Example sentences of "[noun] to give [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not the authors ' intention to give it this gloss . |
| 2 | A new Quality Performance system was set up for the person rowing the boat to give him more incentive to work harder and become a key performer . |
| 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 | But ‘ For A Child ’ only has a slight tempo shift , a trumpet solo and a blast of flugelhorn to give it some extra zest , and it 's simply not enough . |
| 6 | It 's very hard to explain , but these people are all on the extreme left and were seeking a poet to give them some sort of standing . |
| 7 | He handed me a toffee , climbed into his car , beckoned me to sit on the other front seat for a few minutes , and removed the celluloid sidescreen to give us more fresh air . |
| 8 | I must say it 's a pleasure to give you that |
| 9 | There simply was n't enough stock in the shops to give them any real choice . |
| 10 | Henry was so infuriated by the childlike look of loss on his face he had half a mind to give him some . |
| 11 | People , of course , have the capacity to give their own meanings to their and other people 's actions . |
| 12 | On the first Wednesday morning of every month — with the exception of the months in which Easter and Christmas fell — it was the custom for the incumbent pastor to give his own account of the massacre , or read out an account left by a predecessor . |
| 13 | Medirace needed a trading vehicle to give it some cashflow to stay in business . |
| 14 | But the way he did it was with the same connections he defied , and to get into serious racing in his early days , he got a bank to give him credit and a sponsor to give him some backing : though he had n't , of his own , a sou in the world . |
| 15 | Once documented the data can be rearranged in a way that reveals how you can reorganize matters to give you more time . |
| 16 | The shaft needed to come through two bearings to give it that stability . |
| 17 | Only when the children feel less threatened will they be able to relax , and it 's up to you and your husband to give them that security . |
| 18 | One thing for certain , Sanders , you wo n't be coming here to the Mother of Parliaments to give us all the benefit of your profound wisdom . |
| 19 | You need a new routine to give you more time . |
| 20 | In fact , the chances are you 'll have to go back and pare down your heroes to give you enough points for Shamans . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm gon na get Mickey to give us some money ! |
| 22 | I thought when I first came here that I hated what she was trying to do to me and then I came to see that the clothes , the manners , the society , all those things were part of a process , a process to give me enough confidence to do what I liked , not to live in eternal dread of insignificance and error . |
| 23 | Except my agent had a will of sponge , so instead of telling the charity committee to go take a bath in some sulphuric acid , I 'd find myself trekking off to Bodmin to give my all for the local branch of the Cats ' Protection League . |
| 24 | The gentlemen in Virginia were in no position to do this ; they had very little money to spend in a gentlemanly way and no particular experience of colonization to give them any other claims to respect and obedience , as nothing got done and about 60 of the 100 initial settlers died in 1607 . |
| 25 | In the long term , alternative political and policy positions can be weakened — there will be no government framework to give them any institutional voice or credence . |
| 26 | We 've put together a fabulous selection of new hairstyles to give you some sparkling inspiration . |
| 27 | ‘ Do you disapprove of us , my angel ? ’ she asked , exalted by wine and overbearing , and took him down to the kitchen to give him some of the leftover chicken . |
| 28 | As we come to the end of this Parliament , will the Secretary of State take this opportunity to give us some insight into the Government 's long-term policy which has been formulated during the past 13 years ? |
| 29 | I was not involved at all until the open meeting , which I attended and where I was pleased to have this opportunity to give my own personal views . |
| 30 | Erm , as we know , Bullitt was a member of the delegation and an intimate of , of Wilson , so the book is er co- authored , so in a sense we should know as we 're paying for , for all of it , because er , obviously , he relied on Bullitt to give him all this biographical information , and er , consequently what you see Freud doing in this in this book is , is er trawling through , as it were , the things that Bullitt told him , that , that Bullitt had found out , to erm , draw a kind of psy psychoanalytic portrait of Woodrow Wilson , that erm , tried to explain his problem , why did he not deliver the goods as it were . |