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Example sentences for "give something"

  • And to give something back to their communities and their country in return.

  • Now, to get the most out of your community, you have to give something back.

  • Wouldn’t I give something to know what I have got to go through with now?

  • I wonder if Silas had any reference to this when he said that there were two men in the world who would be willing to give something nice to get hold of me!

  • I'd give something to know really why we are boxed up here," said Chumbley, after a long silence.

  • I'd give something if I could speak to the poor fellow in his own language and tell him that we are not ungrateful for all his kindness.

  • I'd give something to know what time it is," whispered Poole, and he took a step nearer to his father to ask him how long he thought it would be before day.

  • I'd give something to guess what old Burgess means to do.

  • Lor', I'd give something to see him on his lordship's Mad Sal.

  • I'd give something if I could take her away from him, and keep her at home, children and all.

  • I know I'd give something to be back in the old 12th," his thoughts reverting as he spoke to the days when he was a subaltern in a fashionable Hussar regiment.

  • I wish I had now, I'd give something for a mount.

  • Gad, I came out here to get away from English mists and fogs, but I'd give something now to feel one of those same old yellow fogs in my throat again.

  • Even if he goes in for what they call popular subjects, he takes from the many and gives to the few; he ought to give something back to the crowd--he ought to give everything back.

  • You've been trying to give something more of her character than you found in her face; is that it?

  • I don't believe we can take much from the common stock of life in any way, and find the thing at all real in our hands, without intending to give something back.

  • Why, of course you’ll give something,” he declared, as if there could be no doubt on that point.

  • You know your own business, and I’m sure you’d like to give something.

  • I'd give something to know that Gil Carr's visits had all been to see yon wench.

  • I'd give something to know how those two came so near being drowned," said the founder, as he walked over the little bridge with Sir Mark.

  • I'd give something," said Sir Mark to himself, "if that meddling priest had left the scoundrel to die in peace.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "give something" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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