Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [vb mod] [adv] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er again that 's a very specific question to which I ca n't give a specific answer . |
| 2 | Because the European Commission is making a number of funds available to develop those links , the overture fund , the knowhow fund funded by the Foreign Office , the fund , the enterprise fund , the fur fund , the tempest fund , all these are in the reportback which I 'll gratefully give to the press and also the opposition if they 'll bother to read it . |
| 3 | Sons would volunteer and rush off to the village to bring back a ‘ set of couches ’ , proudly waiting for the praise which she would generously give , though they might not be quite what she expected . |
| 4 | And it is something of which we can not give or receive too much . |
| 5 | This is one subject on which we can not give a firm recommendation . |
| 6 | On this stone you must lay a feather from the tail of the cockerel here , which he will willingly give you , and the door will be opened to you . |
| 7 | In his inaugural address to ministers earlier that day the Czechoslovak President , Vaclav Havel , had urged the CSCE to create " a smaller organ similar to that of the UN Security Council , to which it could also give some executive powers " . |
| 8 | ‘ What I Would n't Give ’ , besides being utterly forgettable , contained the interesting line , ‘ There 's my Smiths ' tapes you never wanted to hear/ Throw them away/Morrissey in the bin . ’ |
| 9 | What I would n't give , I thought , to be able to lie down on that bed , just for a minute . |
| 10 | What I would n't give for Jim to do something like this — just occasionally . |
| 11 | By hell what I would n't give to see Leeds paste them 3–4 to nothing . |
| 12 | What she would n't give for a nice warm lap to rest her head in . |
| 13 | Though others envy what they can not give , for had the gift been theirs it had not here thus grown . |
| 14 | And , indeed , as befits someone who 's hovering on the edge of idolatry , even her vocabulary has gone a little pagan ‘ Till dieted by thee I grow mature in knowledge as the Gods who all things know ’ , and then what I think is a brilliant touch on Milton 's part , the very next line says to us ‘ Though others envy what they can not give ’ . |
| 15 | Nostalgic for what he would not give twopence to see back |
| 16 | Isolated in a foreign country , and longing for all that had once been familiar , if not at the time congenial , to him , it was easy for Lear to expect of Gould what he could never give . |