Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] would give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Buckley 's Grimsby Town have won five and drawn one of their last six to ease within sight of the famous names at the top — and nothing would give him greater satisfaction than to leave them behind at the end of the season . |
| 2 | Sparrowgrass will probably start favourite as his form is consistently good , but as you ask , very likely the best horse , the one with most potential for the future , is Mercer Lorrimore 's Voting Right , and I would give that one the edge . ’ |
| 3 | My contract said very clearly that I had to have complete control of the making of the film , so I asked Darryl Zanuck if he would please replace me and I would give him the necessary time to find someone else . |
| 4 | I begin to think that Mike Gatting may have lost it , but the Second Test is at Lord 's , his home ground and I would give him one more chance . |
| 5 | Yes , I think it 's totally clear that what we need is a short message , and it 's a white paper , and therefore it 's inviting a message , so what we really need is a short message to go with the A B C and the government act on the two S P's and I would give an undertaking at this point that it will go under the chief environmental health officers ' name . |
| 6 | However , winter would transform it into something perilous in the extreme , even with crampons and an axe , and I 'd give it a miss during that season unless you 're an experienced mountaineer . |
| 7 | Often I could only afford a small steak and kidney pie and I 'd give it to him , or a chop . |
| 8 | But what I 'd do is I 'd I 'd do it from hours something like eight until six and I 'd give them a cooked lunch all fresh food |
| 9 | But there again er it was the time we lived in and you had certain Well yards had their own way of trying to keep track of when a guy was in a toilet etcetera and sometimes you would have to hand in y your er your time ticket , to the toilet attendant , and you would give him this ticket and he would say right you are , you know , and mark down your number on a book and say to you , well you 've got seven minutes or something you know . |
| 10 | ‘ You know , a great solo could be in a shitty song and who would give a shit ? |
| 11 | Lady Kitty 's wardrobes were crammed with clothes , and she would give those for which she had no further use to someone with little money — in exchange for some of their coupons , of course . |
| 12 | ‘ It breaks my back , my neck — ’ And she would give a little laugh , unclasping a heavy bracelet : ‘ It breaks my wrist too . ’ |
| 13 | Madame would see Boy there , she 'd look at him and she 'd give a whole line straight to him ( Ca n't you see … |
| 14 | And she 'd give me that look , like at first , half wary , half defiant , as if she had a secret to defend from me . |
| 15 | She would go that afternoon to fetch water from the fountain , she liked doing that anyway , and nothing could come of it to hurt her , there were always plenty of others there , and she 'd give Tommaso a sign , so that he 'd come , come at night to find her , that was the way it was done , she 'd seen it , becks and smiles under half-dosed eyes as the water brimmed in the young women 's jars . |
| 16 | And they 'd come along cattle there just contented as could be and then they got their supper and we 'd give them a wee while of light still to eat their supper . |
| 17 | After some discussion , they felt that there was nothing else to be found on this site until the next ploughing and they would give it a miss until then . |
| 18 | ‘ And they would give us food , ’ said Libab . |
| 19 | Well , it began with just when I got me money each week , 'cos I had a job , a weekend job with me uncle and I 'd get me money and I 'd just go out and score , get a coupla bags or something and then me mates 'd come round here and say , ‘ Can I do a smoke in here ? ’ , y'know , and so they would and they 'd give me a smoke for coming in here and eventually it started getting , like , from weeks , from weekends to days , becoming every day , like . |
| 20 | Cameron passed it by , the man could stew in his choler for a while , and when the dark came on and his servants and womenfolk grued at every owl-call or salmon-splash from the river , his defiance would burn lower and he would give his name . |
| 21 | And when my grandfather came in he always had a pocketful of these tips , and he would give us all some sixpences and some threepennies . ’ |
| 22 | But you see , you , you see , you could , you could have your goods then you 'll be paying on the slip and he would give you a slip you see . |
| 23 | So someone would come and clean his car and he 'd give it to them , yet you would work your guts out for a fairly modest salary … |
| 24 | But then , Colt liked fun , fun on his terms , and he 'd give the bastards a run . |
| 25 | He used to have a wrap of his own and he 'd give it to me when he went out . |
| 26 | I 'd take a smack along there and he 'd give me a cinnamon cake . |
| 27 | , Mr , er and he 'd give us sums , arithmetic , tell us stories , er historical events or something like that . |
| 28 | And he 'd got a boy who did stutter and he always used to go to granddad before er he when he came to school , before lessons and he 'd give him this pebble and he 'd say , now you can put it in your pocket . |
| 29 | Want you in the office and he 'd give it all back again |
| 30 | You would n't be a real beginner and it would give you an interest when I 'm busy . ’ |