Example sentences of "give [pers pn] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't give them time for the |
| 2 | If Dad was alive he 'd give me money for the bike like a shot . |
| 3 | I 'll give you money for the assassin . |
| 4 | I would give him companions for the years to come . |
| 5 | ‘ Hopefully it will give us confidence for the Dundalk match , ’ he told me . |
| 6 | In the meditative life , we exchange the worldly things that give us delight for the full commitment of loving God above all . |
| 7 | So if you had a word with Liz I bet she 'd be delighted to give you permission for the kids to visit the old family home . ’ |
| 8 | Everyone feels healthier there , and so many visitors love the freshness of the high altitude , giving them appetite for the local gratin dishes , the carp and pike , the best butter in the world , light white wines like the Seyssel of Savoy — and of course the famous liqueur , Chartreuse . |
| 9 | They echo the theme set in last year 's CBI Business Agenda for the 1990s with the emphasis on controlling inflation , public spending , strengthening the Department of Trade & Industry and giving it responsibility for the National Economic Development Council and opposing a national minimum wage . |
| 10 | he was a development manager , I 've been giving 'em earache for the last year and a half , saying , you are falling behind man . |
| 11 | As well as giving us data for the industry , the LFS provided us with information about the narrow ( KOS ) occupational group of waiters and bar staff in which casuals are concentrated . |
| 12 | ‘ They gave me sandwiches for the journey , but I left them on my bunk . ’ |
| 13 | The officials who sent them off from the ports with the loaded railway-wagons gave them rations for the number of days which the grain would in normal times take to its destination . |
| 14 | This gave them sympathy for the victims of the slave trade and slavery and , as the abolitionist John Bowring stressed , formed a strong bond of union between them . |
| 15 | These changes gave museums the right to retain what they earned , to privatise some of their services such as restaurants , publishing etc , and also gave them responsibility for the maintenance of their buildings . |
| 16 | No satisfactory answer to this problem was forthcoming meantime , but at least the situation gave them time for the main Scots foot army to come up . |
| 17 | He said : it gives me hope for the future of the planet that people can work for a solution to poverty and problems and can enjoy life at the same time . |
| 18 | To beat the World No. 1 , even in an exhibition , gives me confidence for the future . ’ |
| 19 | A source of particular vulnerability for the agencies is that in its reorganization of the water industry the 1973 Water Act gives them responsibility for the management of the great majority of sewage treatment works , which in many areas are themselves significant — often principal — sources of pollution . |
| 20 | Roffman and Purdy have quite rightly stressed that Vidor 's traditional populism gave him sympathy for the underdog , but prevented him from moving towards any collectivist political situation . |
| 21 | Lord Acton gave it expression for the first time in 1887 , in a letter which Tolkien might have been interested enough to read — it is in a strongly anti-Papal context . |
| 22 | So people gave us money for the stamps that we put on and other people gave us donations . |
| 23 | They gave us ammunition for the guns , and many people were shot . " |
| 24 | It had given us stability for the past forty years . |