Example sentences of "[noun] give [pers pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All hens give me asthma , ’ said Mrs Totteridge with finality . |
| 2 | The princess sang along with old favourites such as The Streets Of London and My Liverpool Home — plus the hospice hymn Give Me Oil For My Lamp . |
| 3 | Words give us power over every other creature and thing in the natural world . |
| 4 | In a friendly atmosphere look around at leisure and allow our experienced designers to give you advice and original ideas . |
| 5 | ( " Is groundsel nice , mother ? " ) and Hazel , touched to think that he must be dreaming of old days , rolled over on his side to give him room to settle again . |
| 6 | This one had understood that Aurae Phiala was dead , and immense , needing no meretricious human yardstick to give it proportion . |
| 7 | There was then a nervous wait for Ray Younger who finished in 35th place as fourth scorer to give them victory by two points over North Belfast with Albertville a further two points adrift . |
| 8 | He had already blown out in the first two matches yet still went for a practice to give me information on a different stretch for which I was grateful . |
| 9 | President , with a very heavy heart and bitter disappointment for all our people out there , who are depending on the Social Chapter to give them dignity , safety and a reasonable standar standard of living , I reluctantly withdraw this motion , but I will say this , we live to fight another day . |
| 10 | It was also decided that the Master , Wardens and Assistants should pay for a key giving them access to the Garden . |
| 11 | He may also have obtained from Popes Leo III and Paschal I privileges giving him control of all the monasteries he had acquired . |
| 12 | This dodecamer is a good example for study , firstly , because an excellent agreement with the NMR data gives us confidence in the fine structure that has been proposed . |
| 13 | The Royal Air Force gave me emergency rations , advice on medical supplies , and a day at RAF Cranwell to learn how to navigate with a bubble sextant . |
| 14 | He never rose above the rank of lance-corporal , but a posting as an orderly room clerk on the east coast gave him leisure to write short stories of army life , published in Horizon and other periodicals . |
| 15 | The North-East gives them room to expand and offers their employees a higher quality of life . |
| 16 | They were free spirits working for the gods ; the pharaoh gave them food , clothing and shelter . |
| 17 | The snow gave them proof of what they always feared : the winter-hungry foxes were biding their time , ready to raid any hen-house which remained unfastened at dusk . |
| 18 | The car gives us freedom ; the car clogs up roads . |
| 19 | They returned to Tunbridge Wells via Cheltenham , where Lulu Harrington gave them tea and her fulsome apologies for being unable to remember the full name and address on Beatrix 's fourth letter . |
| 20 | Swiss vote gives us hope |
| 21 | Swiss vote gives us hope |
| 22 | Where the charge laid before the magistrate did not constitute the offence over which the statute gave him jurisdiction , affidavit evidence could be introduced . |
| 23 | Ewen obviously knew his way , but although Neil gave him room he made no further attempt to break free , or even to reach open water . |
| 24 | That 's one thing , at least the Provies give us credit for doing this job . |
| 25 | Special programmes must be provided where needed to address the problems that refugees face through their past circumstances to give them equality of opportunity and to avoid eroding their talents and initiative . |
| 26 | A degenerate male voice exhorted its hearers to give it love or let it die in peace . |
| 27 | They were of some kind of fibre , painted glossy chestnut , now dimmed and dulled , with bands of wood to give them strength . |
| 28 | There 's a main board , with various part-time notables to give it respectability , and an Executive Committee of Directors , consisting of Ingard and one or two of his pals , who actually deal with what goes on . |
| 29 | ‘ I can remember going down the Speakeasy with The Clash to look for models to give us cocaine and blow jobs . |
| 30 | As the oil majors integrated forwards into petrochemicals , some chemical companies such as Du Pont bought oil companies to give them access to captive sources of petrochemical feedstock . |