Example sentences of "and give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do hereby adopt , enact , and give to ourselves this Constitution . |
| 2 | When I 've found out when she can come and give me a hand , I 'll give you a ring . ’ |
| 3 | Inside was a lighted wick ; as the metal dish warmed up , the nicotine began to sizzle and give off fumes lethal to red spider mite and aphids . |
| 4 | Mr Honecker evidently felt that things were going so well he could afford to relax and give his people what they wanted most : more freedom to travel to the West . |
| 5 | His dedication to the subject was complete and he continued to write and give high quality papers at various conferences . |
| 6 | POWELL : Ah , ah , I , I am saying in addition that that either meant that the thing was going to be vetoed anyhow by the Falkland Islanders , and that therefore even if Britain wanted to get rid of , of sovereignty , she was n't going to get rid of it in terms of her own statement ; or that the Falkland Islanders were going to be put under so much pressure , ah — we need n't go into the details of what is meant in those connections , by pressure ; I 'm sure the Foreign Office will supply the details if requested — ah , would be put under so much pressure that eventually they would collapse and give way . |
| 7 | Finally he got so used to me calling that he asked me to come down and give them a hand fixing it up . |
| 8 | Explain to him how you feel and chat to his parents , who may rally round and give you the support he refuses to give you . |
| 9 | This had some value , leading old ladies to get up and give me their seat on public transport . |
| 10 | All the more surprising then that Jacob should at once comply and give his name , but that is what he does . |
| 11 | This is ‘ practical ’ in the sense that the prosecution need not rely on members of the public to come forward and give evidence , which there is often a reluctance to do . |
| 12 | Do n't you love your grandmother enough to come downstairs and give her a little goodbye kiss ? ’ |
| 13 | We discovered that you now need £2 to get in and give a week 's notice for 300 pots . |
| 14 | These parties of mine have become something of an institution , and I am expecting a large number of people to come in and give their comments on the results in various constituencies . |
| 15 | Having done my first sound broadcast in the Forties and made my first television appearance in 1952 , I can remember when Lord Reith 's belief that broadcasting 's prime function was to inform , to entertain and give all sides a chance to state their case , still reigned . |
| 16 | In this triple partnership the universities could perceive themselves as occupying the middle ground between the LEAs as statutory providers and the voluntary bodies which traditionally existed to articulate and give shape to the aspirations and needs of individuals , groups and communities for liberal adult education . |
| 17 | The organ will play and I 'm going to ask the people to come forward and give their offerings . |
| 18 | Show us what you want us to do and give us the strength to submit our will to yours . |
| 19 | Gradually , it dawned on me that this was an organisation which would allow me to take and give . |
| 20 | Books from Boots Library had small labels in them which , if a reader wanted to buy it when it had finished its circulation life , he could fill in and give to the librarian when he returned it . |
| 21 | Whatever the merits of the arguments against Mr Soley 's proposal for a Select Committee in place of the Commissioner , they are much less convincing when applied to the more modest proposal put forward at the time by the SDP that there could be a Select Committee confining itself to the Commissioner 's report ‘ so that in turn it would report and give some reality to parliamentary accountability ’ . |
| 22 | Another argument I must meet is that while it is one thing to tolerate behaviour and remove criminal sanctions , in this case concerning homosexual activities , it is quite another thing to facilitate and give recognition to unions built on such activities . |
| 23 | England 's a fascinating and beautiful country — so why not take off and give yourself a break ? |
| 24 | Whereas in the early church believers were discipled through the teaching and corporate life of the Christian community , the third and fourth centuries saw many of the devout withdrawing to the Egyptian and Syrian deserts to pray and give themselves to spiritual warfare . |
| 25 | We 're going to make use of this moonless period , but we 'll try and give you a practice run over the ladder before the big night . |
| 26 | One could go further and give more weight to differences with lower sampling variability , but that takes us into confirmatory statistics and beyond the scope of this book . |
| 27 | The Greek word eucharisto means to rejoice and give thanks , so the Eucharist or communion is hardly a time to be sad . |
| 28 | All I can do , Father Poole thought despairingly , is to try and give him the spiritual strength to resist such a temptation . |
| 29 | ‘ Whoever will be my heir , let him be obliged to give , and I entrust to him that he should give , sums of the size which I shall dictate and give . ’ |
| 30 | The two , sometimes three , hours spent in the College quadrangle when , we are told , the Professor would courteously listen and give an intelligible answer to every question , and when the instruction he communicated was stamped on the memory by the good temper and joke and repartee with which it was accompanied , these were periods which an old student liked to call to memory , for they were hours pleasantly and usefully passed . |