Example sentences of "he [modal v] [adv] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was held that when time for delivery is of the essence of a contract for the sale of goods ( that is , a condition ) and after the stipulated time has elapsed the buyer waives his right to cancel by pressing for delivery , converting the term into a warranty , he may later give notice setting a reasonable deadline , once again making the time for delivery a condition of the contract . |
| 2 | If the plaintiff fails to give notice of acceptance within the time limited by the rules , he may still give notice at any time before the hearing of the action begins , but an order for payment out of court is then required , and the court may order the plaintiff to pay the defendant 's costs reasonably incurred since the date of payment into court ( Ord 11 , r 5 ) . |
| 3 | He may then give Create user privilege to any of these users if he wishes , enabling them in turn to create new users ( i.e. descendants ) . |
| 4 | He wondered if he should not give his Ka a name , and call it Taheb . |
| 5 | on the value of intelligence tests or of the reliability of certain statistical devices used in these examinations , there is no reason why he should not give his views , bur he will no doubt make it clear how far the views are personal to himself . |
| 6 | He had never had a dog and now that one of his daughters was married and the other a student at drama school , he saw no reason why he should ever give one house-room . |
| 7 | He must n't give in ; he must n't allow temper or panic to take over ; he just must n't break , no matter how great the provocation . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps he 'll just give you a nice tonic . |
| 9 | Mike in the audience and he 'll probably give me a rollicking afterwards , cos I have n't prepared anything about this and I suspect I wo n't be able to speak till the red light . |
| 10 | cos if John 's taking , taking you he 'll probably give you a lift back or something if you you 're there . |
| 11 | If he comes to court , what happened at the police station does n't matter because he 'll then give direct evidence , not what he said in the police station but what actually happened on that night in the , in the estate . |
| 12 | ‘ He 'll never give his parole . ’ |
| 13 | and it jerked me , but she said it 's a muscle been pulled and it 's , it keeps spasm so she said er , could of been nasty , said I dare n't tell him , cos I says if I tell him it was his fault , I says he 'll never give me another ride , it 's again Thursday night coming back , and his car , you know the car kept , bump , bump , bump , bump , bump |
| 14 | By stealth and devotion to his craft he might yet give something back to the class and the country that produced Crippen . |
| 15 | At times Ludens wondered whether this state of affairs might not go on for ever , whether he might not give up his job and become Marcus 's — what ? — friend , secretary , servant , dog . |
| 16 | Nathan had needed no special arrangements : when very well dressed he looks scruffy — I suppose it must be a gift ; it is certainly true that he could n't give it away — and today he was not very well dressed . |
| 17 | They seem to have treated the lifters as brainlessly as they did a student with a night job in Bournemouth when he could n't give a sample despite an hour of trying on a roasting day in London . |
| 18 | Well , he could n't give a hoot , either ! |
| 19 | He could n't give a damn about anybody — that was one of the things that was so attractive about him . |
| 20 | Dickinson said he could n't give any and I should just go and get on with it . ’ |
| 21 | But he had reached a pitch where he could n't give up . |
| 22 | Er he could n't give a damn about er |
| 23 | He sounded as if he could n't give a damn either way . |
| 24 | but I saw him on the television last week , breakfast T V , not last week , week before , just before I got into work , and this woman on the television asking this stupid question , she said why do n't you put any opposition up in Parliament , and he hit the roof , but what the television did , they did n't switch off when he played bloody hell with 'em , excuse my French er President , but this is how it went , he could n't give a damn about you bloody lot , he kept the television on , it just showed his frustration . |
| 25 | But today he could n't give a fuck about the famine . |
| 26 | ‘ Because he could n't give me names , only descriptions . |
| 27 | When they asked Mr Calvert for an explanation he could n't give one . |
| 28 | He 'd never had affection so he could n't give it . |
| 29 | He did n't know , he could n't give you a theological explanation of what the kingdom of God was . |
| 30 | Alexander asked if the doctor knew what that something was , but he could not give him any answer . |