Example sentences of "give [pers pn] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . " |
| 7 | We will give them that chance . |
| 8 | Their reward must be such as may give them that rank in society which so important a trust requires . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But it would give them much-needed practice in monitoring lower limits in future . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | by logical deduction , which would give them absolute character . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Vic , raised in Darlington , and partner Bob Mortimer , a former solicitor from Middlesbrough , are already being hailed as the new Morecambe and Wise , and a BBC2 series would give them wider exposure . |
| 18 | Searching through a variety of sources will give them a wider perspective on their study area , and may also give them contradictory evidence . |
| 19 | Excuses abound : world markets have collapsed , diet-conscious Europeans are eating less red meat , some people in Britain fear it will give them mad cow disease . |
| 20 | ‘ The one about absence making the heart grow fonder of the girl next door , ’ Lucy quipped , the words slipping out before she could give them sufficient consideration . |
| 21 | We have had more debates on these issues , but it is insulting to suggest that our partners do not give them sufficient attention . |
| 22 | B and K claimed that the Board should give them sufficient information to enable them to answer the case against them . |
| 23 | As I explained earlier , I nearly threw my oil pastels away in frustration , but I thought I would give them another try with a different approach . |
| 24 | It 's gone to it 's got to a stage where he made that statement which he very very much means , he will never ever give them another album of his to market worldwide . |
| 25 | Persuasion based upon religious belief can also be much more compelling and the fact that arguments based upon religious beliefs are being deployed by someone in a very close relationship with the patient will give them added force and should alert the doctors to the possibility — no more — that the patient 's capacity or will to decide has been overborne . |
| 26 | Do you ever give them any money ? |
| 27 | Of course I do n't give them any money ! |
| 28 | We rattled them from the first minute and did n't give them any breathing space . |
| 29 | The Sandrat did n't give them any resistance as they took her weapons away from her . |
| 30 | ‘ Since I did n't give them any praise , Annie and Lizzie had to do the praising instead . |