Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [modal v] give " in BNC.

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1 I crammed my mouth with for fear I might give utterance to my anger .
2 I mean I 'll give one of these to each of my form teachers so they know , they 're gon na write in bits and pieces whatever they want to know .
3 I 'm , I 'm not quite sure , I mean I 'd give an
4 I mean I can give you a little example erm I was once trying to add up a series of figures in the middle of an admissions exercise , and one of the other one of the men said to me ‘ oh , come on , you 're far too pretty to do mental arithmetic ’ and I completely lost my train of thought , I got rather confused .
5 I mean I can give it to you to take it in tomorrow morning
6 ‘ I expect I 'll give it a miss , ’ said Hilary .
7 Erm the the railway track , erm once it was extended through to and I say I 'll give you the details on that in a minute , erm went over the er Road , and then the track that was nearest to er the town , was curved in and joined that other line erm and er went off to .
8 ‘ I 'll take her to Elinor 's night nurse immediately — I expect she 'll give Annabel something to calm her down .
9 ‘ As I have said repeatedly I believe that in a one-off Test you must give the visiting side a 50–50 chance , even us after our isolation .
10 If you had two axes I expect they 'd give in right away . ’
11 So he say they 'll give it to you back so that 's what they done they give me me money back , cos they 'd already give him back his , you see .
12 Labour say they 'll give local people the right to reject such schemes in future , but admit the Yorkley development may have already gone too far to stop .
13 Now the company needs an additional £1 million , which its backers the British Technology Group and Prutec , the venture capital fund set up by the Prudential Assurance company , say they will give — but only at the expense of an ambitious programme of research .
14 ‘ I hope I can give Gavin some help from my long experience of captaincy if he needs it , ’ he said .
15 ‘ I hope ye 'll give it plenty of thought . ’
16 I hope you 'll give us the opportunity of getting to know you better , on some happier occasion . ’
17 We 'll be seeing the E F T A T colleagues on Thursday , I hope you 'll give them a very very warm welcome .
18 And I hope you 'll give my offer serious consideration . ’
19 Now it 's not going to be easy for the girl , so I hope you will give her all the support you can .
20 Hope we can give you an opportunity .
21 We hope we will give a voice to the authors of the '90s . ’
22 When they lock the man up with Jim and John and Henry and Mary and Dolores and Grace — I hope they will give him access to books , with paper enough for him to go on making translations for us from the classics such as we have never seen except at his hands in our language .
23 I hope he 'll give the nod to the ones I 've suggested to you .
24 ‘ Knowing does n't make it any easier for me , but I hope he can give her a reason for living .
25 ‘ I hope it might give a ten year old kid a little inspiration , a little boost and when it comes out of him , I 'm happy .
26 You may want emotional support at any stage of HIV infection , and it will be important for you to find someone you trust who will give the support you need .
27 So that 's , that 's , I mean you can give a very precise mathematical definitions of what we 're talking about .
28 Look I 'll give that to Joan and Joan can give it to you , watch it , you do n't steel , no , no , you do n't take things , you wait till it 's given to you , no I 'm watching you do n't you dare beg at me , do n't you dare , do n't you dare , wait for Joan to give it to you
29 ‘ Nothing , save I 'd give him a chance .
30 If you like I 'll give you the addresses of a few girlfriends .
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