Example sentences of "[vb infin] to give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( And the Children 's Bill currently going through Parliament will seek to give them more rights and protection . ) |
| 2 | We will seek to give our judgment quickly . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I did promise to give you that chance , ’ he admitted . |
| 4 | Before he went out , he made me promise to give you this . ’ |
| 5 | THE parents of a little boy who died after being knocked down while learning his Green Cross Code told last night how he made them promise to give his organs to suffering children . |
| 6 | I bought your Christmas present today and I ca n't wait to give it to you . |
| 7 | Blake told his superiors at MI6 that in order to win the confidence of the Russians he would need to give them enough genuine information to convince them of his sincerity . |
| 8 | He would need to give them further reasons for allying with him . |
| 9 | It 's er , obviously , you 'll need to give them a briefing , so they can play the character , but to the end of degree , 'cos you 'll need to respond to things that they say , as indeed , you 'll have to back in influencing situation , back in your own department , back in your own ground . |
| 10 | If you want your salary or wages paid directly into your bank account , you will need to give your employer details of your branch number and your account number . |
| 11 | If planning to start at the windward end of the line , remember that boats to leeward do not need to give you room . |
| 12 | I 'll need to give you an antibiotic as well Jane |
| 13 | I I 'll need to give you some drops to use in that |
| 14 | I 'll , I 'll need to give you some special stuff to loosen that . |
| 15 | Would I need to give you a lift home do you think ? |
| 16 | I 'll need to give you an antibiotic as well Jane |
| 17 | But he did n't need to give it to anyone else — no one else was flawed in the way Denis was , no one else 's loyalty gave grounds for doubt and therefore for the most unsavoury of tests . |
| 18 | ‘ Why choose to give something so precious to me ? ’ |
| 19 | But the state , from this point of view , is a nebulous entity ; and while men may choose to give their allegiance to it , it is to the government that they are required to give their obedience . |
| 20 | I must choose to give it all back to you and to feel the happy liberation of unpossessiveness . |
| 21 | Erm I think that Jane 's erm journey towards independence is erm where she moving towards a position where , if you achieve a certain kind of independence , you can then choose to give it up . |
| 22 | His Honour said that J 's dyslexia ‘ would appear to give him significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of children of his age ’ , and that J 's high intelligence was ‘ neither here nor there ’ in relation to the specific cause of the learning difficulty . |
| 23 | If there 's nothing wrong with your curtains except that you 've grown rather bored with them there 's quite a lot you can do to give them a new lease of life . |
| 24 | What can I do to give you an orgasm ? |
| 25 | As this is not a book on careers in advertising , the best thing I can do to give you an idea of the sort of people you might conceivably find in an agency is to refer you to the books by Norman Hart and Felicity Taylor ( see page 232 ) which describe them all very comprehensively . |
| 26 | And as a special treat we have lined up jokes from the last people you would expect to give you a laugh , ranging from the dreaded tax inspector to an undertaker ! |
| 27 | He did not hesitate to give his own views on the subject . |
| 28 | Nor did Belli hesitate to give his chitarrone-player jagged leaps and , as he confessed , ‘ lots of quavers ’ ( molto serrati di crome ) . |
| 29 | This will begin to give your staff experience . |
| 30 | I know I could n't begin to give you the kind of life you 'd have with Dunbar , but I 'd do everything in my power to make you happy . ’ |