Example sentences of "give [adv prt] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , yes Erm one once you 've done that if you could give in diaries for the day and then your time is your own . |
| 2 | Her husband was due to retire then and they had decided that they would both give up work at the same time . |
| 3 | She must , however , give up work before the start of the sixth week before the EWC if she is to get SMP for the full eighteen weeks . |
| 4 | According to Soviet sources , however , the US side had softened its previous position that Najibullah would have to be removed from power before elections could be held , and was now considering a compromise under which he would remain President but would give up control of the military , the security police and the media to non-partisan bodies . |
| 5 | It is simply not on to believe that those at the top will willingly give up power for the overall health of society . |
| 6 | Paul suggested a way of getting rid of this passivity , arguing that lecturers should give out notes at the beginning of lectures and then : |
| 7 | We give more money to the Common Market budget than we give in aid to the third world . |
| 8 | There are many plants that give off scent during the day but which seem to take on fresh strength in the evenings . |
| 9 | Lord Owen and his new UN colleague , Thorvald Stoltenberg , Norway 's former foreign minister , have not given up hope for the Vance-Owen peace plan . |
| 10 | It was a more acute problem by the time of 2 Peter : chapter 3 of that Letter is specifically directed towards those who have given up hope in the Return of Christ . |
| 11 | The Governor has effectively given up control of the Bermudian police to the local government , though he still retains the right to be consulted . |
| 12 | Only when the shipper parts with his original is he deemed to have given up control of the goods . |
| 13 | He had , of course , given up cigarettes by the time he had gone into the clinic , but as a result he had abandoned the puritanical principles inculcated into him in youth and had started eating sweets instead ; and this meant that he was putting on weight . |
| 14 | Part delivery to the buyer does not prevent the remainder being stopped in transit unless the part delivery is made under such circumstances as to show an agreement to give up possession of the whole of the goods . |
| 15 | This benefit allows you to deduct the years when you were required to give up work from the normal qualifying period for a basic pension and so , in effect , shorten the number of years when you would otherwise have been required to make contributions . |
| 16 | The air force general leading the mutineers refused to give up control of the base even as the seige of Makati ended . |
| 17 | The air force general leading the mutineers refused to give up control of the base even as the seige of Makati ended . |
| 18 | Experts are urging everyone to give up salt for the day and thereafter cut down on salt to ensure a healthier heart . |
| 19 | It is ironic that this dual aspiration , on the one hand , to give back autonomy to the socialist writer to produce works which balance the twin exigencies of socialist ideology and literary form , and on the other , to generate as a consequence a fuller , richer , more complex depiction of reality , marks , in fact , a return to the spirit of Nizan 's understanding of socialist realism in France in the 1930s . |
| 20 | Timothy Sainsbury , the Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , on March 7 insisted in the British House of Commons that the UK had no intention of giving up sovereignty of the islands and that the issue was not on the political agenda . |
| 21 | But he blew his chances when he said that giving up sovereignty to the European Commission was like giving in to Hitler . |
| 22 | But none of them will be giving up hope of the £102,000 top prize — and nor will Nick Faldo on 12 under and Seve Ballesteros on 11 under . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm content to go into the army , and I 'm definitely against giving up territory to the Arabs . ’ |
| 24 | An advertisement appeared in the Scotsman drawing attention to the sale of " the whole valuable stock of letter-press and printing materials belonging to the Caledonian Press , who are giving up business with the premises No. 31 Hanover Street " . |
| 25 | The one in front pedalled furiously , head low , and then , head up , let the bike ride , face lifted , up to the sky , the sky that was giving out stars as the earth put on flowers . |
| 26 | They feared that well-meaning people giving out money to the poor would merely encourage the ‘ non-deserving ’ poor to pursue their lazy and irresponsible ways . |
| 27 | We 're not giving out mortgages at the moment |
| 28 | In consequence of the agreement , Mr. Mahmoud gave up possession to the landlord . |
| 29 | I gave up work at the salon eight weeks before Isha was born and so I had the space and time to just do the hair work that I really wanted to do . |
| 30 | Brooklyn born , he gave up academia in the 70 's to work in theatre and write plays . |