Example sentences of "[conj] give [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only when he is on the ship bound for England away from mental setbacks such as this at court , that give Hamlet the courage to return to kill Claudius . |
| 2 | Fortunately , perfecting her roll was the breakthrough that gave Lesley the confidence to fight for her own to go on the top of the waves and start experimenting with hotdogging tricks . |
| 3 | It was the availability of local steel and the advent of steam power that gave Glasgow the incentive to dredge and widen the river in order to transform its few old boatyards into one of the world 's great shipbuilding centres . |
| 4 | It was this that gave Anselm the hint that peace would not bring him freedom to exercise his episcopal functions . |
| 5 | One poet wrote a poem called the Hound of Hell in which he pictures Francis Thompson , the na name of the poet , in which he he pictures Je , er God pursuing men and women down through the corridors and labyrinths of time , down throughout their life , relentlessly pursuing and no matter how much you try and give God the slip , there he is , he will pursue you , he will seek you out , he desires to ca , for you to come to know him , and you can not get rid of God that easily ! |
| 6 | The black-eyebrowed albatross was a frequent visitor to the Parsee , and gave Gould the chance to try out a crude but innovative experiment — one of the first attempts to tag and monitor a live sea bird . |
| 7 | The only classy Lions ' back move of the second half came when Tony Underwood and Gibbs made sharp breaks and gave Clement the chance to burst through tackles for a converted try . |
| 8 | Oxford old boy John Aldridge was looking for his 40th goal of the season … it came just two minutes after Durnin 's … and gave Aldridge the eclub record he was looking for . |
| 9 | Charles resolved to travel to Rome to settle the feud , and gave Leo the protection of Frankish warriors to return home in the meantime . |
| 10 | After Oldsmobile 's factory burned down in 1901 , Ransom E Olds was forced to turn to contractors for the assembly of his single cylinder engine , and gave Leland the opportunity to prove his theory . |
| 11 | Mr McQueen joined them at table , and gave Johnson the kind of local knowledge he loved — the economics , way of life , problems of such an existence . |
| 12 | The 102nd Russian submarine fleet at Petropavlovsk has been alert ever since the international courts overruled the Soviet appeals and gave GenTech the right to conduct its surveys in the area . |
| 13 | A variation on Mamet 's last directional effort , Things Change , it creates a predictable but effective comedy from the convicts ' progress to ‘ salvation ’ , as real priests and ordinary folk take Penn 's stumbling idiocies and de Niro 's low-rent growls for down-to-earth spiritual lessons , and gives Jordan the space to pump up the religious allegory the film opens in prison Hell and ends with a life saving plunge into regenerative waters . |
| 14 | We oppose the privatisation of British Rail , but will allow private operators access to the rail network , while giving BR the freedom to raise investment capital on the open market . |