Example sentences of "to give [pers pn] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am hoping to meet some of the children before the Marathon and when the pain barrier hits me at around 20 miles I will only need to think of the courage and bravery of these young children to give me the extra incentive I need to finish the race . |
| 2 | But it was typical of Pound 's kindness , even to a potential enemy or rival , that he should have so persisted in trying to give me the right contacts . |
| 3 | In a modest attempt to amend the damage accumulated over centuries by this pernicious little fiction , I asked the children to give me the Other Version , particularly Eve 's , but Adam 's or God 's as well if they preferred . |
| 4 | I 'll go through it again once we 've seen the film , and ask you to give me the main points that came out of the film . |
| 5 | ‘ Are you going to give me the macho caveman act ? |
| 6 | Scenes are also still hand-coloured in order to give them the classic Disney feel , but developments in automatic colouring systems could well change this before too long . |
| 7 | I am there to give them the ultimate challenge and I do . |
| 8 | All my young ferrets get a similar introduction to give them the necessary experience for bigger operations within major burrow systems . |
| 9 | Runners are more conservative , instead of their heads they look to their shoes to give them the competitive edge . |
| 10 | The Syrian foreign minister who , after meeting Douglas Hurd , evoked the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 in which the British and the French secretly carved up the Middle East between them ( later using the League of Nations to give them the so-called Mandates as a cover ) , was not making some arcane and irrelevant allusion . |
| 11 | Yes If it was something like a housewife , if you sold the husband and wife , let's say , a Cover Master or Living Assurance , or the husband 's Health Master , and the wife now wants a Health Master , then nine pound sixty might be enough to give them the maximum benefit . |
| 12 | That 's why we aim to empower young people to give them the maximum choice to build their own success . |
| 13 | To give you the total reckoning of it : it is the busy man 's recreation , the idle man 's business , the melancholy man 's sanctuary , the stranger 's welcome , the Inns of Court man 's entertainment , the scholar 's kindness and the citizen 's courtesy . |
| 14 | This state-of-the-art shaver has three positions to give you the perfect shave and a trimmer for those with sideburns and/or moustache . |
| 15 | The reason for this advice is that , if you go wrong but the examiner can identify the stage at which you have gone wrong , he is able to give you the appropriate credit . |
| 16 | In this case you subtract a total of six from the eighty to give you the correct total of 74 . |
| 17 | If you 're the first correct entry out of the hat we 'll be straight on the phone to give you the good news and arrange the presentation . |
| 18 | Now , before speaking to that person , whether your boss or partner , ask your mentor to inspire you and to tell you the right time , to choose the right place and to give you the right words and the correct approach — and to help the other party accept what you have to say . |
| 19 | Having reached his destination , he remembered the message that he had been asked to give to his hostess : ‘ I travelled down with an uncle of yours and he told me to give you the following message , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Now that you are completing the preliminary studies and will shortly be embarking on the more complicated part of the syllabus , I feel that , at this stage , it would be of benefit to give you the following lessons in an endeavour to press home to you the importance and value of your continued perseverance . |
| 21 | If you persist in interrupting me , it is unlikely in the extreme that I will have sufficient time to give you the complete picture which you say you are so anxious to get ! |
| 22 | Erm I 'm in I 'm in some difficulty because this is this is a matter that 's arisen since the original matters er matters for discussion were drawn up so I 'm not able to give you the formal views of the council in that respect . |
| 23 | I said , well I 've got to give you the funny finishes for when you come to your finals . |
| 24 | It 's just that we 've received soooooo many queries asking ‘ when ’ , ‘ who ’ and ‘ … how much ’ that we 've decided to give you the full story here ( maybe NOW you 'll stop inundating us with begging letters ! ) |
| 25 | Spend your time in the way that is likely to give you the maximum return in marks . |
| 26 | We plan our holidays to give you the maximum enjoyment . |
| 27 | Your COSMOS FUNBREAK holiday is carefully planned to give you the maximum time spent at the EURO DISNEYLAND Theme Park , whilst your travel and accommodation arrangements have been sensibly selected to combine comfort and convenience at truly low prices . |
| 28 | Monitor evaluator to actually check and to give you the pessimistic side of everything to break everything down why it wo n't work why this should be done why that should be done instead . |
| 29 | Her alarmed personal physician Dr Michael Roth was forced to give her the stark warning when she refused to rest up completely . |
| 30 | If you lack confidence in your ability to give her the right kind of help and comfort , but really want to do so , you have nothing to fear , because this probably means that you are much better equipped for the task than you imagine . |