Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] to give [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But ‘ For A Child ’ only has a slight tempo shift , a trumpet solo and a blast of flugelhorn to give it some extra zest , and it 's simply not enough . |
| 2 | The gentlemen in Virginia were in no position to do this ; they had very little money to spend in a gentlemanly way and no particular experience of colonization to give them any other claims to respect and obedience , as nothing got done and about 60 of the 100 initial settlers died in 1607 . |
| 3 | ( In Scotland the Crown at the moment does not have the power to appeal against sentences which it regards as too lenient , although moves are under way to give it such a right . ) |
| 4 | And now we have the solid-state valve complete with LED to give us that warm glowing feeling ! |
| 5 | She preened her elegant nose , turning her head slightly in order to give them all the benefit of her profile . |
| 6 | They begged him to desist , in order to give them some words of edification , and for two consecutive hours he proceeded to give them excellent exhortations , while at the same time never ceasing his writing — and all the while what he was writing was not the same as what he was speaking . |
| 7 | In order to give you some idea of the boundaries of the propositions these are numbered in the extract given above . |