Example sentences of "that [verb] [adv] give " in BNC.
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1 | Ally McCoist 's fitness will determine who plays up front and yesterday Roxburgh said that the improvement in the player 's hamstring injury was such that he would now be ‘ disappointed ’ if the scorer of 41 goals for his club this season did not play on the ground that has yet to give up a goal to Scotland since they became tenants at Ibrox . |
2 | There 's no doubt about it , curtains that hang beautifully give an elegant finish to a room . |
3 | There was much to be said in favour of the view that it did , in respect that doing so gave the shopper control of the article and the capacity to exclude any other shopper from taking it . |
4 | If she discusses feelings of this kind with you , perhaps the best you can offer her , apart from a sympathetic ear , is to try to assure her that love freely given is never pointless and never lost . |
5 | The torygraph is full of tits — namely the people who write — especially the football correspondents and even more so those that do n't give Leeds a good write up ( see Leeds vs Arse ) . |
6 | He tried , and felt himself falling into the tree , confused , unable to find a stance that did not give way into clutching twigs and flailing branches . |
7 | Something to account for her needing to get into the Workshops , but something that did not give away the Beastline people 's plans to attack Tara ? |
8 | You said er , I told , I told him I was fed up with the General Secretary of this union that had n't given us any backing and you said sorry Phil , but I 'm not the General Secretary . |
9 | The headlights revealed only the worn flagstones of the farmyard , the archway into the byre on the ground floor of the house , the crumbling steps that had once given access to the living quarters above . |
10 | He examined himself from head to foot , assessing without vanity the beauty that had once given him an honest pleasure , and he marked without fear the changes that moved in upon him now daily . |
11 | Both Morse and Lewis stood , rather warily , beside the car as Downes began to fiddle ( once more ) with a hearing-aid one which looked to them suspiciously like the model that had earlier given rise to such piercing oscillation . |
12 | If they confirm that he left at one-thirty , then that does n't give him much time to have entered Randall Lodge and killed Wetherby ; he was practically at Ollerton by two a.m. , driving slowly despite being in his Daimler . |
13 | This is the one that does n't give water . |
14 | A Japanese researcher has managed to create a fresh mild garlic that does n't give you garlic breath . |
15 | It is doing so in a way that does not give wind a good name . |
16 | Why should the House take seriously any patients charter that does not give back to those patients the right to choose their hospital — a right that they had until the Government took it away ? |
17 | Books that set out to give advice to management never fail to point out that a " no " decision is not at all the same thing as failure to make a decision . |