Example sentences of "to give [noun prp] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | England without half the team they will be expected to send out against Poland at Wembley on September 8 survived to give Taylor the respite he needs . |
2 | Any Palestinian who speaks will have to have the approval of the PLO , but this will not be said publicly because we do n't want to give Shamir the chance to withdraw , which we think he 's looking for an excuse to do . ’ |
3 | Any Palestinian who speaks will have to have the approval of the PLO , but this will not be said publicly because we do n't want to give Shamir the chance to withdraw , which we think he 's looking for an excuse to do . ’ |
4 | Scattered amongst the infinite variety of trees and plants are picturesque villages whose white-walled cottages have blended into the light-coloured landscape to give Ibiza the nickname ‘ La Isla Blanca ’ — The White Island . |
5 | INVESTORS still willing to give Fisons the benefit of the doubt should look at the pharmaceuticals group 's annual report for 1991 , in which the most striking themes are elephants and flowers . |
6 | A week ago her plan had been to give Travis the slip and catch the first flight out . |
7 | A speedy , sixth-minute break saw Roberto Paci intercept Warren Neil 's desperate back pass to give Lucchese the lead . |
8 | Two minutes after the break , Dwight Marshall 's optimistic 25-yarder beat Dorking keeper Lee Orkney 's dive to give Plymouth the lead . |
9 | According to Gerald of Wales , who gives the most vivid , if not the most reliable , account of these days , Henry was then required to give Richard the kiss of peace . |
10 | ‘ I 've been busy trying to give Frank the backing he deserves , but we , the board , ca n't go into the dressing room and pick the side . |
11 | She was determined not to give Richmann the satisfaction of seeing her cry , beg or show fear . |
12 | His boyish , open face with its look of disciplined idealism was vaguely familiar to Massingham , who suspected that he might have seen it in a police recruitment pamphlet , but decided in the interest of harmonious co-operation to give Underhill the benefit of the doubt . |
13 | But that was not enough to give Mussolini the bargaining leverage he wanted . |
14 | He sent on Dublin and Mick Norbury and , within 30 seconds of the restart , they combined to give Cambridge the victory which , after four successive draws , took them back to second in the table . |
15 | Robert knew , but he was n't going to give Hasan the satisfaction of knowing that he knew . |
16 | You 'll have to give Glen the money though . |
17 | It helped to give Hartlepool the lead , with the move begun in their own area and completed by Paul Baker 's firm header on Paul Dalton 's cross . |
18 | The fathers failed to give Philip the satisfaction of a full-scale condemnation : the Order was suppressed by an administrative act of the pope 's and not by the Council . |
19 | And in particular , she did not like at all that he had felt it necessary to give Lubor the instructions he had about her . |
20 | With the match looking as though it would end goalless at the interval David Tate broke down the right and from his cross Ged Kennedy forced the ball home to give Eppleton the lead . |
21 | Her mother , Valerie , had returned to teaching after her family were off her hands , but she had been forced to give up her job to give Jennifer the care she needed . |
22 | The result was enough , however , to give Australia the trophy . |
23 | [ T ] here was no longer , in my view , any solution except to give Algeria the right to self-determination . " |
24 | The plan was designed to give France the initiative in German affairs which had been slipping away from her . |
25 | In their view , two things were required to give Britain the prospect of security in the atomic era : first , the atomic bomb itself ; and second , the means of delivering it at strategic ranges . |
26 | It was worth saving for its own sake , not just to give Jenny the peace she deserved . |
27 | ‘ To this day I have not played much Chinese music , and certainly not a concerto , and so I thought that this would be a good opportunity to explore that — a least to give Hsiao the encouragement to write one . ’ |
28 | Much as she might have wanted to help , Diana was in no position to give Charles the attention he needed . |
29 | The question was designed to give Klepner the opportunity to express a contrary view to Sanders , which , in effect , was that there should be no further new investment in the United Kingdom . |
30 | Let's all do our best to give UNICEF the funds they need . |