Example sentences of "give [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All citizens need a highly concentrated er episode in their lives where all they do is think about what is right in the circumstances and this will give them good practice , good training to being an enlightened voter . |
| 2 | Do n't give them sole selling rights , because you will have to pay them commission even if you sell your property privately . |
| 3 | ‘ I would have had no objection to telling them the position , in all honesty we could have done that and I may give them advance warning next year . ’ |
| 4 | It will give them crucial details about his shoe size and probable height and weight . |
| 5 | First came the minstrels , yelling war songs , and when they had finished they tore off their mantles and threw them down before the Empress , saying now that they had fought for her such clothes were no longer worthy of them and would she give them new ones ? |
| 6 | instead , arranging activities together will help the young person to know that you care and will give them other things to do . |
| 7 | The saga , which was illustrated with his own naïve pen-and-ink drawings , had its origins in the compassion he had felt for the sufferings of the animals in the past war ( ‘ If we made [ them ] take the same chances as we did ourselves , why did we not give them similar attention when wounded ? ’ ) and in the letters about an imaginary horse surgery that he had written home from the front to his two children , Elizabeth and Colin ( the latter of whom habitually called himself Dr Dolittle ) . |
| 8 | The social worker can give them emotional support too , strengthening any network of support that already exists from relatives , friends and neighbours , or trying to form one for them if they are in a position of isolation . |
| 9 | Edward Miall argued in the 1840s that giving the vote to the working class would give them that sense of citizen responsibility which they were said to lack , and that as a result the middle class would be able to " lead them almost whithersoever they please . " |
| 10 | We will give them that chance . |
| 11 | Their reward must be such as may give them that rank in society which so important a trust requires . |
| 12 | What he did not know was that the Government , by the next day , would be anxious to retreat from the formula , and that the miners ' executive , having dispersed itself from London , would give them all day in which to do so . |
| 13 | we could happily give them fifteen minutes that would take up forty five minutes |
| 14 | I think we 're gon na have , we 've all got and face the fact that we 've got ta give them increased union activity before the ballot . |
| 15 | It 's a high-risk enterprise for us to , to pontificate about local radio , particularly as we have three as it were local radio representatives here , and we shall give them ample opportunity to confirm or deny the sort of things we 're saying . |
| 16 | And she said , Oh I 'll give them two biscuits each . |
| 17 | You could give them two minutes to check with their neighbours what they think has happened . |
| 18 | ( ‘ I 'd give them six months , survival when they leave here , ’ the doorman had told her . ) |
| 19 | Formally but icily they replied that they " do not desire to interfere with any views which he may have towards improving his position in life , but they expect that he will give them six months ' notice of his intention to resign the mastership of the School " . |
| 20 | ‘ If you are really dropping people anywhere along that coast I would n't give them forty-eight hours before they are signing a statement for the public prosecutor . |
| 21 | Meanwhile the SERC will not employ people in universities : it will give them short-term contracts only . |
| 22 | Their resilience and in part fortuitous revival may have been due to the slightly more permissive policies of the Popular Front government in Paris — thousands of political prisoners were released although thousands more remained in gaol — but much more seems to have been the result of the ability to rebuild an organization from the bottom up even though the advice and instructions they received from international communism meant acquiescence in policies which did not give them pre-eminent appeal as a revolutionary party . |
| 23 | But it would give them much-needed practice in monitoring lower limits in future . |
| 24 | Eastern European countries were likewise keen to join or at least to negotiate with the EC association agreements which would give them preferential access to EC markets . |
| 25 | We ask them to read the policy , we explain bits in the booklet , we ask them to telephone us if there 's anything they 're not happy with or they 're unsure about and we will clarify that , and also we do give them fourteen days in which to cancel , so if if once they 've actually got the policy , if they 're not happy with it , or they 're not happy with the answers that we give , then they 're more than happy we 're more than happy to refund . |
| 26 | by logical deduction , which would give them absolute character . ’ |
| 27 | Also , tell all those 16-bit owners to stop making fun of all us 8-bit owners or Miss W will give them 20,000 lashes ( hope you do n't mind ) . |
| 28 | I mean the only thing that an appeal fund like that should do is to give the widows and dependents of the the dead of the platform , it should give them immediate money to tide them over until they get their compensation which they need . |
| 29 | We must give them suitable materials to work with — suitable tools — brushes , paper , paints , etc . |
| 30 | And to stimulate their observation we must give them suitable subjects , within their personal experience — and we must see that they get the experience of looking and observing the visual world around them . |