Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [conj] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll need come a good few times and give it three four six months . |
| 2 | ‘ He may decide to hold off for a few days and give steroids to develop the lungs , ’ Belinda suggested . |
| 3 | I wrote to him every few days and gave him the details of everything that happened and everyone I met . |
| 4 | You had to satisfy the Traffic Commissioners , that what you are proposing would , would answer the cause , would n't give rise to erm great hardships to the travelling public and erm oh you 're preparing a fare increase about a year before it actually came up to , in front of the Commissioners and then he would erm , perhaps make some alterations or give you a date when you could apply . |
| 5 | By the time you 've bought them some cigarettes and given them some money for the pub and said well if there er and the car has n't got any petrol so you pay for ten pounds worth of petrol . |
| 6 | It is the characteristic chemical products of such enzymes that give a cell its individual shape and behaviour . |
| 7 | The emphasis would be on promoting good health by such measures as giving people the right to a ‘ National Health Check-up ’ . |
| 8 | Do n't be tempted to justify these requests or to give reasons for them . |
| 9 | You could just work these movements as given and all would be well but it is always better to understand why you are working the method and what is happening . |
| 10 | President of the General Council and Register of Naturopaths , Jon Leigh , practices both these principles and gave a thought-provoking list of suggestions to help marathoners . |
| 11 | The accompanying text pages explore these questions and give definite answers as a basis for discussion . |
| 12 | He was older so I listened to him , so I 'd shoplift all these things and give them to him . ’ |
| 13 | Well I can I can remember when I was a child and kids had a lot of time to do hobbies and a favourite hobby was to make a a garden and I never made one , but a friend of mine was ooh forever making these things and giving them away as presents you got the lid of a biscuit tin or something of that sort and you I do n't know what they used for grass they used to model little ducks and things and he had a piece of mirror to make a pond have you ever seen this done ? |
| 14 | It was these conditions that gave rise to the revolutionary movement or Alexander 's reign . |
| 15 | Something similar and er they came up to the , the great Pacific engines that came on and they , two of them came down in front of the stage , two of them were just a little bit higher up , and on the stage itself , there were scenes done like the hall in the Grand Central Station , New York and er they were , it was either the Ink Spots or some of these dancers that gave a performance , and it was so well put on that you could n't help being impressed by |
| 16 | I feel that these difficulties have gone on too long for there to be a realistic prospect of change in time for these children and given their improvement whilst in foster care , where they are not brought up in their parents ' conflict , it is not in the children 's interests for them to go and live with the father and that they need to be placed in an environment with permanent substitute parents , who can meet the boys ' physical , emotional , educational and social needs . |
| 17 | Even for philosophers , one suspects , it is less the philosophy than these episodes that give meaning to their own lives . |
| 18 | We wanted to address these issues and give mothers their names … for they are always introduced as ‘ such and such 's mother ’ . |
| 19 | It would be wrong to pretend that in a booklet of this size , we can do any more than raise some of these issues and give an overview of the way in which the company tries to deal with them . |
| 20 | Mum could n't read anyway but she always seemed to know when Auntie Nellie wrote and Dad made it my job to hide these letters and give them to him when Mum was out of the way . |
| 21 | It is very difficult for candidates to cope with all these nuances and to give an accurate picture of themselves . |
| 22 | The expense of improving the standards of qualification and training of both categories of investigator was high , but these days newly recruited Inspectors ( Ops ) usually have a current qualification on modern aircraft and the cost is concerned merely with maintaining their currency on these types and giving them the opportunity to fly light aircraft regularly . |
| 23 | QRAM can exploit these capabilities and give you access to the unused RAM that sits between 640Kb and 1,024Kb . |
| 24 | The argument could far more plausibly be turned on its head : the ‘ latent function ’ of the operation of unofficial suspect categories may be to make the administration of ( in ) justice more efficient and ‘ rational ’ , which in turn institutionalizes these practices and gives them the status of ‘ due legal process ’ . |
| 25 | The company then planned to introduce new individual contracts for all journalists and to give a 4.5% pay rise to those who accepted and signed new contracts by 1 January 1990 . |
| 26 | The neutralisation technique has been validated by double blind randomised trials , including food trials showing its effectiveness in preventing symptoms.Studies that failed to show effects evaluated the provocation of symptoms by food extracts ( not part of the standard technique ) ; that cited by Kay was also faulty in many respects and gave a wrong definition of the end point . |
| 27 | Slowing down at all corners and giving way to pedestrians . |
| 28 | Many thanks are due to all the members of the old team who have worked so hard for many years and given up so much of their time to represent the Society . |
| 29 | There are many plants that give off scent during the day but which seem to take on fresh strength in the evenings . |
| 30 | From the committed runner to the occasional jogger , there 's a Mizuno running shoe to suit all abilities that gives everybody the benefit of Mizuno Transpower — a remarkable energy conversion system that absorbs damaging shock and produces extra forward movement . |