Example sentences of "they could give " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the start of my period of being harassed , I went down to my local law centre to see what help they could give me . |
| 2 | I could n't go on living in a place where I was no use , ’ she spoke with the quietness and desperate authority of someone who had discovered they could give up no more ground and live . |
| 3 | Although these encroachments may appear to be rather small , they could give your neighbour valid grounds for complaint , which could result in costly legal proceedings . |
| 4 | Group members can also be asked if they could give a small life history of themselves , although never without prior warning , and only if they are sufficiently confident to do so . |
| 5 | I mean they could give you a decent stand to put it in cos I hate those ones at Sainsbury 's . |
| 6 | Innate within him was the ability to put committee members at their ease , so that they could give of their best , and he could abstract the maximum amount of information . |
| 7 | I asked if they could give me something for the pain . |
| 8 | Gabriel knocked at the door and asked if they could give him a bed for the night and a bite to eat . |
| 9 | Indeed , there is a greater likelihood that they could give the names of more researchers in the same field in another country than they could give the names of staff in other disciplines in the same building . |
| 10 | Indeed , there is a greater likelihood that they could give the names of more researchers in the same field in another country than they could give the names of staff in other disciplines in the same building . |
| 11 | ‘ They could give us maps and we could find the way perfectly easily . |
| 12 | They told him , however , that they were short of staff and the earliest they could give a result was nine o'clock that night . |
| 13 | You could either ask a gardening friend if they could give you one or you could try and take one yourself . |
| 14 | The engineers did not know ; they could give no intelligible reply . |
| 15 | " I wish they could give you an aspirin or something for it , though . |
| 16 | ‘ Or perhaps others did n't feel they could give in to it as I did . ’ |
| 17 | They could give kamikaze pilots some lessons ! |
| 18 | After the vote there was no punishment they could give me anyway , because punishment involved breaking regulations of World Peace . |
| 19 | The task was " forced " in that the respondents were not allowed to answer " impossible to say " to the question about the speaker 's race , but had to opt for one of the three possibilities , although they could give this the lowest confidence rating . |
| 20 | my Lord that , that must be right because that would only be the way in which they could give negative clearance , because the clause or the membership rules were inappreciable |
| 21 | Therefore I think it would be a better idea if units could be set up and the children could be taken out of an ordinary school for perhaps one or two or three years , according to how much time is required , where they could give the individual attention and the specialist teaching to help them to overcome this particular problem . |