Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [pron] give " in BNC.
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1 | What I hope to have shown , which is consistent with a certain tentativeness about what has been said , and with incompleteness , is that we do have a grasp of both dependent and independent conditionals , which grasp can be clarified and which gives to us an explicit understanding of the seven causal connections that were set out . |
2 | Her lips twisted and she gave a croaking laugh . |
3 | But , given that there is government money available for training , the local community should have more say about what type of training is needed and who gives it . |
4 | And Preston sat there beside her , patting her ineffectually on the shoulder , saying , ‘ It 's all right , it 's all right , really , it 's all right , ’ until finally the sobbing stopped , too , and her eyes closed and she gave a great , shuddering sigh and slept . |
5 | His eyes opened and he gave me a weak smile . |
6 | She said I ca n't promise you , so I thought well I 'm sat six months now , so I phoned this ship thing yesterday on the telly called Just Start , no Start Again whatever it 's called and they gave me , they phoned me yesterday and they gave me a number of Cine Hill , Northampton which is the job advisory centre , adults education and then they phoned me yesterday and they told me who to get in touch with so I 've got an appointment Thursday at erm Northampton with the Social Services Department and they apparently map out all the places where you could go , say , say for instance that St Crispin 's is the mental home I can go there and be with the patients and then I can go to the Marina 's and be taught how to lift and how to bed bath and how to manipulate |
7 | In the sense that you 've got no control over your portfolio at all , and it 's just invested and they give you a statement . |
8 | She has got in ( and out of ) problems with drugs , alcohol and a quasi-religious cult : ’ I was brainwashed and I gave them an enormous amount of money , ’ she says with a shrug . |
9 | The benefits of this method are that it can be easily understood and it gives total control over every element at all times . |
10 | When the Mirror 's expose was published , Marshall was arrested and we gave police the clearest visual proof of her crime . |
11 | It was a breezy afternoon at the Crystal Palace , if memory serves and our boys recruited the aid of the elements in a first half in which no quarter was asked and none given . ’ |
12 | He tried to speak from his wheelchair , but his voice was gone and he gave up . |
13 | By chance a list of dresses taken by Mme Moulton to Compiègne has survived and it gives a very good idea of what was expected to be worn . |
14 | However the main services are covered and it gives an idea of facilities and help available to teachers when undertaking research . |
15 | We also see on page one , three , four and this is something you also mentioned Mr that if you 've got certain costs they will be covered and you gave a number of examples , one of them you said , er , we were covered by insurance |
16 | As time went on this picture changed and I gave the cancer cells more cunning characteristics . |
17 | We are taking forward three major initiatives : the making a corporate commitment campaign , which is designed to secure board level commitment to energy efficiency ; best practice , which is the Department 's main programme of energy efficiency information transfer ; and the energy management assistance scheme , which I have mentioned and which gives grant aid to the energy efficiency projects of smaller businesses . |
18 | The sensation sharpened and she gave it more attention . |