machines that abound in Compaq 's line , while Dell 's product emphasises low-price 80386SX-based machines . |
| 4 | That form bears the closest inspection and as the six-year-old has settled into his new surroundings at the Marriott Stables I give him the edge over Newton Point , whose cause will not have been helped by the rain . |
| 5 | he said and I got on very well with them , have a chat and I used to help them when they came in they were West Indians which gave everybody a bit of a shock when running a local Spa |
| 6 | Just inside the front porch , a handwritten book is prefaced with the words ‘ This book has been compiled that something , more than their mere names , may be known of the Lavenham men who gave their lives for their country in the Great War . ’ |
| 7 | I wish I could forget two London concerts he gave shortly before he died , but I prefer to remember him through performances as brilliant , powerful and exciting as we have on this set . ( ) |
| 8 | He offered an as yo as you read it there in the opening of chapter two , he offered her drink , at meal times she was to eat the food provided for Boaz servants he gave to her the extra portion of parched corn and also he provided extra gleaning for her . |