Example sentences of "giving [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recent researchers , such as H.L. Miles ( 1983 ) , claim to have had more luck but even then , giving them the benefit of every doubt , ‘ there remains a large gap between the signing of these trained apes and the speech of children who have vocabularies of approximately the same size ’ ( Griffin 1984 : 199 ) . |
| 2 | We get to know people by accepting them , by trusting them — the opposite of doubt — and by " giving them the benefit of the doubt " indeed , unless exceedingly strong evidence to the contrary presents itself . |
| 3 | If I 'd had control over everything I would have had a full Wales tour in the summer and then we would n't have needed to have the practice games , but as it is we are giving them the advantage and I wanted to try to do something about that . ’ |
| 4 | I mean , I think , I think that considering the work they , we ought to be looking at giving them the grant . |
| 5 | about analysis or me giving them the dream and I have to sort of like get out for myself what |
| 6 | That said , you can add a new lease of life to old hard disks by giving them the once-over with Norton Disk Doctor or SpinRite . |
| 7 | It aims to provide the boys with a good education , in a caring environment , while giving them the opportunity to train towards the specific goal of reaching the top 50 in the world , as professional tennis players . |
| 8 | We need to offer an education that enables them to play a positive role in society by giving them the opportunity to use their talents . |
| 9 | The expense of improving the standards of qualification and training of both categories of investigator was high , but these days newly recruited Inspectors ( Ops ) usually have a current qualification on modern aircraft and the cost is concerned merely with maintaining their currency on these types and giving them the opportunity to fly light aircraft regularly . |
| 10 | The therapist should let the client talk for a while , giving them the opportunity to relax . |
| 11 | As this is ’ Youth and Parliament ’ day , led by the British Youth Council , would my right hon. Friend recognise the importance of investing in the young , overcoming unnecessary disadvantages such as handicap , and giving them the opportunity to contribute fully to a better future for the country ? |
| 12 | sends her sincere thanks to for giving them the opportunity to hold the ball . |
| 13 | I am grateful , and can only show my gratitude by giving them the text to criticise under more agreeable conditions . |
| 14 | At the same time , I have noticed that women academics can be ruthless bullies of girl students , with the possibly laudable motive of giving them the equivalent of a good shake . |
| 15 | Confident of winning the ball , Hove brought their full-back into the line , thereby giving them the overlap , but their rather mediocre handling and some excellent shadowing by Godwin prevented them from capitalising on this for much of the half . |
| 16 | Cope argued for a new theology in which the Creator has delegated His power to living things by giving them the ability to shape the future through their purposeful response to the environment . |
| 17 | Well you , you could do the sort of token gesture of giving them the land like they did in the past , at least that 's showing what some sort of communism |
| 18 | Later , as the Shah began to get news of his own , repaid their kindness by giving them the stop press himself . |
| 19 | She enjoyed giving them the slip , as she sometimes succeeded in doing . |
| 20 | She was a very nice girl named Eugena , I think , and there were guards at the end of the hotel corridors , I remember giving them the slip and wandering around Khabarovsk on my own in a snowstorm , only to be told the next day that there was quite a bit of excitement in the city during the night because a Siberian tiger had come into the city and was wandering the streets at the same time I was ! |
| 21 | ‘ Giving them the slip . ’ |
| 22 | To care for , teach and train a child , giving them the love and discipline they need in a secure home , requires all the intelligence and skill a woman possesses . |
| 23 | But even now , I still believe that if you trust someone you 're giving them the chance to prove that they are trustworthy . |
| 24 | The major reason given for giving them the boot was the requirement for a shit-hot pitch when the Euro championships come round in 96 . |
| 25 | Writing Radio Drama — A practical course aimed at getting women started on writing plays for radio and giving them the inspiration to carry on . |
| 26 | The idea is to invite youth workers to ring up onto a party line on a certain night , giving them the theme for discussion beforehand , linking them up with other people to talk about their work . |
| 27 | To name but three : Protestants everywhere insisted upon the necessity of allowing the laity to worship in the vernacular , giving them the cup in communion , and allowing the clergy to marry . |
| 28 | Some of these patriarchs grow magnificent beards and moustaches , the whole effect giving them the appearance of an Old Testament prophet . |
| 29 | with his permission he thought it was funny he saw the funny side of it as well , but they had this big argument for five minutes cos he thought what he 'd done was right and he said Jesus , I 've been using this for three years for the training in the branch er it makes you wonder does n't it erm but if you 're gon na do practical applications you 've got ta give people relevant examples perhaps you start off basics with an example that is correct and then you start building on that do n't you then you start giving them the deviations and all this sort of stuff . |
| 30 | And your answers should be couched in the terms that you would answer somebody in the pub , in that you 're giving them the information , you 're giving it to them in a clean way . |