Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [conj] give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They echo the theme set in last year 's CBI Business Agenda for the 1990s with the emphasis on controlling inflation , public spending , strengthening the Department of Trade & Industry and giving it responsibility for the National Economic Development Council and opposing a national minimum wage . |
| 2 | The methods of testing varies from kit to kit , but most consist of taking a sample of water and adding a few drops of the special reagent or tablet and giving it a shake . |
| 3 | All you or your workmen have to do is supply a concrete base and clad the outside walls in brick or stone and give it the finishing touches . |
| 4 | One is to give all the children obstacles such as sacks , boxes , old tyres , ladders and ropes and give them the opportunity to make up their own course . |
| 5 | Please believe in my loyalty and friendship and give my best wishes to your wife . |
| 6 | The sayings of country people , sometimes tinged with poetry , always rich in concrete images and braced with the vigour and rhythm that gives them long life , are worth revealing . |
| 7 | Was n't it time to put aside her fears and insecurities and give herself up to the heady delight of love and passion ? |
| 8 | I know somebody here who got very good marks for his lab work and he 's good on computers , and he just programmed the computers in random errors and stuff that give him set results and nice graphs , and they were n't perfect so nobody noticed them , but he fiddled them , and that way he did n't have to do any lab work if he did n't want to . |
| 9 | There is a walk that takes iii two of these sites of history and legend and gives you grand views across the Dales to the third . |
| 10 | At the Pattmore project in London and the Rosemount project in Glasgow for example , mothers are provided with adequate child care and it enables them to attend courses and gain skills and qualifications that give them a better chance in the job market . |
| 11 | Using the slogan ‘ Switch onto the New Clydesdale ’ to capture the company 's new image , Clydesdale devised a marketing strategy which improved staff skills , service levels and motivation and gave it a more upmarket profile in tune with the width and quality of its product range . |
| 12 | I note that it is the Liberal Democrats ' policy to take power away from parents and governors and to give it to centralised bureaucrats , and that is precisely like the Labour party policy as in so many things . |
| 13 | They also all helped with the cleaning in turn , ‘ like do the curtains and windows and give it a general do over . ’ |
| 14 | The landlord of the other pub comes in occasionally , orders and ½pint and give him this note . ’ |
| 15 | Give them a short back and sides and give them a taste of the birch . |
| 16 | Sergeant licked Master 's face and hands and gave him playful nips on the arms . |
| 17 | You remember those things : they littered the creeks and bywaters of harbours , slowly returning to nature , back to the trees and minerals that gave them life . |
| 18 | Because she was beautiful , with her flaxen blonde hair tumbling down her back and those unusual dark eyes and eyebrows that gave her a look of the exotic . |
| 19 | I retained my archers but took away their bows and arrows and gave them powerful , waterproof torches instead . |
| 20 | He tucked the phone between chin and shoulder and gave me a friendly salute , but did n't pause in his recitation of copy . |