Example sentences of "a [noun sg] to give [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry was so infuriated by the childlike look of loss on his face he had half a mind to give him some . |
| 2 | It 's very hard to explain , but these people are all on the extreme left and were seeking a poet to give them some sort of standing . |
| 3 | I must say it 's a pleasure to give you that |
| 4 | But the way he did it was with the same connections he defied , and to get into serious racing in his early days , he got a bank to give him credit and a sponsor to give him some backing : though he had n't , of his own , a sou in the world . |
| 5 | I thought when I first came here that I hated what she was trying to do to me and then I came to see that the clothes , the manners , the society , all those things were part of a process , a process to give me enough confidence to do what I liked , not to live in eternal dread of insignificance and error . |
| 6 | So that each member of staff got a chance to give her own opinion , the staff were interviewed individually . |
| 7 | Against the background that people expected support for an elderly person to be reciprocated in some fairly immediate way , the pressure to exclude older people from the labour market was accompanied by a pressure to give them some independent means of support which would prevent their having to rely on their children or other relatives . |
| 8 | He will see that a number of general practitioner practices have become fundholders , that a local NHS trust has already reduced waiting lists by 1,200 in the last year , and that a district authority is about to merge with a neighbour to give itself more clout . |
| 9 | I I have only one point I would like to raise , Mrs , and this is whether or not er you are in a position to give me any comments er in relation to the er colony of Great Crested Newts in this pond . |
| 10 | When we have resolved the matter we shall be in a position to give them all the reassurance they can ask . |
| 11 | In this regard , the teacher will know the pupils who need more help , and , as in all classes , will be in a position to give them any extra help needed in order to achieve the learning outcomes . |
| 12 | If it be a duty imposed by law upon a party regularly subpoenaed to attend from time to time to give his evidence then a promise to give him any remuneration for loss of time incurred in such attendance is a promise without consideration . |
| 13 | They 've got sort of mind you they have their own training sort of regime as well , which in some ways is , means it 's quite good experience because it is structured in , in a , in a way to give you some training , whereas of course if you just go in to do a job then erm how much sort of training you get varies a bit . |
| 14 | , our Sports Council Liaison Officer , has asked us to co-operate with a survey to give her some ammunition to fight on behalf of all the Movement & Dance organisations . |
| 15 | You may wish for a partner to give you all that , but what are you prepared to give of yourself ? |