Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] [vb mod] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strathclyde 's chairman of highways and transport , Malcolm Waugh , has said he will give no blank cheque to ScotRail 's future owners unless he gets assurances that the role of the council is written into franchising arrangements . |
| 2 | I suppose if you 'd asked me before all this happened , I 'd have said I 'd give in , but I was so angry . |
| 3 | Those who provide public services will have to prove they can give the right quality at the right cost . |
| 4 | As she talked Eva revealed it was not just that she was coming back to God , but that she had realised she must give her whole self to him for the ministry . |
| 5 | He had said he would give up freelancing and get a regular job on a trade magazine or something . |
| 6 | They looked together at the one about the woman who had said she would give anything for a child , of any kind , even a hedgehog , and had duly given birth to a monster , half-hedgehog , half-boy . |
| 7 | But she also knew that if Jake and Janice could offer the happy home that Jake had promised she would give up her own claim in an instant . |
| 8 | You 've got I 'll give you twenty minutes and it 's got ta be ready to be handed over to the other group in twenty minutes time . |
| 9 | I may not have a lot to give but what I 've got I 'll give to you |
| 10 | She had thought she 'd give Maura 's long blonde hair a few good tugs , a scratch or two on her face , and then home to tea , basking in the other girls ' admiration . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've stopped because I had hoped you 'd give me an explanation . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I have to promise I 'll give it her back . |
| 14 | Well just when the land 's redistributed they would give their own families disproportionately more land . |