Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] [adv] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents will not concern their very young children with the details of the doctrine , as that is quite unnecessary for the establishment of the early conscience , but they should at least give them some introduction to it as soon as the need becomes obvious from their inevitable questions . |
| 2 | You may not have anything of significance which you can discover , but you should at least give some thought to it ; for what we are doing is to clear through , in order to clear away , some of the accumulated emotional jumble of the years . |
| 3 | Even if you are mouse phobe you should at least give it a try because you might be surprised at how easy it makes common operations . |
| 4 | It 's just possible Mr Deputy Speaker , it 's just possible I may not be selected for all kinds of reasons but if I was selected it might at least give the people of that lovely part of the world the chance of having the referendum they never had over Maastricht because of the shameful way in which the Labour party was not willing to allow the people to have their say on that vital issue . |
| 5 | You could at least give them about £100 to pay for their expense . |
| 6 | They could at least give the business rate — or an element of it — back to London so that the bills can be kept down there . |
| 7 | And the dazzling thing was that quite a few made a beeline for a lady who co , could at least give thirty years ! |
| 8 | I used to even give up my lunch hours so that I could come home and take the dog out ! |
| 9 | Keith used to just give them all twenty pence , but lately it 's been more . |
| 10 | Be , I used to bloody give them not-out by the umpire . |
| 11 | The paper went on the say that such a move would at least give the people who came into the city centre greater reassurance , even if they had to pay for the privilege . |
| 12 | But institutions could compensate for their loss of income by taking a more active role to ensure better performance from the management , which would at least give them the chance of a greater capital gain , so that their total return is unaffected . |
| 13 | If that is the case , you will find that reproducing this Four Seasons design will at least give you the chance to use four different colour themes and to create four little pictures within one frame . |
| 14 | I think can at once give the assurance that your screenplays are unusually promising . |
| 15 | The main approaches to the scientific detection of fakes are : the study of composition and methods of construction to see if they match the supposed age of the object ; examination for evidence of aging , such as the formation of a patina ; and the application of archaeological dating techniques , which can at least give an indication of age and in some cases an actual date . |