Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | Henry was so infuriated by the childlike look of loss on his face he had half a mind to give him some . |
| 10 | People , of course , have the capacity to give their own meanings to their and other people 's actions . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Medirace needed a trading vehicle to give it some cashflow to stay in business . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You need a new routine to give you more time . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Local authorities are to be given the leading role in the organisation of community care , but the decision to give them this responsibility was taken with the greatest possible reluctance and only after every other possibility had been explored . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's very generous of you , ’ he told her , raising his head to give her another slow kiss . |
| 25 | So that each member of staff got a chance to give her own opinion , the staff were interviewed individually . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | An unexpected message of good luck from Phillip Schofield , star of the London production , spurred on the cast to give their all . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , ’ I said , looking round for the waitress to give us more coffee , ‘ I still hate vomit . |
| 30 | ‘ Many of these have not yet been registered as charities and we will be asking local authorities to check deeds , take legal advice and , if appropriate , register these pieces of land with the Charity Commission to give them some long-term protection . ’ |