Example sentences of "give [adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wife Doña Ximena , said he , these damsels who have served you so well , I will give in marriage to these my vassals , and to every one of them two hundred marks of silver , that it may be known in Castille what they have got by their services . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ If we deal with it ourselves we could only give out punishment of 28 days ’ loss of remission . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps I 'm hoping to meet a man rich enough to keep me in comfort so I can indulge my every whim and fancy and give up work for good , ’ she said drily . |
| 4 | My second is never give up hope of eventual restitution . |
| 5 | Unable to do anything in bed but lie and whimper so temporarily give up search for progressive chemist who keeps contraceptives out on display . |
| 6 | IPSWICH Witches have not given up hope of 23-year-old Pole Miroslaw Kowalik riding in tomorrow 's Star of Anglia meeting at Foxhall Stadium ( writes Elvin King ) . |
| 7 | However , this doe snot apply so much to our other son , Robert , who is a private music teacher in Glasgow , so we see quite a lot of him and his wife and their baby son , who arrived just over a year ago , when we had given up hope of any more grandchildren . |
| 8 | Frederica did not attempt to ascertain the fumbled name , having given up interest in stray new people until it was clear that they were of real concern . |
| 9 | were reluctantly constrained to order the defendant to give up possession of 336 , Stocksfield Road to the plaintiffs because of the earlier decision of the Court of Appeal ( Kerr and Woolf L.JJ. ) in South Northamptonshire District Council v. |
| 10 | ‘ My family has always helped me out , but it 's getting hard , especially as I have to give up work for four months . ’ |
| 11 | It is n't necessary , to give up work at 60 or 65 and there are agencies which specialise in finding either paid or voluntary employment for people after they have officially retired . |
| 12 | Deteriorating eyesight compelled him to give up painting in 1975 , but he lived to see the beginning of a major revival of his reputation . |
| 13 | When blindness compelled him to give up farming in 1966 he learned Braille and carried on with his public duties , being much in demand as a witty public speaker . |
| 14 | The potential of a cell ( or other ‘ system ’ ) to give out water to another cell or solution . |
| 15 | Erm , may I just add also , that , that it 's , it 's my feelings that the security aspects of rural post offices , the face that we 're giving out advice into given problems , er , I know in my particular area , we had a , a post office erm , kitted out , erm , there were tremendous costs involved in the security aspects in that particular post office or sub-post office . |
| 16 | This theme of giving back control over civic affairs to local people and moving away from the grip of town halls and utility or service administrations was one investigated in the community development projects of the 1970s . |
| 17 | ( Interestingly , he gave up athletics for one year after leaving school — and the influence of teachers — because ‘ there was no one to say , ‘ go into this and I 'll help you do it . ’ ’ |
| 18 | In order to expose what appears to be a series of monstrous , incomprehensible legal blunders , Mr Mathew gave up work in 1983 . |
| 19 | When doctors gave up hope of any recovery , they sent him home to be with Altovise when he died . |
| 20 | He gave up motorcycling in 1929 when his love of cars got the better of him . |
| 21 | He gave up training in 1892 , and his son Tom Cannon took over the Danebury stable . |