Example sentences of "to grant [pers pn] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We start in ten days and I firmly rely on the goodness of Providence to grant me a safe and prosperous passage . |
| 2 | Four of the biggest British companies in the waste-to-energy business ( generating power from waste ) have formed a lobby group to persuade the government to grant them a subsidy . |
| 3 | AT THE end of the Treta , or Second Age , Dasaratha , the childless king of the Solar race , performed the Aswa-medha sacrifice of horses and begged the gods to grant him a son . |
| 4 | The king 's original intention , goaded by the Pope 's refusal to grant him a divorce , had been to effect a greater lay control of an uncertain church . |
| 5 | To do that , on May 18th the prime minister , Leonid Kuchma , asked parliament to grant him a range of extraordinary powers : to rule the economy by decree , control the central bank and the state privatisation body and have jurisdiction over the president 's satraps in the regions . |
| 6 | For the law to grant him a defence in these circumstances would be to grant a licence for sexual exploitation . |
| 7 | It revoked the decision taken two weeks earlier to grant him a visa , on the grounds that he had refused to postpone until after the May 20 elections his planned departure from Switzerland with his wife Queen Anne and eldest daughters Princess Margerita and Princess Anne . |
| 8 | She must persuade him of her good intentions — for it had never crossed her mind that she would not repay him — but she must also try to convince him of the seriousness of her situation and persuade him to grant her a bit of leeway . |