Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [pers pn] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was dead right but it gave me a tough act to follow and only Joyce 's famous ‘ George , do n't do that ’ would fit the bill . |
| 2 | Shields , of Carnac Crescent , Inverness , was said to have felt so guilty that he gave himself up to police after selling some of the haul to pay for drink . |
| 3 | It is perhaps interesting that she gave her forwarding address in America as 83 Brattle Street which was , in fact , where Emily Hale lived . |
| 4 | A council they oppose so much that they give us one of the lowest grants per head in the country , poll tax cap us , take us to court over redundancy payments , criticise us over the Meadow Well management and so on . |
| 5 | Excessive use of this technique in a self-administered or postal questionnaire can irritate respondents so much that they give up . |
| 6 | He did NOT write these words : ‘ God loved the brainy people and attractive people in the world so much that he gave his only Son , so that anyone with 8 GCSEs , 3 A-Levels and loads of friends may not die but have eternal life ’ ! ! |
| 7 | Did you want me so much that you gave them up ? ’ |
| 8 | It must not be so different that unity is destroyed , or so similar that it gives no feeling of change . |
| 9 | At the time Lady Moon , 54 , said : ‘ It was all so easy and it gave me a hell of a buzz , better than drugs . |
| 10 | it was ever so good because I gave him fi , the doctor said , you know I should give him you know , eat just before five o'clock and you go |
| 11 | Once I waited so long and stayed so late that I gave myself away to Syl , who had called in the usual way at the front door , to be told by my mother that I was in the summer-house and he should go and bring me out and back to the drawing-room where , like normal people , we should converse . |
| 12 | Their reaction was so encouraging that it gave me the strength to carry on . |
| 13 | Nor is it necessarily fatal if you give notice to terminate your contract and work that notice out , rather than walking out on the spot . |
| 14 | ‘ And he just stood there , ’ Emlyn concluded , ‘ looking so desperate that I gave us both an enormous gin and tonic ! ’ |
| 15 | Yes that seems to me to fit that sort of bill , erm to be quite honest I would prefer that we base the promises on a previous paper that T six six one , er you know , sort of er typical success of the fact looking forward cos at least erm that 's not so erm , you know , sort of difficult to erm you know achieve as erm sort of repairing potholes within , when you consider that the reason that the potholes do n't get mended is because government legislation has it that we have to actually erm have lines painted all round them , so that they can be part of the package of er road mending in many cases , I mean urgently erm difficult ones are not that common er so I think that perhaps some of these promises are so difficult because it gives with one hand and takes back with the other , you know , it says we promise , but , I , I would say that 's not much of a promise , you say I promise to erm , you know , erm merge , I forgot about , but if it said but , you know , if it rains I wo n't tell you , er it would be very sad |
| 16 | Well the flowering house plants , we hope you 're going to be given for Christmas , things like cyclamen and indoor azaleas and also your indoor bowls of course will last much longer if you give them the coolest , lightest position you can . |
| 17 | Inside , the room was bathed in a chic and sickly light , so sickly and so chic that it gave the impression of being a chartreuse light ( chartreuse is this year 's chic colour ; its sickliness needs no introduction from me ) although it was in fact pink . |
| 18 | This was especially true when he gave an impromptu lecture on the nature of matter in 1844 — the story is that Charles Wheatstone panicked and fled , leaving it to Faraday as chairman to satisfy the audience — and another on ray-vibrations in 1846 . |
| 19 | I was so surprised that I gave a great shout . |
| 20 | They expressed surprise at the figures I produced , and they were to be even more surprised in 1973 when a survey far more extensive than mine gave the number as 1,737,000 . |
| 21 | At the end of September the group split up ; determined to get away from things English , they now decided to explore different areas , thinking they would learn more German if they gave up each others ' company . |
| 22 | Our lives become richer and more free as we give ourselves to God and to of hers . |
| 23 | Perhaps Adams was more astute than he gave him credit for . |
| 24 | If it is thus hardly surprising that he gave I and II Cnut his backing at a Christmas court at Winchester , it is also impossible to prove that his regime otherwise paid them much heed . |
| 25 | She felt slightly ashamed that it gave her such satisfaction . |
| 26 | The two-parter was also fun as it gave all of us a chance to act in conflict and be a bit more expansive , because otherwise , if you think about it , all we were doing most of the time was feeding lines to other people . ’ |
| 27 | But in the end we get back as much as we give , and find that though such activities are often hard work and demanding , the fact that we are needed and active is rewarding and stimulating . |
| 28 | A large one , but perhaps not as large as I gave . ’ |
| 29 | You got as good as you gave . |
| 30 | I said that 's he went to this party and he he was like really hard and he was really drunk and he gave Scott , Noel and Ian a love bite like for a joke ! |