Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] to give [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This was an amazing competition and everybody enjoyed it so much Mike has promised to give them Reliant Robins for their next company cars .
2 ‘ E said I 'd got to give it another go .
3 But because the way in which the 1988 Act was drafted appears to give them overriding powers , other teachers and the ancillary staff of any school are bound to ask for consultation about any staffing changes .
4 ‘ I did promise to give you that chance , ’ he admitted .
5 Near Fontanellato they had a cousin who owned a caseificio and had promised to give them some butter and cheese .
6 You know because if you are going to ask an employer to enter into a contract between the between an individual employee , then really you 've got to give him some advantages to do that and I think that er I do n't know what the figures are or the number of final salary pension schemes that have been launched in the last couple of years , but I should think it be , be quite few and I think that there is a difficulty that if we go too far in taking power away from the er from the employer , erm then I , I can see the demise of final salary pension schemes , so I think one 's got to keep a balance there of erm you know that i that you must n't turn the employee off completely from this type of scheme .
7 You 've got to give him some sort of motivation .
8 There 's never any time , Lucy , you 've got to give it real time .
9 So you 've got to give it some heat to help the oxygen to work .
10 Er in order to do that I 've got to give you various reassurances .
11 He had ceased to give her any money .
12 ‘ In the last couple of games we have struggled to give them enough ball .
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