Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [conj] [vb mod] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , I did not linger long enough — as I was obliged to explain to his lordship shortly afterwards — to hear anything that would give a clue as to M. Dupont 's attitude to Mr Lewis 's remarks . |
| 2 | ‘ We do n't like anything that might give someone the idea to stick a poor fish in beer . |
| 3 | Do nothing that may give it a bad name . |
| 4 | Sometimes an observant parent will notice something that will give us a clue ; after a child recovers from one of those high fevers that ‘ lay it very low ’ for a short time it is sometimes seen that the child is more ‘ well ’ than before it became ‘ ill ’ , provided the illness has not been inappropriately treated or interfered with in some way . |
| 5 | " Somebody 's gone to a lot of trouble to remove anything that might give a clue to his identity , " Redpath said . |