Example sentences of "give [pron] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Winning the John Moores would have given me just the confidence I needed . |
| 2 | But this new research has given me just the ammunition I need . |
| 3 | ‘ The hotline has given me just the motivation I needed to get moving . ’ |
| 4 | Hundreds of organisations have realised that an independent weather service can give them exactly the information they need , when they need it and for a realistic cost . |
| 5 | Ca n't say fairer than that , except if th'bist good to me as well I might even give thee back the two shilling . ’ |
| 6 | Have you any idea at all , can you give me even the slightest clue , as to where her daughter might be ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Hopefully , this money will give someone else the chance to have a wonderful companion like I have in Olivia , ’ said Trudy Welch , who gives talks on behalf of the branch . |
| 8 | If you use mirror from floor to ceiling and at right angles to a window or opposite a window it will give you twice the light and twice the view . |
| 9 | ‘ That reminds me , I must give you back the two pounds you sent me . |
| 10 | Folly found herself curiously reluctant to look up , as if by meeting his eye she might give him back the power he held over her . |
| 11 | Volvo expects to produce 300 of those , which would give it roughly the same 60 per cent market share it enjoys in the heavy bus category after its takeover of Leyland Bus in 1988 . |
| 12 | They will give us exactly the colour we want , especially if we dovetail them with the bassoons and thus make use of the deep low notes of the second horn . |
| 13 | A rapid look at The Times newspaper for this Monday in April might give us just the slightest inkling of the minutiae of English life on a most ordinary of ordinary days : Dickens was completing David Copperfield ; Bass 's India Pale Ale could be had for 33s. per 18-gallon cask ; Hampshire Breakfast Bacon would cost you 7½d. by the half side , while Captain Reid 's ‘ Walls End ’ coal was 19s. a ton . |
| 14 | I told Patterson to follow normal procedure and he got one of the girls in the postroom to ring Airborne and say there was a package for delivery a.s.a.p. and give them just the district , EC 1 , where it was going . |
| 15 | He said yeah so he said lend us your keys a minute give them back the keys , and he says and you 're finished ! |
| 16 | ‘ Give me back the gun , ’ he said tightly . |
| 17 | I know what , I 'll swop that for a pound coin , yeah , and you give me back the pound coin and plus that fifty P , yeah ? |
| 18 | The law classifies breaches of contract into two categories , first , breaches of a less serious nature which entitle the innocent party only to damages and secondly , more serious breaches which give him also the option to regard the contract as repudiated . |
| 19 | I give him back the open paper . |
| 20 | Well that 's right , give it away the first part of the question |
| 21 | Interestingly , they use the same term for aggression as the Buid , but give it precisely the opposite moral evaluation : ‘ A maisug person is combative and not deterred by physical danger and risk , one who has strong feelings and is not afraid to express them … |
| 22 | Our lord taught us to pray er er give us this day our daily bread but we all know when we 've read our commentaries that the word epusios means of tomorrow , give us today the bread of tomorrow . |
| 23 | And give us back the pride and the credibility that we once took for granted as trade unionists but we allowed to slip away from us , and make us a force to be reckoned with , and send this government a message , we 'll never allow anyone at Westminster to tell us how to run the G M B , we 'll never allow anyone at Westminster to prevent us from protecting our brothers and sisters and we 'll no never ever allow anyone at Westminster to defeat the trade union movement . |
| 24 | I still wanted to see more of the world , and as he was offering to give me double the usual pay , I managed to persuade my wife to let me go . |
| 25 | ‘ Candy , there must be three hundred people in the club tonight — would you care to give me just the faintest inkling who you 're talking about ? ’ |
| 26 | You know not the innocence you abuse so freely Would to God that instead of a woman and my sister , any man breathing had dared to give himself half the airs you have done . |
| 27 | I am ready to give you again the beautiful face of |
| 28 | I mean what it needs it that random pixel degradation across the page to give you back the letterpress look . |
| 29 | Mr Field believes he would win easily , and once returned to the Commons would ask the parliamentary party to give him back the Labour whip . |
| 30 | They set about reinforcing and extending their property to give it much the appearance it has today , apart from some modern restoration . |