Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [pers pn] [vb mod] give " in BNC.

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1 Shabby streets scattered with litter , full of houses where they 'd give you a bed and a bowl of cereal for a fiver , no questions asked .
2 The large proportion of the impressions made to what they see , how they visualize you , so if you look a mess you 're backing on the wrong foot , you give , you 're getting off to a bad start straight away and be aware of hidden signals that you 'll give your emanating .
3 You get scratching those heads and I 'll give you the answer in three minutes from now .
4 We used to get help from the Co-ops because they used to give us lists of new members and we used to be able to canvass those .
5 The UK 's Inspectorate of Pollution ( HMIP ) has insisted on additional environmental safeguards before it will give approval to a controversial plan to burn orimulsion at two power stations in Wales and Lancashire .
6 An agenda proposal by Yeltsin 's opponents that he should give a " report back " explaining his conduct was defeated in favour of Yeltsin 's giving the customary keynote report in his capacity as Chair of the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet .
7 The directions that he may give must appear to him necessary ( but not reasonably necessary ) to prevent such disorder , damage , disruption or intimidation , and may specifically include instructions not to enter a particular area .
8 Looking back on that then , you must have lost a great number of colleagues and workmates that it must give you sort of mixed feelings looking back on it ?
9 Madam , I 'm gon na ask you to say in those circumstances that we should give him the maximum discharge .
10 Do you remember what your mum and dad used to say to you all those years ago because , those old adages that they used to give you as kids , certainly rings true .
11 He came to me and said , ‘ I have talked with my directors and they will give you from now on DM 250,000 a year . ’
12 Defending barrister Thomas Teague told Mr Jones yesterday : ‘ You used to steal things from your foster parents and you used to give them to other children at school .
13 Currently in Britain , all donors in clinics whether NHS or private , have to be tested for HIV antibodies before they can give sperm .
14 Try him with that and vegetables and I 'll give you some powder to mix in his food .
15 in all honesty ans answer what he said , you more or less made a statement and said yes I am er but I , I know all about the products and I 'll give you best advice .
16 One of the most important messages that we must give to everyone in our country is that we have in place proper , fair and effective policies to deal with the unprecedented flow of asylum seekers .
17 Probably , during the war we did quite well , what with the black Americans because they were stationed at the towers and they used to give us kids chocolates and
18 Police say it 's possible the man is responsible for two sex attacks and he must give himself up .
19 Whatever publishers ' position on the question of ‘ partner or competitor ’ , Richard Heath , of Heath Educational Book Supplies , stressed that ‘ booksellers are not asking for favouritism , we simple need a level playing field ’ , and , he warned , ‘ Publishers like Heinemann Educational , who attempt to gain market share for key national curriculum titles by offering schools 20 , 25 , 33 or even 50% discount for buying direct , can not then expect the same support from booksellers as we will give to publishers who show commitment to booksellers . ’
20 I wish to explore those proposals , lay bare the dangers which lurk beneath them and identify the threat not only to parliamentary representation from Scotland in this House but to the economic well-being of Scotland if the Labour party were ever in a position to exercise in Scotland the kind of powers that it would give to such an assembly .
21 It stand out like a sore thumb sometimes when I 'm with them , I find people with handicapped children are real people , are people who are people with their children being , talking to them , instead of things that they can give them , you know .
22 To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will give details of the programme of aid and assistance for the former Soviet Union .
23 But the people who built them — the thirty or forty people possibly at the most in Oxford who built those houses — it would solve their problems and it would give them a completely new slant on life to have built their own houses .
24 Because you 're sitting down with your partners and we 'll give actually literature which your managers will give you .
25 I have a Rule of Life ( No. 74 , actually ) which says that you can work your way out of most situations if you can give yourself enough thinking time .
26 Members of the Suffolk Accident Rescue Service , staff voluntarily by GPs , are usually the first doctors to arrive at the scene of car accidents where they can give specialist emergency treatment , additional to that provided by ambulance staff .
27 You see Donny suggested at that last meeting that we had just small leaflets that we could give to all members .
28 But although Cuvier won immense prestige for his work as a comparative anatomist , he was unable to convince many naturalists that they should give up all hope of being able to predict the overall pattern of natural relationships and hence the ‘ missing ’ species still waiting to be discovered .
29 ‘ His age is not a problem because I 've never been afraid to take a gamble on players and he could give us another option . ’
30 If you pay us an extra premium before you go abroad we may extend the full cover of your policy to include a country outside the territorial limits and we will give you an International Motor Insurance Card ( Green Card ) .
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