Example sentences of "to give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look at all this new technology there is around now , and then tell me we ca n't afford to give everyone a proper home . |
| 2 | It feels that cowboys are being allowed to give everyone else a bad name by scattering illegal signs . |
| 3 | This year we have added a special category for best new garden under three years old to give everyone an equal chance . |
| 4 | They wanted to give everyone an equal opportunity at the beginning of their lives , in health and in education . |
| 5 | There is no limit to how far ahead you can book nor , often , on length of stay , although popular hostels may impose restrictions to give everyone a fair chance . |
| 6 | We will require employers to give everyone who works for them for more than eight hours a week a clear written statement of their terms and conditions of employment . |
| 7 | Neil and D. Davis did n't bother entering the comp so as to give everyone else a chance … and I ca n't really think of anyone who particularly merits a mention … oh , apart from Z-boy Fez who wore stripy skin tight trousers and looked ridiculous … do n't know the results — and hey ! |
| 8 | It 's easy to think you are Superwoman and try to give everyone 100 per cent of your attention . |
| 9 | There are plans to give everyone affordable health insurance , allow leave from work for anyone with a sick child or elderly relative to look after , and enforce a seven-day wait for anyone wanting to buy a handgun . |
| 10 | To give everyone present the opportunity of contributing information and of saying what they or their agency could offer . |
| 11 | It was a great way to start any round and the bright sunshine and colourfully dressed spectators lining the fairways and ringing the greens combined to give everyone a lift — Jack included . |
| 12 | One manager told me it would be more economic to give everyone comprehensive cover . |
| 13 | Erm the only example that I can think of where that went wrong was where there was a delay in the post but er we certainly do endeavour , it was er it was something which we 've introduced in the last erm eighteen months and it 's been welcomed by members and er it is certainly our intention to give everyone as much notice as possible . |
| 14 | Thirty years they 've trained me to give nothing away and you can still read me like a book . ’ |
| 15 | noo she 's no one to give nothing coloured |
| 16 | There was a new management , who were eager to use top-class athletes for publicity purposes but appeared to want to give nothing in return . |
| 17 | When the amendment is carried , it becomes the substantive motion and when it is put to the vote you vote against it since you would prefer to give nothing rather than £15 . |
| 18 | ‘ One of the nurses has been coming in to give me injections every day . |
| 19 | On the last day of that term , my final-year class all came up to my office to give me a ‘ thank-you ’ present . |
| 20 | ‘ You 'll just have to give me time , ’ she says . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're just in time to give me a hand . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You 're just in time to give me a hand . ’ |
| 23 | But it was typical of Pound 's kindness , even to a potential enemy or rival , that he should have so persisted in trying to give me the right contacts . |
| 24 | I could only speculate whether the industrial activity required to produce the clock radio and the telephone they wanted to give me , and all the ongoing activity to service those industries and their customers , would not cause more pollution , lead to more acid rain , and so destroy more trees than the one they planned to plant for me . |
| 25 | I recently had a liver transplant at Addenbrooke 's Hospital and still feel guilty that inevitably the decision was made to give me a liver rather than someone else whose life expectancy may have been marginally longer . |
| 26 | ‘ I hope and pray that the decision to give me the Nobel Peace Prize will encourage all those who pursue the cause of peace to do so in a renewed spirit of optimism and strength . ’ |
| 27 | But it was not enough to give me a complex , not as it would have been in America . |
| 28 | I had no one left to give me advice ’ . |
| 29 | In his usual way , as soon as the film started , George begin to give me a run down on the technical assets I might otherwise be missing . |
| 30 | ‘ Planned it for years to give me pleasure in my retirement and now it 's just getting into a mess . |