Example sentences of "give [pers pn] the [adj] name " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Commonwealth War Commission do n't know how to get hold of the War Graves Commission The Commonwealth War Graves Commission can give us the information we want provided we can give them the christian name of the person and the regiment . |
| 2 | And I 'll give you the old name for it . |
| 3 | Er … forgot who this is … so let's just give him the popular name ‘ Local ’ , when in fact he probably is n't . |
| 4 | ‘ Give me the British names . ’ |
| 5 | Now she was dead , give her the honourable name , ‘ Mother . ’ |
| 6 | The first flowering plant I saw was a familiar one — the purple mountain saxifrage , Saxafraga oppositifolia to give it the scientific name . |
| 7 | The Shone Soil and Water Conservation and Afforestation Project ( to give it the full name ) is situated in Sike Awraka , Southern Shewa . |
| 8 | Jacqui had only given him the Christian name . |
| 9 | It was Li Chao who first suggested I should have a Chinese name and I was both grateful and honoured when in the course of time he gave me the three-character name of Tdong Lao Fu which meant , literally , ‘ Portrait of Happy Man Climbing Mountain ’ . |
| 10 | I met a man in the glen who seemed to know every spot , and gave me the Gaelic names of all the corries . |
| 11 | ‘ My sister Mary gave him the stable name ‘ Arthur ’ . |
| 12 | FORMER Goon Harry Secombe , who has had a second home in Majorca for the past 15 years , reckoned he had finally been accepted by the locals when they gave him the Spanish name El Gordo . |
| 13 | Unbeknown to all , though , Harry 's bird arrived in Lisbon in 1975 , where it 's Swiss owners gave it the wrong name a nom-de-plume if you like . |
| 14 | Scientists did not help matters when they gave it the generic name Oreamnos , meaning ‘ mountain lamb ’ . |