Example sentences of "and [verb] n't give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't close your ears to the world and do n't give up . |
| 2 | give up seats for you And do n't give |
| 3 | Always throw away broken toys and do n't give them to others — it just passes on the risk of accidents to someone else . |
| 4 | I keep at it — whatever it is — and do n't give up too easily |
| 5 | They still maintain they 're ‘ dead immature and do n't give a shit ’ , but they are also bored stupid by all the tales of rock'n'roll excess . |
| 6 | ‘ Serve the Captain first — and do n't give me any , you know it 's bad for me , not more than a taste , one slice — that 's enough ! |
| 7 | Try making a " clean start " — say , on the hour — and do n't give up until you 've completed a reasonable work stint . |
| 8 | Try to limit juice and other sugary drinks to mealtimes when they 'll do the least damage , dilute them well and do n't give them in a bottle used as a dummy because these bathe the teeth in sugar for long periods of time . |
| 9 | And do n't give me that ‘ Yes , but it 's their talent that comes across ’ routine , because your idea of coming across must be very different from mine . |
| 10 | Beckoning over a young man , whose look of boredom miraculously changed to one of interest when he saw Ellie , the receptionist gave a wry smile before instructing , ‘ If you 'll give him your car keys , he 'll park it for you and take your luggage up to your room — and do n't give him more than your car keys , ’ she added with friendly warning . |
| 11 | ‘ And do n't give me any crap about hunting and fur-trading helping to preserve the primitive economies and lifestyles of Eskimos and Bantu bloody tribesmen or whatever . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ And do n't give me any crap about a man 's got ta do what a man 's got ta do . |
| 13 | And do n't give me fish . |
| 14 | that 's a funny thing on the phone when he said about paying I said a hundred a six pound complete so I said and do n't give me a cheque cos I do n't want one ! |
| 15 | And do n't give it to me again . |
| 16 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 17 | We rattled them from the first minute and did n't give them any breathing space . |
| 18 | The belt was quite tough and did n't give way at once when Bully pulled at it , so Angela was dragged along as Bully backed , growling , until finally she lost her balance and ended up spreadeagled on her front on the pavement . |
| 19 | We were all having a furious argument about who should be there to land this enormous tip and while we were doing that , his Royal Highness sort of sneaked out and did n't give anything to any of us . |
| 20 | ‘ He played tennis on a high level for two and half hours , and did n't give me time to breathe , and that caught me by surprise a little bit , ’ said Boris Becker , his prize scalp , after the German had lost . |
| 21 | Unfortunately it kept to the tops of the trees and did n't give me any chance of pictures . |
| 22 | Needless to say , I did n't buy the memory expansion and did n't give myself a Christmas present . |
| 23 | They were trying to isolate the gene that produces insulin and insert it into the nucleus of a bacterium , so that you could get a self-replicating life-form which could then be used in the treatment of diabetes , or else it could provide a source of insulin that was n't animal-derived and did n't give you rejection problems . |
| 24 | The sunlight that filtered through the windows mellowed the old wood and brought out the richness of its colour , and even the stone floor glowed softly and did n't give any impression of coldness . |
| 25 | I was young , tired , slightly drunk , and did n't give a rat 's codpiece so I undressed and , within a few minutes , was lost in the sleep of the just . |
| 26 | People got in and out of the lifts and did n't give him a second glance . |
| 27 | But Peter was already hurrying down the steps and did n't give a backward glance . |
| 28 | You did n't do the work at all and did n't give me the book either . |
| 29 | ‘ Academics get on by publishing papers and TCS by it 's very nature is n't research ; it 's technology transfer and does n't give the same opportunity for publishing … |
| 30 | ‘ Academics get on by publishing papers and TCS by it 's very nature is n't research ; it 's technology transfer and does n't give the same opportunity for publishing … |