Example sentences of "[verb] give i [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The committee would never have given me this show if it was n't for the Machin revival . |
| 32 | In the following example , the head is the first five syllables : Bill called to give me those |
| 33 | Lovely , very , very , good indeed , that , that is there now , sounds very good , just , erm , a few little things , would you try to give me more on the fifth finger , the E , the E flat , there , think of a crescendo , to that , want that come out , then , then it will , erm , I 'm almost frightened to put a crescendo in because it was n't the , a big one . |
| 34 | She said , ‘ You 'll have to give me some money out of the housekeeping . |
| 35 | You 'll have to give me those batteries back . |
| 36 | And please try to give me some indication of where this man can be found . ’ |
| 37 | My parents could only afford to give me some small change on Sundays , but it was enough for a cinema ticket and an ice cream . |
| 38 | I 'm afraid I persuaded the woman I spoke to give me this address . |
| 39 | And they 've given me that . |
| 40 | In the meantime they 've given me this to go on with , ’ he answered , throwing our ration card across the table . |
| 41 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 42 | That 's why , ’ said Mahmoud , tapping the bundle of papers , ‘ they 've given me this . |
| 43 | You 've given me enough food to keep me alive and Cousin Genti 's cast-off clothing , seeing we 're the same size . |
| 44 | Two , two , one and , and the groups tell us who the representatives are , and I , I wo n't serve on the committee , I think I 'll er , that I 'll , you 've given me enough to do anyway , there 's a limit , and unlike our officer , I do have to do some cooking . |
| 45 | On the day the telegram arrived from Southern Ferries , a close friend who had given me much encouragement now began to question my continuing any further . |
| 46 | As we approached the loch , in order to impress Blair with my vast knowledge , I repeated Stan 's tale about Pennel Point , being careful not to mention who had given me such valuable information . |
| 47 | She had given me this book , Period , and she says that how you feel about your first period affects you all your life , it affects your self-image , so it 's very important . |
| 48 | Yet strangely my time at Bristol had given me some relevant training . |
| 49 | Robyn , one of the other stage managers , had given me some Hebrew books . |
| 50 | And I learn quite a lot myself but it does give me that little bit of a challenge that er I think is helpful in retirement . |
| 51 | I would , I would hope that as erm , as a committee we can support all these objectives , er , it does give me some cause for concern , that our own government is objecting to these provisions . |
| 52 | They 've give me that . |
| 53 | I used to sit in my living room with my mouth open , eyes raised to heaven waiting for something to happen to give me this new boldness and this ability to speak in tongues which seemed often to accompany the events in Acts . |
| 54 | ‘ And do n't start giving me any of that Man Friday , racial stereotyping , bro ! ’ |
| 55 | ‘ But my chairman and vice-chairman have given me another year 's contract , and I 'm absolutely delighted to be staying at Nottingham Forest . |
| 56 | That 's given me all sorts of things has it ? |
| 57 | One is to include corporate dummy variable of the intercept and see whether it 's T ratio or significantly different , is , sorry it 's greater than two right or we can use an F test , right , now that F test that 's given me that formula in the middle of the page is a very important test which was developed by a chap called Chow and as a result it become known as the Chow test and it 's a , it 's a test for parameter constancy , er do we have constant parameters in our model now it tells you how to compute this Chow test , in this particular case we 're only dummying the intercept , the Chow test gives exactly the same results of T tests , right , erm we wo n't bother going through it , if you want to go through this er sheet in your own time calculate that , that Chow test and essentially what it involves is splitting with the s the whole sample now into two sub-samples , right , the first sub-sample , right , is peacetime , the second sub-sample wartime , right , and you just compare the residual sum of the squares on the unaccounted for variation , right , between actual and fitted values , just compare the residual sum of squares between these two sub periods , right and if you use the formula that 's given there that will come out with exactly the same result , well in actual fact you can square , if you square the F statistic you get calculating one formula you will get T value , got from er the computer right , the er , the sheet goes on to say how we can er use dummy variables in slightly more complicated ways , right , we could see actually see whether the income or price elasticities of demand changed . |
| 58 | No all he 's given me each day is paper money plus about one fifty . |
| 59 | ‘ Nobody 's ever happy when they 're on the bench , but it 's given me some time to get my mind right again . |
| 60 | I 'm very fond of Mel , although he 's given me some hard times . |