Example sentences of "not give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The passion she had tried to feel for feminism was not enough , it did not give her enough strength to stand up for herself against the demands of these two women who wanted her , needed her and demanded her . |
| 2 | If she did , Jill could not say no ; and then , on Monday , her father being told , would not give her away , would not say : My daughter is a thief . |
| 3 | They should not feel aggrieved at her asking for money ; when she went into the cold hall she felt that it would not give her back much , if anything . |
| 4 | No — better not give her any excuse to make that sort of trouble . |
| 5 | I for one will not give her the satisfaction of even seeming to care . |
| 6 | Nevertheless she said , ‘ Why not give her the benefit of the doubt ? |
| 7 | But he did not give her the opportunity . |
| 8 | ‘ Why not give yourself a rest from it ? ’ |
| 9 | Do not give yourself a nervous breakdown trying to prepare and cook three courses on the day perfectly and on time . |
| 10 | Two separate people are essential for any exchange to take place : you can not give presents to yourself , just as you can not give yourself to yourself . |
| 11 | Figuratively speaking , who would not give their right arm to find such a love ? |
| 12 | The two are said to be doubtful about Sun 's ability to deliver the code on time and they suspect the company may not give their systems priority over its own . |
| 13 | British subjects and Commonwealth citizens need not give their address . |
| 14 | She did not give their talk her whole attention . |
| 15 | Nine patients did not give their number of sexual partners and one of them did not tell her age at first intercourse . |
| 16 | Before he could be consulted , writs were issued against the banks by the companies and the shareholders in accordance with resolutions purporting to have been passed by each board of directors consisting of members of the Crawley family , but the receivers of each of the companies did not give their consent . |
| 17 | Such methods do not give their cause sufficient weight , but a consultative committee would ensure that disabled people have a strong voice in these matters . |
| 18 | And it it really is covered by the passages in erm erm , just , I just reiterate that that that expressly referring your Lordship to it , professional duty except in so far as it may be necessary to elucidate the rules that that was at page eight hundred and forty one at the bottom and it goes over the page to eight four two and then proceeds to general proposition to those two experts ordinary witness may not may not give their opinions towards matters legal or moral obligation . |
| 19 | They did not give their reasons , but Fr Morrow said that they had told him they had carefully studied the Law Lords ' decision to allow feeding tubes to be removed from Mr Bland and felt that they could not serve the summons . |
| 20 | What to me seems surprising is that M. Oliver , who presumably supplied the recipes for the Le Creuset leaflet , does not give what is said to be the old and traditional fondue of Franche-Comté , a dish in every respect superior to its primitive Swiss counterpart , having both greater finesse of flavour and texture and far less brutally indigestible qualities . |
| 21 | Perhaps they could not be good wives and good mothers because they could not give what they had never had . |
| 22 | But , of course , he would not give her time . |
| 23 | You may find that she will need to lean on you a little for several months to speak and act for her in matters she can not give her full attention to , because she will be quite rightly absorbed for the time being in grieving , which is mentally and emotionally very hard work indeed . |
| 24 | Studies conducted by PHC Nursing ( PHCN ) students between 1987 and 1988 showed that villagers did not believe in ORS but would carry the solution in the litre bottle to the clinic to ‘ show ’ the nurse otherwise she would not give her child muti ( medicine ) . |
| 25 | Why did they not give her toys to play with ? |
| 26 | She will leave , take the children with her and is often in no hurry to take on another man who can not give her caring in return . |
| 27 | Because the media they will not give her peace ! |
| 28 | Five months ago it was tens of thousands , quickly to become millions , of Chinese invoking his name as a symbol of the political reforms which their own rulers would not give them . |
| 29 | ‘ But we can not give them cash limits because we have no idea how bad the weather is going to be in the winter or what particular type of ‘ flu might be coming along . |
| 30 | Admittedly the referee was a foolish fellow who kept re-penalising Swansea for failing to retreat 10 yards when he did not give them the remotest chance to do so . |