Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [pron] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | If all that money we gave to Band Aid did n't do the trick , it must be because there are just too many of them . |
| 2 | W that bit we gave up after the First World War but we made er we did make some of these er patented things that they had in the Second World War . |
| 3 | Under the legislation , manufacturers can claim a credit of 25 per cent of the market value for each computer they give away to schools . |
| 4 | In that case you give me your form , keep hold of it |
| 5 | Höfner were wont to wax lyrical about the new ‘ Slendaneck ’ feature of this guitar which gave you ‘ the thinnest neck ever , with really fast playing action ’ . |
| 6 | But I mean they actually do work , er ten percent gross yield and erm if you asked me to explain how they get the ten percent , I 'd have to use some notes they gave to me cos it 's , cos it 's complicated , but they use derivatives , and they buy in er in the shares and options market , and erm the company I 'm thinking of actually own the shares , but you take options on them , and they take commission on the options , they also take dividends , er and by the time you 've read the , the , the spiel , it sounds a bit like you 've fitted all these petrol savers to your car and you 're driving to Nottingham , and the tank overflows , it 's that sort of |
| 7 | But I had to keep stopping to peer at the pages , so after a few attempts I gave up . |
| 8 | In their inception , these authorities were based on the fact that the payer and payee were not on an equal footing and it was this inequality which gave rise to the right to recovery . |
| 9 | Earlier in this chapter I gave some idea of the linguistic complexities of the Caribbean . |
| 10 | I 'll write more about testing the call to such work , but within a few months we gave up our travelling ministry and took a team of sixteen adults plus their children out of St Luke 's and began Cranham Community Church . |
| 11 | Looking back over some lectures I gave in the early 1980s , I note that the division between the schools which could raise money and those which could not was even then causing me concern . |
| 12 | Reading Unamuno , I found this passage which gave me comfort among all the mockery : ‘ The greatest height of heroism to which an individual , like a people , can attain is to know how to face ridicule . ’ |
| 13 | In this work we give full weight to the speaker/system distinction that has been introduced above , and hence to the general principle that speakers are ultimately responsible , not only for introducing and adopting linguistic changes , but also for maintaining diversity in language states . |
| 14 | It is this publication which gives them their force as a form of evaluation of schools , particularly as the intention of this part of the Act was to give parents information upon which to base their choice of school . |
| 15 | Already one firm has developed a 30 W source of this type which gives a light like a 100 W light bulb . |
| 16 | Is this aspirin you give me ? |
| 17 | These are just two of many aspects of this Directive which give serious cause for concern , and it is not just Britain , but also Germany , Holland and Belgium that have reservations . |
| 18 | More than any other Barbirolli recording of this period they give the listener the impression of sitting in Manchester 's Free Trade Hall at a live performance . |
| 19 | It was Eliot 's belief that if Christianity disappeared our civilization would disappear with it , and in his letters to friends during this period he gave the impression that this process was already far advanced . |
| 20 | After only a few days he gave up and did his best to ignore them even though they had the one thing above all he was beginning to want : freedom . |
| 21 | But first I must warn you that this evening I give you not a narrative . |
| 22 | In every chord there is some foreign element , some contradiction which gives an odd twist to the harmony . |
| 23 | Furthermore , this is one of the few studies which gives an account of the feelings after the task was completed . |
| 24 | On another occasion he gave chase to someone running down the platform but when he reached the platform end whoever it was or was n't had vanished . |
| 25 | That 's what I had against my discount that way you can you got a gift for this person you give to them plus erm |
| 26 | Roblin again bang on target with another kick which gave the visitors a 9-3 lead at half-time . |
| 27 | In response to this request he gave them the Lord 's Prayer , in which we pray first of all for God Himself , that all may know him and revere Him , that his mile may be extended over all , and that his will , so right and good and loving , may be done on earth , as it is by angels , prophets and saints in heaven . |
| 28 | This morning she gives priority to the fact that it is the first day of the winter term , and that she has a lecture to deliver and two tutorials to conduct . |
| 29 | Iago seems to be acting wholly for the others ' good , since , as he challenges us to deny , ‘ this advice I give is free and honest . |
| 30 | This week we give details of the LIDBA Cycle Day on June 14th and next week the preliminary plans for Liphook Bypass Celebration Day on July 19th are announced . |