Example sentences of "unless [pron] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would n't sell one unless you gave it to me , ’ was Ray 's reply … in the next consignment was a four-inch monstrosity with a cryptic note : ‘ This is your gift , ha ha ! ’ |
| 2 | The Geophagus will tolerate London tap , but the Crenicara filamentosa and the Rams are doomed unless you give them the right conditions . |
| 3 | All these agencies make sending out mailings much easier but they can be very expensive , and unless you give very precise and detailed instructions about which journalists in each category of the media should receive the release you may still be sending to media which can not use the story . |
| 4 | " Strictly speaking , you 're going to be dead very soon unless you give me the right instructions . " |
| 5 | ‘ Unless you give them paan , cigarettes and seven days ’ notice , they wo n't do a thing . ’ |
| 6 | Aye well we 've all spoken about it before and I mean yo When we were in hospital we spoke together about it and er obviously it 's it 's it 's something you that wo n't really be able to tell unless you give it try . |
| 7 | And the child may refuse to co-operate with you unless you give it something . |
| 8 | ‘ Suleiman will not agree to a divorce , ’ Fatima said , ‘ unless you give him money . |
| 9 | And , what , we could do anything we like to him , unless you give up . |
| 10 | Er in the U K we 've held our market position and it 's been a a pretty desperate market we were one of the few if not the only book seller who refused to er to yield better discount terms er , on the threat of er every , every book seller was every er publisher was threatened with erm not being stocked unless we gave bigger discounts . |
| 11 | THE more scientists write to The Times threatening to vote Labour unless we give them huge sums of money , the more many of us feel it is time to call a halt to science . |
| 12 | On an issue so important as that of the death penalty I feel that the House is entitled to expect a lead from the Government ; we fail in our duty unless we give the view of those responsible for maintaining law and security for the citizens . |
| 13 | We shall end by observing that some adjectives ( in fact most of those discussed in Sections 6.7 and 6.8 , but not former , would-be , so-called nor late unless we give it an altogether different lexical value ) can occur with more than one value , that is , either as separatives or as ordinary ascriptive adjectives . |
| 14 | did not get the peasants to support us unless we give them that . |
| 15 | Companies will be punished unless they give their employees financial incentives to commute by bus , car-pool , or by rapid-transit rail lines not yet built . |
| 16 | But do n't call the law unless they give me the black spot , or if you see the seaman with one leg — he 's worse than any of them . ’ |
| 17 | * So I 've been a bad boy at times but they reckon I ca n't walk out on a job if I 'm in the Jungle and Matt 's temperamental which means he does n't normally work unless they give him a hamper full of white powder but he seems to have kicked it and there are n't too many dealers swinging through the trees like Tarzan out here . |
| 18 | Not unless they give us some . |
| 19 | Nothing was worth doing unless it gave pleasure , he had argued in Ink . |
| 20 | The Aunts always used to say she was selfish because of this , but her argument was that as she never wanted anyone to do anything for her unless it gave them pleasure , she never did anything for anyone unless it gave her pleasure . |
| 21 | The Aunts always used to say she was selfish because of this , but her argument was that as she never wanted anyone to do anything for her unless it gave them pleasure , she never did anything for anyone unless it gave her pleasure . |
| 22 | This will not be the case , however , if the non-UK office deals only with customers outside the UK , or executes transactions only outside the UK for a customer in the UK unless it gives advice to the customer . |
| 23 | The prosecution alleged the teenager was driven off in a car and threatened with drowning in a lake unless he gave them information about the burglary . |