Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , however , it struck her that she 'd better not give Patrice an opening , though she was n't quite sure why . |
| 2 | Confused now at all the permutations of possibilities , Chesarynth decided on the safest course : I 'd better not give too much away . |
| 3 | I was up ‘ til midnight making the gekhakte chicken liver and roasting the turkey for the sandwiches and doing the potato salad , so you 'd better not give me any nonsense about your latest low-fat diet , Rebecca , or you either , Rainbow , though a little slimming routine might not be such a bad thing for you , except today 's a special occasion , so just tuck in . |
| 4 | Life tenure did not however give complete and uniform security . |
| 5 | I did not just give up after one attempt . |
| 6 | You did not just give me my money for passing ! |
| 7 | ‘ She did not really give any reason why . |
| 8 | The life of the anchoress was hard but she did not necessarily give herself over to excessive penance . |
| 9 | But the Anglicans , like the Lutherans , did not suddenly give up the composition of Latin texts . |
| 10 | the type of department where the student was registered did not always give a good indication of the research area being covered ; |
| 11 | During the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries tenants throughout the realm had found that custom did not always give them the protection that they believed they had . |
| 12 | Do not just give yourself the whole week off . |
| 13 | Do not simply give a list of the work you have been doing up to date but show how the experience you have gained in the other job has directly fitted you to do the new one . |
| 14 | It enables us to experience desires we do not ordinarily give ourselves credit for , and to exercise choices society is reluctant to admit . |
| 15 | The decided cases do not yet give a clear answer to this problem but presumably the retention of title clause would entitle the seller to take and re-sell such of the timber he had supplied under this contract as remained unsold and unmixed in the buyer 's possession . |
| 16 | But the mass media do not single-handedly give shape to the contours of the political system . |
| 17 | ( Lecturers at the Open University do not normally give lectures at all ; they produce correspondence material for their students , as well as working with BBC colleagues on the production of radio and television programmes . ) |
| 18 | I do not normally give way to someone who has just ambled into the Chamber , but I shall make an exception on this occasion , because I rather like the hon. Gentleman 's florid looks . |
| 19 | Do not necessarily give the job to the most highly qualified candidate . |
| 20 | Customers thinking about buying a product do not always give a clear indication about what they require . |
| 21 | do not always give the job to the best of a bad bunch , but investigate where the recruiting methods and job specification may have gone wrong and start again ; |
| 22 | Briefly , the available evidence shows that the benefit they confer on the various socio-economic groups changes according to government policies and they do not always give greater benefits to those living in council accommodation , as is often assumed . |
| 23 | In our society it has been pointed out that we do not always give due credit to the ladies who provide the refreshments at our meetings , and yet the coffee break is an attractive part of the evenings , the time when we can chat about the talk and other railway topics . |
| 24 | Recent reprints of Royal Institution discourses , organized under disciplines , do not really give the flavour of the programme as a whole . |
| 25 | She told me this when I was very small , so I 've always known my real mother did n't just give me away . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You did n't even give him one of those fancy cookies just now , ’ she added in an aggrieved tone . |
| 27 | Talbot did n't even give it a second thought : his faith in his senior quartermaster was complete . |
| 28 | The men lounging beside the gate did n't even give them a second glance . |
| 29 | What he said was a vague approximation of what Malcolm Harris had written , and he did n't even give the right cue to George Birkitt , who spoke next . |
| 30 | ‘ He did n't even give de Raimes time to grab a weapon . |