Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] to give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet his subjects had a right of resistance , of rebellion against him , if he failed to rule them justly and to give them due protection . |
| 2 | I 've always made a point of borrowing money from women early in the relationship so as to give them a hold over me . |
| 3 | On the other hand , many fringe bodies are located on the fringe exactly in order to distance them from the core of government so as to give them a degree of independence from public control . |
| 4 | ( 7 ) The agreement will be construed so as to give it business efficacy . |
| 5 | ‘ It needs a born Highlander to understand aright our Scottish Highlanders ’ , goes on JTR , ‘ and to gather from them all the lore they know , so as to give us pictures that will live on in after ages . |
| 6 | The trick is to keep the line direct to the float , without disturbing the float more than to give it a slight lift . |
| 7 | As well as the ability to install itself automatically and to give you back extra chunks of available memory , QEMM has the added benefit of Stealth . |
| 8 | It is wise to wash all media thoroughly and to give it a good visual inspection for foreign objects and contaminants . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps some people need a psychological or emotional crutch before their faith will come back or to give them more confidence . |
| 10 | She did n't go so far as to give me her telephone number , but I prudently copied it from the instrument at a point during the interview when she was distracted : when one of Brenda 's children had somehow slipped into the room to find a drum stacked halfway down a pile of similar toys . |
| 11 | ‘ THE shareholders must be hoping the bank has n't gone as far as to give him a company credit card ’ — Labour leader John Smith , on ex-Chancellor Norman Lamont 's new employer , Rothschilds Bank . |
| 12 | He told us not to turn around and to give him our money and jewellery or he would kill us . ’ |
| 13 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 14 | His left hand , bent with arthritis , curved over a stick on which he leant so heavily as to give him the appearance of physical deformity . |