Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] give [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps , when he 'd dropped her , he 'd better give a little thought to damage limitation and the covering of his tracks . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'd better give the lads an 'and , ’ he said , nudging Freddie . |
| 3 | Actually — ’ she frowned at her watch as she followed the other girl to the door ‘ — I definitely think I 'd better give the coffee a miss . |
| 4 | You 'd better give the prizes , I 'll have the . |
| 5 | You do n't mind do you , you do n't give a monkeys , do you Dot ? |
| 6 | It did n't matter then how much work there was to do just give a yelp |
| 7 | He was sitting there with his head in his hands ; he did not rise when the train passed ; he made no movement ; he did not give a glance at the signs I made him ; and for a long time as the train was carrying me away , I watched his little motionless , grief-stricken figure , lost in the desert , an image of my own despair . |
| 8 | Judicial separation by the ecclesiastical courts , which did not give a licence to remarry . |
| 9 | It said that PW 's independence was compromised by BCCI loans to partnerships in Panama and Barbados , and that from 1987 onwards the firm had ‘ ample reason ’ to believe that BCCI 's accounts did not give a true and fair view of its financial situation . |
| 10 | The film is the story of decadent British aristocrats who did not give a damn for anything but their own pleasure . |
| 11 | AUSSIE tripper John Lambert found a British bank did not give a XXXX when he handed back £1,000 they handed him by mistake . |
| 12 | According to this source , and obviously excluding those firms who did not give a year of formation , only fifteen firms were established in the 1960s . |
| 13 | War in France had not hitherto been popular : in the thirteenth century it had been said that the English knights ‘ did not give a bean for all of France ’ , and resistance to service in France had been an important element in the political crisis of 1297 . |
| 14 | In it she asked him to come home , but she did not give a reason . |
| 15 | The Minister did not give a clear response to the question from my Hon. Friend the Member for Dundee , East . |
| 16 | The reader should realize that Einstein did not give a rigorous mathematical proof of GR and neither has anyone else . |
| 17 | During his opening speech , I asked the Secretary of State a question to which he did not give a full or satisfactory answer — why had not the Government sought to introduce those measures before they privatised monopolies , rather than wait until the customers had suffered the consequences of several years of high prices and not necessarily improved services ? |
| 18 | Foreign Minister Theodore Holo disclosed on Nov. 5 that the government was seeking renewed ties with Israel but did not give a timetable for normalizing relations . |
| 19 | Although he did not give a new date for the elections , Traore stressed that the postponement would not affect the timetable for the transition period which had been extended in December [ see p. 38563 ] . |
| 20 | After Tuesday 's goings on , he frankly did not give a Castlemaine XXXX for his chances of being called to the rostrum . |
| 21 | It was early yet — not even six o'clock — and they were high on spending money and trying lovely outfits on , so did not give a toss . |
| 22 | You did not give a name . ’ |
| 23 | Many members of the Admiralty were furious with their First Lord when the temporary appointment was ratified on November 28 , but Churchill did not give a fig . |
| 24 | It was nature that had turned her grey , she said , and she did not give a damn . |
| 25 | Although the House of Lords did not give a concluded opinion , the inclination of the judgments was that the court could not use the test to limit a plaintiff to a proportion of his losses . |
| 26 | Some scholars have claimed that the fact that Ambrose did not give an exact site for the church — indeed , it seems he was actually careful not to — means that it was not a real church at all , merely a metaphor . |
| 27 | Mr Tantum criticised a suggestion made by the Law Commission this year that hacking in its simple form should be an offence which did not give the police powers to arrest suspects or search their premises . |
| 28 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 29 | The Boston text relates more exclusively to the movement itself and includes , along with historical material , a brief statement by Mark Francis which is intended to justify and explain the motives behind the exhibition ( the Situationists did not give the event their blessings and none of the past members participated in its planning ) . |
| 30 | Frau Nordern did not give the lorries a second glance but dived down a side-street into a rather agreeable square . |