Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] give [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of banning corporal punishment outright , however , it sought merely to give effect to the Court 's ruling . |
| 2 | ‘ The way I behaved certainly gave rise to a bit of drama , from time to time . |
| 3 | Adam turned his attention to Miranda 's other tender places and casually added , ‘ Perhaps you 'd better give Annabel a call , to reassure her that you 're keeping a watchful eye on the accounts . |
| 4 | If you 're ticklish on the feet , perhaps you 'd better give reflexology a miss , but if you love a little footsie , read on . |
| 5 | With a shrug , he turned away to give orders for the care of the greys , and the visitors ' mounts . |
| 6 | With that the old man turned away to give orders that the assembled villagers be shown the hospitality of the Hall . |
| 7 | The English courts had to consider the meaning of the phrase ‘ civil or commercial matter ’ as used in section 9(1) of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 , passed mainly to give effect to the Convention ; the precise question was whether the evidence sought was ‘ for the purposes of civil proceedings … before the requesting court ’ within section 1 of the Act , the italicised phrase being interpreted in section 9 to mean proceedings in any civil or commercial matter . |
| 8 | A FINANCIER who made a billion when the pound collapsed yesterday gave £32 million to charity . |
| 9 | The form of personal rule which Maclean established inevitably gave rise to claims that he was , if not actually involved in slave-trading and slave-holding , insufficiently energetic in combating them . |
| 10 | The exceptions were Michael Crawford as Nuri , the Prime Minister 's son , who , from his first entrance , worked hard to give pace to this ponderous piece ; Barbara Atkinson also amused as Millie the coffee-bar manageress , at times giving quite a credible imitation of Hylda Baker . ’ |
| 11 | From today members of the parleg public will be able to learn all about the lambing process and they 'll even be allowed to watch as some of the rare sheep kept there give birth . |
| 12 | It was these wars , unsurprisingly , which did most to give life to the ideal of unity . |
| 13 | The score was 288 when Smith departed for 57 , and if the last wickets did not pile on the pressure they did enough to give England a lead of exactly 200 . |
| 14 | In the spring of 1977 I did indeed give birth to a boy who later grew that shock of fair hair . |
| 15 | They appeared to be of one mind again when they appeared jointly to give evidence before the Commons ' Energy Committee on the greenhouse effect 's implications for energy policy . |
| 16 | The earlier deluge had eventually given way to more normal rain , and now finally that too had passed . |
| 17 | They looked together at the one about the woman who had said she would give anything for a child , of any kind , even a hedgehog , and had duly given birth to a monster , half-hedgehog , half-boy . |
| 18 | This is well-illustrated by the plentiful funerary monuments of hellenistic Boiotia , which retain features , such as the simple naming of the dead man without patronymic , which in other parts of the Greek world had long given way to more sophisticated formulae ; and Boiotia retained her local script till the age of Epaminondas in the fourth century . |
| 19 | The President of Cuba had apparently given permission for the Jews to be landed on the Isle of Pines , a former penal colony . |
| 20 | In Plutarch 's account Isis had already given birth to her son Horus , but Egyptian sources relate that she conceived the child from her husband 's dead body . |
| 21 | The likelihood of a redrawing of the 817 project had surely been on the horizon since Louis married Judith ( especially so if , as seems likely , she had already given birth to a daughter , Gisèle , in 821 ) . |
| 22 | But Descartes had already given answers to objections such as these . |
| 23 | ‘ My steward shall take charge of the matter for you — if you so wish , ’ Elizabeth Mowbray interposed , as if she had already given thought to it . |
| 24 | Bills had not been paid , despite the fact that the club had already given money to Brent Walker to pay them . |
| 25 | But it seems he had already given reward enough with his charming behaviour . |
| 26 | The European Commission had already given ground to the UK in November 1989 , by modifying its insistence that securities businesses should hold capital equivalent to 20 per cent of outstanding exposure , demanding instead a level of 8 per cent . |
| 27 | Adams had already given notice of intent overnight with his occasional left-arm spin , when Hansie Cronje ( imprudently cutting at his fourth ball ) offered a first Test wicket , and , suitably encouraged , the Jamaican picked up three more in an impressive 21-over spell of slight and turn which restricted the visitors ' lead to 83 . |
| 28 | They said the Iraqi leaders had already given details of P O Ws . |
| 29 | The planners had finally given permission for Coca-Cola to build a bottling plant on this fifty acre site . |
| 30 | I felt as if I had just given birth . |