Example sentences of "to give [pn reflx] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we learn to give ourselves more time to pause before activity , we will slowly become more and more aware of the warning signals that our body gives us when it is under stress . |
| 2 | His eye was watching the barley while he was thinking about the outing he had decided to give himself that evening . |
| 3 | To give himself more time he asked the Bookman if he would help him with his homework . |
| 4 | Pöhl said that his decision had been made to give himself more time for his family and private interests and was prompted by " neither resignation nor frustration " . |
| 5 | His brothers Simon and Peter Eubanks ( Chris dropped the s , perhaps to give himself some breathing space ) were both fighters , but Chris took a somewhat different approach . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His suggestion that his intervention persuaded the Khmers Rouges not to disrupt the voting may be an attempt to give himself some importance . |
| 8 | He will see that a number of general practitioner practices have become fundholders , that a local NHS trust has already reduced waiting lists by 1,200 in the last year , and that a district authority is about to merge with a neighbour to give itself more clout . |
| 9 | ‘ How is Kathleen ? ’ she asked , to give herself some time and in an effort to restore the conversation to a level on which she could cope . |
| 10 | If you have problems socializing , looking better might give you more confidence but you still might have to give yourself that final push to get out there and start mingling . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The opposite applies if you feel yourself falling in backwards — pull in the back hand to give yourself more power . |
| 13 | If you have drawn an end position on the line , run down the beach a little wide to give yourself more room . |
| 14 | I think it 's a matter of giving yourself time of accepting that maybe you 're feeling low or I fe , when I 'm feeling low I say right , I ca n't cope with things I 've got to give myself some time where nothing 's gon na bother me , if I can manage it , an hour , half an hour , just doing something for myself that I really like and that helps me once I accept myself as being depressed then it helps alleviate the stress involved with it . |
| 15 | I would need another 40 yards off the tee to give myself any sort of chance . |
| 16 | In view of the dicey and rapidly deteriorating state of our physical surroundings , largely attributable to our ham-fisted handling of the powers bestowed on us by scientific and technological ‘ progress ’ , it might have been thought that there was a place in society for young persons who had taken the time and the trouble needed to give themselves some understanding of the problems we have set ourselves , so that they could help to reduce the damage done , and the worse damage yet to come . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The assembled heads of government , under CARICOM 's new chair , Patrick Manning , the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago , agreed to reconvene on Oct. 28-30 to give themselves more time to study the wide-ranging recommendations of the West Indian Commission , created in November 1989 , which on June 18 had released a major 600-page report on the region 's future . |
| 19 | After any major change it is important to give oneself some moratorium — suspend some activities — to allow feelings concerned with the loss of the old to be lived through . |