Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this ‘ miracle that God let be born in Salzburg ’ , every musician has since humbly given thanks . |
| 2 | Amongst those who did give , education , health and general welfare came out as top recipients , but the top 200 corporate donors altogether only gave 150 million for all purposes — a trivial sum in comparison with any social spending total : 25 billion , say , on the NHS or education ( see Figure 9.1 ) . |
| 3 | He would then be able to judge to which of the latter he could most advantageously give his second preference , and this informed choice could well not be the same as the " blind " choice the STV obliges him to make . |
| 4 | Doing so presumably gives a director complete control over the performances , but surely at the expense of the final result . |
| 5 | He had long since given up reading the tabloids . |
| 6 | She is past the menopause and she and Abraham have long since given up sexual intercourse . |
| 7 | Overtaking needs a bit more planning , but for those who have long since given up the chase and opted for a more dignified life , this is a lot of car for the money plus a BMW badge to ride behind . |
| 8 | His hand and arms were free , but his knees and ankles had long since given out . |
| 9 | The Tour has long since given up those occasional easy days known as promenades , when the peloton idled along , especially on the Mediterranean coast , as though on a club run . |
| 10 | Mother had long since given up remonstrating with us on the need to show respect and reverence towards our aunts , her sisters-in-law . |
| 11 | Medical sociology has long since given up looking at process — it 's too busy experiencing illness and waffling on about doctor-patient interaction . |
| 12 | The seagulls have long since given up on this ferry . |
| 13 | Colonel Fergusson had long since given up trying to understand the business . |
| 14 | Though the unit had long since given up any pretence of cooling the room , it did turn out to have a curious talent for magnifying the pigeons ' footfalls so that their tap dance rang out like a drum-roll at six every morning . |
| 15 | I 'd long since given up trying to get her not to call me that . |
| 16 | This remains one of the strongest reasons why so many parents still want their children to have RE even though they themselves have long since given up having much to do with religion . |
| 17 | Then the conifers would have long since given up their job as nurses to the beeches and ended in a timber yard . |
| 18 | Birds have long since given up trying to nest in her eaves . |
| 19 | In this way sound very clearly echoes or perhaps rather gives the lead to sense . |
| 20 | ‘ In the administration of government in this country the functions which are given to ministers ( and constitutionally properly given to ministers because they are constitutionally responsible ) are functions so multifarious that no minister could ever personally attend to them . |
| 21 | Her younger brother was sent by Teresa later in the day to say she would not be returning to a house where a dangerous lunatic lived and no one could expect her to — she would rather forfeit that week 's wages than wait long enough to give notice . |
| 22 | But we are given such a huge sweep from birth to incipient death that the movie never draws breath long enough to give us any depth or conflict . |
| 23 | My chances of getting my hands on it long enough to give it the once-over were minimal , and I did n't fancy trying to steal it off Harley . |
| 24 | They remained long enough to give their name to the region of Italy where they settled , and to create the marcher duchy of Friuli as a buffer zone against attacks on their kingdom by the occupiers of the Sava-Danube lowlands — the Slavs and their overlords , the Avars . |
| 25 | The engineers were also said to have become better dressed , improved in their conduct and manners and much less given to drink : " they are decidedly better men " . |
| 26 | Intellectual fascination with communism had been a feature of the 1930s ( naturally enough given the gloom and despair of that period ) and Communist Party membership surged during the war in response to admiration for the Russian military effort . |
| 27 | He would now and then play the most egregious fool in his carriage and was so much given to jesters , players and childish sports , to make himself merry , that anybody who saw his gravity on the one part and his folly and lightness on the other , would surely say that there were two distinct persons in him . |
| 28 | Pruning to the same hard degree invariably results in an explosion of growth , and such varieties are really much better given enough space elsewhere to do their own thing , and be treated as shrub roses . |
| 29 | So better give her mother time to cool down and not stoke her anger further by trying to defend Molly . |
| 30 | As for Dinah , she was so greatly given to her acting that she took no notice of any of the young men . |