Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [not/n't] give [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I could n't give two monkeys , ’ he said , making ballet leaps out of sight behind the Land Rover . |
| 2 | Very few athletes enter sport without the assistance and encouragement of a teacher who might innocently create serious tensions , as with Jackie Jackson , whose PE teacher strengthened her commitment to athletics , a commitment which proved destructive to her educational aims , as she pointed out : ‘ I was spending so much time in athletics that I could n't give enough time to my ‘ A ’ levels . ’ |
| 3 | I would n't give any odds on him keeping that right arm , either . ’ |
| 4 | And I would not give another year of my life to a new version , he wrote . |
| 5 | ‘ I ca n't give that sort of guarantee . |
| 6 | ‘ I ca n't give any answers as to why we were beaten , but I felt we were turning the corner and starting to play the Liverpool way again . |
| 7 | I ca n't give any guarantee whatsoever that we will , but at least we will try and if that were to meet with your Lordships approval , then er I would be content to go on that basis . |
| 8 | But I ca n't give any promises , you understand ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I assure you that I will not give any offence to the Lady Yolande . |
| 10 | I give him credit for that , although I can not give much credit to his policy of favouring a 50 per cent . |
| 11 | I welcome the commitment that has been shown by the head of the governing body , but I can not give any hint of the decision that I will be taking by the end of February . |
| 12 | I can not give any estimate of its arrival . |
| 13 | ‘ I can not give any indication on which companies we are meeting but suffice it to say that one is trade and the other two venture . |
| 14 | ‘ You should n't give these people an inch , ’ Davyd had warned her . |
| 15 | ‘ You ca n't give three goals away like that and expect to win the match , ’ he said . |
| 16 | She would n't give any explanation , so I assumed it was to collect a present that was too big to hide at home , like a bike or something . |
| 17 | The next witness was the Duchess 's cook , who spoke very angrily and said that she would not give any evidence . |
| 18 | Four years later , when the Bishopric of Bath and Wells fell vacant , the King rejected all other suggestions and declared , ‘ Who shall have Bath and Wells but that little black fellow who would not give poor Nellie a lodging ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ One ca n't give cast-iron guarantees , just as you ca n't give me guarantees about my safety if I was to go to Birmingham , ’ Mr Thomas replied . |
| 20 | The recognition that we can not give complete holist explanations of social phenomena does not undermine the centrality of the intuition to which the doctrine , in its various forms , is a response : the sense that many properties of individuals , whether tastes , aspirations , beliefs , expectations or habits , are to an over-whelming extent formed by society . |
| 21 | As teachers … we can not give this faculty to those who do not already possess it , as a natural endowment , in the degree which literary criticism demands . |
| 22 | International mail involves the postal services of other countries as well as our own , so we can not give precise service standards . |
| 23 | One thing to be said of that is that it does not at all follow , from the fact that we can not give particular descriptions of items that fall within a set , that we can not satisfactorily conceive of and describe the set . |
| 24 | Task allocation also means that nurses become very familiar with doing particular procedures , even though they may not give much thought to why they are doing something . |
| 25 | What the Government is trying to do is to persuade the estate agents that they should n't give false particulars at all . |
| 26 | Representatives at the conference said they could n't give any details . |
| 27 | But they — oh , they dare n't give any cheek . |
| 28 | Organic farmers know it works , but they ca n't give scientific reasons . |
| 29 | And they wo n't give any guarantees , although I understand they have n't failed up to now . |
| 30 | As the guest calling himself Mr Smythe did not have legal title to the cheque , he could not give legal title to the hotelier ; therefore , the cheque would not be paid and the hotelier would suffer the loss . |