Example sentences of "[noun prp] did not give " in BNC.

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1 However , a Kuwaiti official told reporters that the talks had collapsed " because Kuwait did not give in to Iraqi demands to write off debts and to relinquish some of its territory " .
2 Christopher did not give details of the US aid programme , but he offered some general ideas .
3 It is since clear that Lord Salisbury did not give his own views .
4 The reader should realize that Einstein did not give a rigorous mathematical proof of GR and neither has anyone else .
5 Reza Shah did not give his son much of substance to do .
6 But Booth did not give up .
7 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 .
8 The rocks missed him , yet Jack did not give up and set alight the forest .
9 Taxi boss Dave Blyth said Derek did not give in without a fight .
10 Althusser suggests that although Marxist history is defined as a theory of the modes of production , Marx did not give us any theory of how the transition was effected from one mode of production to another , nor of how each mode of production was constituted .
11 It is therefore extremely significant that we read of Jesus in the New Testament that the Spirit descends and remains on him ( John 1:32 ) and that God did not give his Spirit by measure or sparingly to him ( John 3:34 ) .
12 God did not give the job , he could not , and he did not try to give the job to anybody else !
13 A junior minister 's pay scarcely covers the cost of a man 's cartridges for the year , but Soames did not give the matter a second thought .
14 Concentrating on his first reason , Sophie did not give much attention to his last remark .
15 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 .
16 Frau Nordern did not give the lorries a second glance but dived down a side-street into a rather agreeable square .
17 Sophia Arkwright did not give the details , which Paul was to learn later ; the madman had slashed his wrists with a razor which a careless attendant had left within reach .
18 Although Price did not give his evidence on oath ( because under Swedish law an accomplice can not be required to give evidence on oath ) , he was reminded of his duty to speak the truth when questioned in court , and he declared himself to be aware of his duty of truthfulness .
19 Histon keeper David Norman went off with a back injury but Newmarket did not give his replacement , ex-Newmarket defender Dick Hall , too many problems after the break .
20 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 .
21 Fergie did not give up easily .
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