Example sentences of "give them [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm it may have been deliberate in that how the Par Party could n't be seen as too radical in order to maintain er as broad a support as possible and allow the peasants to erm give them leeway to do what they wanted to do , but erm it 's quite interesting though that whatever the Communist Party did , people were going to respond in which ever way they wanted to whether or not there was a law there , but they still had to sort of erm establish their legitimacy . |
| 2 | The important point is that it should be used at a time when for some reason pressure is to be taken off members of the class — putting them in what is virtually a ‘ spectator ’ role can give them time to recover from what had perhaps been inadequate non-projected work . |
| 3 | There is no one else on the Tory Benches , so perhaps we should give them time to get someone in to act as the Minister 's runner . |
| 4 | In spite of these provisions , not infrequently Courts conveyed the view that the Act did not give them power to make orders with a condition of access . |
| 5 | It pointed out that a prisoner might die , before the information had been extracted , if the torture was too severe : ‘ One must give them pain to make them respond quickly , to make them afraid , not to kill them , but to bring them close to death . ’ |
| 6 | However , their ability to tangle with the issue in the first place , and their success in doing so , will give them confidence to face those struggles when they arise again . |