Example sentences of "[pron] to give a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he s he met me on the road one day and he said to me , Miss , it would pay you to give a decent price for it , he said to me . |
| 2 | Since general public speaking courses are not preparing you to give a particular speech , but to give speeches in general , the first task is simply to get you to stand up in a room full of people and ask you to speak about anything you like for three minutes . |
| 3 | He watched me intently , eyes narrowed against the sun which struck into this side of the courtyard , waiting for me to give a reasonable answer , which was foolish of him . |
| 4 | You , Mr. Speaker , would not permit me to give a full answer to the right hon. Gentleman 's question , which reminds me of a minute that I sent out , when I went to the Home Office in 1987 , to the then permanent secretary . |
| 5 | And that is why , as Mr said , I think they ought to be allowed to produce some sort of advertising pamphlet , and get their act together , because if they 're going to go and compete out there they 've got to be prepared for it , and we 've got to allow them to give a decent presentation , at least have a decent glossy brochure to push round , so at least they can say what they do , because they will never compete when they are privatised unless they get it . |
| 6 | In October 1962 the choir felt it was difficult for them to give a strong lead to the congregational singing because of where the choir was placed and it was recommended that the Trustees should take expert advice on the rearranging of the pulpit area of the church . |
| 7 | Andy has a large input to the design side , having the enjoyment of being able to turn ideas in to reality and then use them to give a financial return . |
| 8 | or a hospital and ask them to give a good check , what they told us , they dare n't seemed to want to bother with people now |
| 9 | Finally , Fig. 1.11D shows a bone exposed to acid ground water ( pH 3.5 ) in a sphagnum bog on Dartmoor : acid etching has penetrated the bone along open pores and enlarged them to give a sieve-like appearance . |
| 10 | An engineer knows how different elements will behave and can combine them to give a desired effect . |
| 11 | Naturally experience enables one to give a reasonable estimate — but we are constantly being taken by surprise , both by those who manage to overcome their problems amazingly quickly and by others who take longer than was initially estimated . |
| 12 | Since then I 've been in contact with Kate Noble of Age Concern and we 've arranged for her to give a short presentation at the next meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council on Thursday 21st January at 7.30 p.m. in Scorton School . |
| 13 | By then , Aitken 's pulse rate had decelerated enough for him to give a rational appraisal of the day 's events . |
| 14 | At the very height of the paroxysm , he made a movement with his knee which caused him to give a great cry which she , lost in the abandon of the moment , construed as passion , but was in fact a loud , animal yelp of pain . |
| 15 | I figured a man like Truro Daine , who is well known for being up to his knees in dirt year in year out , would have a lot of use for their product , and decided to call on him to give a heavy pitch for the latest range of fine-bristled superswift specials . |
| 16 | One can therefore say that the courts retain the power to read statutes in the light of general principles , the only question being whether the particular court will be able to find or invent a general principle that will enable it to give a sensible effect to the statute . |
| 17 | What we have shown in this section is that the contextual features suggested by Hymes , supplemented with the index of co-ordinates proposed by Lewis ( put forward , remember , with quite different purposes in mind ) do enable us to give a partial account of what the undifferentiated term ‘ context ’ may mean . |