Example sentences of "give away " in BNC.
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| 1 | Po will prepare banquets on both Saturday and Sunday and will demonstrate vegetable chopping , drawing noodles by hand , and give away the ‘ secret ’ ingredients of crispy seaweed . |
| 2 | They either have to take too much of the risk themselves , or give away too much of their potential reward . |
| 3 | They resolve to get up early , have a proper breakfast , walk to the station , give away the TV set , and go to church every Sunday instead of lounging about drinking Martinis . |
| 4 | The bags were of that thinner kind of plastic they use for the bags that they give away at the supermarket , the free ones ; and now one of the bags in her right hand split and she just stood there helpless to stop them as three cans fell out and rolled across the concrete . |
| 5 | If you do , you give away your age . |
| 6 | Between about 1922 and 1925 they sold Army Surplus tools and oddments of which there were a great deal at the end of World War I , obtainable at give away prices . |
| 7 | Under the legislation , manufacturers can claim a credit of 25 per cent of the market value for each computer they give away to schools . |
| 8 | For my father would keep the best for himself , to train and breed , and sell or give away the remainder . |
| 9 | Pour the chutney into small sterilised jars , seal , label and give away as presents . |
| 10 | If we give away so many against England , I fear Jonathan Webb will not miss them . ’ |
| 11 | Yours to enjoy for the rest of your life , rent to friends , sell , give away , or even pass on to your children . |
| 12 | MIX and Max with Mel and you could be on to a video winner as we give away more than £2,500worth of Gibson tapes . |
| 13 | Other than the exemptions described above , tax has to be paid on any capital gain that has built up on an asset you give away during your lifetime . |
| 14 | Although IBM and DEC withdrew their products from Technology following its acquisition by ICL , Coon says that Technology has convinced him that it will not cross sell or give away DG 's secrets to its competitors . |
| 15 | In these terms one might argue that some languages ‘ give away ’ more about the status of a speaker ( and the relationship with an interlocutor ) through their grammatical structure , while others do so through paralinguistic features . |
| 16 | The economics of all such awards are sound : give away a substantial sum of prize money ( preferably the biggest that most seductive word ) , spend a little more on promotion , and , most essential , appoint as judges a judicious mixture of ancient worthies , the current great and good , a television personality or some such , and perhaps a critic or museum man to add some small semblance of probity to the proceedings . |
| 17 | Not even the year in which he was born , the sort of information even gravestones give away . |
| 18 | less reliable supporters give away one or more of these to candidates of other parties who are better known to them . |
| 19 | Most of these covers were made in the late eighteenth century or the early nineteenth , and often give away their date in their names . |
| 20 | We 'll play some of the most original calls and give away fish and chip meals Mm . |
| 21 | The effect of such a rule is that the lineage of the bride and the lineage of the husband are placed in an asymmetrical wife-giver/wife-receiver relationship ; the wife-givers then receive " valuables " of some sort in return for the women that they give away . |
| 22 | When I confirmed that it was called the Skein of Geese , she pulled out one of those little books of matches they give away in such places and said : ‘ The same as this , you mean ? ’ |
| 23 | He wants to win with goals to spare — and not give away a goal . |
| 24 | We should only buy woods that have sustainable sources , look first for furniture in second-hand shops , and give away old household items to be sold by charities . |
| 25 | And so what he 's trying to do is to as Andrea says erm uncover the truth , get to the , get to what really happened as it were , under the layers of myth and distortion could have been introduced in the Bible story , and as I said if you read the book erm and it is quite fascinating in many ways , it is a bit like a detective story because what Freud does is he tries to get to the truth by analyzing the , the actual texts and the texts contains discrepancies and anybody who 's ever tried to erm edit a book , learns this to their cost actually , but er you find no matter how carefully you change things , there 's usually things you miss , little discrepancies that give away how it was the first time and er Freud 's view is this , this has happened very much to the Bible , it 's been so heavily edited and re-written and later the the various editings show and if you read it very critically , you can begin to see perhaps the underlying pattern er coming through and erm just as you can tell for instance by reading Genesis , that it 's a of two accounts because there are two stories , the first story is Chapter One of Genesis , then in Chapter Three or something there 's a second story repeats it with variations . |
| 26 | I think that was a dead give away that was . |
| 27 | Well the trade would be benefiting because when we give away free tickets we 're taking commission away from them . |
| 28 | I think I think we give away far too many free tickets |
| 29 | A last minute give away allowed the midlanders to claim a point when the match was in the bag . |
| 30 | Ca n't help it I I 'm such a give away when things like that are happening . |