Example sentences of "give [art] [adj] [noun pl] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have never given the Olympic Games a thought I am just plodding my way through the season , racing here and there , ’ he said . |
| 2 | ‘ We only release bitches who have been spayed and if they are still only puppies we give the new owners a date to take them to the vet . ’ |
| 3 | Give the new faces a chance ! |
| 4 | You know the score , give the urban kids a slice of country life . |
| 5 | I think we need to give the current players a chance this year . |
| 6 | When I was at school I was so good that I was n't allowed to answer the questions , but had to give the other girls a chance . ’ |
| 7 | Even though his first impressions have not been positive he is prepared to give the new laws a run for their money . |
| 8 | He used his final speech to appeal to voters to give the Liberal Democrats a mandate to ‘ unleash the power of the British people ’ . |
| 9 | This was a liberal middle-class reformist cop-out guaranteed to give the right women a step up in the power stakes as well as provide appeasement for male consciences which were getting a bit ragged at the edges from the constant battering of Irish feminists . |
| 10 | To give the farcical complications a kick-start , Poiret asks us to believe that a man , finding himself in this predicament , would try to pass the bimbo off as his daughter from a former marriage , and that the girl , required to account for her surprise visit , would blurt out that she was pregnant . |
| 11 | Mr. Gilbert deliberately hung around at closing time to give the three men a chance to go away . |
| 12 | Time to give the old legs a rest on a steep descent into the beautiful Farndale Valley |
| 13 | Several indicated they would be looking to Mr Lawson to give the Tory voters a reason for enduring the pain of higher mortgages . |
| 14 | And let's not forget Western Samoa , Canada and Italy — with the last two really giving the All Blacks a fright — and Ireland , who were so near to bringing off a great quarter-final victory . |
| 15 | The shareholders had clearly manifested an intention to sell their shares and could not continue with the sale without giving the other shareholders a right to exercise their option under the articles . |
| 16 | For the cyclist however it was a ‘ challenge ’ in more ways than one , partly because the distance was much greater than is usual in such events , thus giving the motorised modes a head start on the outer-suburb uncongested sections , and partly because traffic was lighter than usual on that particular day . |
| 17 | It is no good giving the United Nations a role and wanting it to carry out these measures on our behalf but not giving it the means to do so . |
| 18 | Their heroic resistance first on the Bataan peninsula and then at the fortress of Corregidor gave the Western Allies a breathing space , but on 6 May the Philippines had to be surrendered . |
| 19 | Five Nations regulars Gavin Hastings , Craig Chalmers , Tim Rodber and Jean Baptiste Lafond were among Back 's victims yesterday as rampant Leicester gave the multi-talented Barbarians a stuffing of festive proportions . |
| 20 | One of her first arrivals at Heathrow gave the British tabloids a field day as she climbed off a long-haul flight from Australia in the same travel-weary outfit she had boarded in . |
| 21 | Another break for bad light gave the fast men a breather . |
| 22 | Under King Charles II Bishop Cosin turned the hall into a chapel after the dilapidations of the Commonwealth general , and gave the medieval windows a clerestory . |
| 23 | He never gives the other males a chance . |
| 24 | One Brownie picks out a card then gives the other Brownies a clue about the country . |
| 25 | It 's difficult to imagine whole group work which does n't also involve small group work at some point , but with the advantage that whole group work gives the small groups a focus , a purpose and a context to their work . |
| 26 | It is first heard and seen when the dancing-master gives the Ugly Sisters a lesson . |