Example sentences of "could give " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took four of them to lift him on to a trolley and take him away for observation , with the police riding shotgun at his side , and then things gradually returned to normal — or as normal as they could given the extraordinary circumstances . |
| 2 | I could give them the key to Father 's safe and they 'd be so grateful they 'd have a pair of boots made specially for me . |
| 3 | At the start of my period of being harassed , I went down to my local law centre to see what help they could give me . |
| 4 | I wonder if you could give me any information on osteospermums . |
| 5 | But when Jem was born , there was no reason I could give him why not . |
| 6 | ‘ I could give you a call next Friday . |
| 7 | Well yes , I suppose I could give it a try but I do n't want to promise anything . |
| 8 | I could give you a blow-by-blow account of how England lost to Portugal the other night . |
| 9 | ‘ I decided it was time to say goodbye , but before I could give notice Sam Hall , the Benskin 's area manager , phoned me to say the company was going to turn the Harrow into a managed house . |
| 10 | But it was still comforting to have with us little Liena , our 19-year-old interpreter who was a very competent rock climber and all-round mountaineer , for she had climbed Elbrus in the past and could give assurance that we were on the right course . |
| 11 | Task lighting must be combined with general lighting — on its own , it could give you eyestrain . |
| 12 | And even before the War , though Hewlett in correspondence with Harold Monro and Newbolt could give and take hard knocks by way of semi-technical criticism , yet it is enveloped and emasculated by similarly anxious camaraderie . |
| 13 | He went on to say that there was nothing at all from the last decade for which he could give Mrs Thatcher credit . |
| 14 | If the new Transport Secretary can negotiate this kind of deal with the Treasury , he could give the phrase Parkinson 's Law an entirely new meaning . |
| 15 | The only reason that Henry Cecil , Spritsail 's trainer , could give for that poor Ascot run was that the ground there was loose , but the official going was good to firm at Ascot , the same as yesterday 's . |
| 16 | One thing which could give pagers a new lease of life is miniaturisation . |
| 17 | Some people seemed genuinely changed by the weekend : they learned that they really could give or receive love . |
| 18 | FEARS are mounting that increasingly sophisticated electronic calculators could give some pupils an unfair advantage in GCSE and Advanced level exams . |
| 19 | Mrs Thatcher should do either as the Mail demands and replace Mr Lawson with a Chancellor of whose policies she can wholeheartedly approve or , as Mr Heseltine urges , lift her veto against the only course which could give credibility to an exchange rate policy . |
| 20 | It raised the more general and important question whether the determination of a statutory tribunal with a limited jurisdiction could give rise to issue estoppel at all , or only to cause of action estoppel ; in other words , whether it could give rise to an estoppel for all purposes or only for the limited purpose for which the jurisdiction to make the determination was conferred . |
| 21 | It raised the more general and important question whether the determination of a statutory tribunal with a limited jurisdiction could give rise to issue estoppel at all , or only to cause of action estoppel ; in other words , whether it could give rise to an estoppel for all purposes or only for the limited purpose for which the jurisdiction to make the determination was conferred . |
| 22 | In such circumstances England 's goal difference could give them an advantage over , say , Denmark in Group One or The Netherlands in Group Four , both of whom complete their fixtures next month . |
| 23 | Before long West Germany 's Bundestag may confront the same problem : the federal elections late next year could give the Republicans enough votes to achieve representation — and not necessarily at the expense of Hans-Dietrich Genscher 's Free Democrats . |
| 24 | It shows how the Word could give birth to commentators ’ words , as could the castrated Origen , but gives no acceptable explanation of how it could produce Origen . |
| 25 | Now she thought that she could give it up for three weeks in the Italian sun . |
| 26 | ‘ If you came over I could give you all the assignments . ’ |
| 27 | I could n't go on living in a place where I was no use , ’ she spoke with the quietness and desperate authority of someone who had discovered they could give up no more ground and live . |
| 28 | We could give little presents to Jesus , like flowers or summat . |
| 29 | You could give a talk — perhaps — on atheism . ’ |
| 30 | Just £10 a month could give a child and family a chance to overcome desperate poverty . |