Example sentences of "the [noun sg] to give [pers pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what Alastair 's saying is information technology er gives us the opportunity to give you information down er a telephone line . |
| 2 | Each panel would have a chunk of joist at the base to give it weight , and the rest of the studwork would be of timber . |
| 3 | And after that we shipped — me and another feller , an Irish feller , a Belfast man — we shipped in an owd schooner called the Mount Blairie : it was an old thing that had been ashore at — in a little shipyard ; and they 'd done her up during the winter to give them men a job . |
| 4 | A group of children were using some workcards designed by the teacher to give them experience of working independently and helping one another over difficulties . |
| 5 | ‘ I am Signora Romagnoli , ’ Wilson said calmly , ‘ and I am your landlady who you called in the middle of the night to give you food and there it is . ’ |
| 6 | I will go even further while I am in an expansive mood and say that we often look at what happens north of the border to give us inspiration and we then follow . |
| 7 | We 're negotiating with the polytechnic to give them permission to build a hostel on the John Boscoe playing field . |
| 8 | Of course today there are no real guns — only a radio ground station playing the role to give us practice in procedures . |
| 9 | Trust the colonel to give him chapter and verse . |
| 10 | A huge head it had on it with rows of teeth and this long sleek green body with all the fins sort of pushed down towards the tail to give it speed in the water I suppose . |
| 11 | She took her coffee from him and shifted across the bed to give him room to lie down . |
| 12 | The idea of investigations or , more importantly , an investigative approach , had to have the backing of my peers within the profession to give it respectability . |
| 13 | Mr Faulks said of the application for the house loan : ‘ What we say he was doing here is , being unable to obtain loans in any other way , he is pretending to be selling his house to this fictitious person in order to get the bank to give him £43,000 on the strength of his house which they would otherwise not have given him . ’ |
| 14 | We can employ our talent around the world to give us news across a much wider perspective . |
| 15 | However , on their first night she felt like a patient strapped to an operating table without the benefit of an anaesthetic ; and the surgeon was not only blind but expected the patient to give him directions . |
| 16 | Start off dahlia tubers indoors or in the greenhouse to give you shoots for cuttings to increase your stock . |
| 17 | There are two dangers to be avoided , if you can avoid them , in the choice of chambers : reading with someone who is too busy , who can not spare the time to give you instruction , except possibly over a snack lunch , and reading with someone who has not enough work to give you proper experience . |