Example sentences of "[noun sg] give [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Be prepared to train twice as hard on your weaker side and each time you feel fed-up through lack of progress , switch to your stronger side to give yourself a boost . |
| 2 | He began to note down suitable thoughts and epigrams on pieces of office copy-paper , not really with the intention of learning them off by heart , but with the idea that he might put them in his jacket pocket and touch them from time to time during the programme to give himself reassurance , knowing that if the worst really came to the worst he could take them out and refresh his memory . |
| 3 | They were well aware that before the English visit , and in an attempt to give himself some room for manoeuvre , Napoleon III had wooed the Tsar . |
| 4 | His suggestion that his intervention persuaded the Khmers Rouges not to disrupt the voting may be an attempt to give himself some importance . |
| 5 | She popped a toast soldier into her own mouth to give herself the strength to deal with her father . |
| 6 | Given a large enough supply of machine catalogues and enough flexibility of mind to give yourself different problems , an inventive woodworker could spend the entire winter playing this game . |
| 7 | As a result , three prominent members of the Medellín drug cartel gave themselves up [ see pp. 37914 ; 37957 ] . |
| 8 | And her father 's answer to the question given himself had been : those tests at the secretarial college were making his daughter nervy ; and the quicker they were over the better . |
| 9 | Parkin made a long sigh to give himself time to think . |
| 10 | Some people do not feel ready for this , and need to find voluntary or part-time paid work to give themselves a feeling of worth and to supplement an inadequate pension . |
| 11 | Two-year campaign to give himself up |
| 12 | I dreamed I saw a boy giving himself airs — preening himself like the Queen of Sheba . |
| 13 | Those who only ‘ play ’ at astrology are protected to a certain degree by their own reluctance to give themselves fully to it . |
| 14 | The military , economic and political elites have different reasons for existence and different goals , yet they all share one common goal — the desire to give themselves mutual wealth , prestige and power . |
| 15 | Having gained the initial advantage , the company can then price at a level to give itself a profit but still deter rivals , who face higher costs from entering . |
| 16 | SPACE SUCCESS : St Simon 's School at Hazel Grove launched their ‘ Space Venture ’ to raise money to give themselves more space in the school — a new mobile classroom . |
| 17 | I have the discretion to give myself up . |
| 18 | Perhaps Marcus had read her previous reticence to give herself completely to him as boredom with the scenario of casual individual relationships which were par for the course for their contemporaries , and had laid on a partner-swapping party to titillate her interest . |
| 19 | Some salamanders in Central America exploit the possession of such a water-living larva to give themselves two alternative ways of spending their adult lives . |
| 20 | BORIS BECKER last night gave himself the perfect 25th birthday present , demolishing Jim Courier to become ATP world champion and end a disappointing year in triumph . |
| 21 | Be prepared to centre yourself in revery , to give yourself up to your memories just as your sleeping self gives itself up to a dream . |
| 22 | While the empire was being gradually reduced to a fraction of its former size , the court gave itself over to pleasure and sensuality . |
| 23 | Cheshire , who needed a victory to give themselves a fighting chance of winning the North West Group , scored 185 thanks to an knock of 66 from Stockport 's Andy Hall . |
| 24 | It 's also a good idea to back off three to five per cent every second or third week to give yourself more rest and sufficient recovery . |
| 25 | It was whilst working my way through this , often writing in the column headings for several pages in advance to give myself the illusion that I had completed more than I actually had , that two important suspicions that had lain dormant for some time rose up and took on the aspect of horribly credible hypotheses . |
| 26 | The TPLF has recently transformed itself into the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Movement to give itself more national credibility , but its core remains the Marxist-Leninist League of Tigray , whose political model seems closest to the late Enver Hoxha 's Albania . |
| 27 | " He will share your bed and possess your body , " Maria Candida had said when asked what it meant for a woman to give herself to her husband . |
| 28 | The Prussian Hussars , who had waited fifty yards from the bridge to give themselves room to charge any attacker who broke through the infantry , spurred forward , but the General ignored them . |
| 29 | Halting outside the little store , she took a deep breath to give herself courage before pushing open the door , then grimaced as the bell gave an important little ping which alerted everyone inside to her presence . |
| 30 | Mr Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski , the previous state secretary for foreign trade gave himself up early yesterday to the police in West Berlin , where he is now under arrest . |