Example sentences of "give [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're wearing , if you 're wearing headphones right you do n't stop everybody 's bound to work out and everyone lets you wear them , everyone 's bound to work out you 've been given permission to wear them . |
| 2 | It was not until Lady Diana Spencer was formally engaged to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales that she was given permission to call him ‘ Charles ’ . |
| 3 | Then some lads from the Cameron Highlanders were given permission to bury him . |
| 4 | The group left , reportedly after being told by Papua New Guinea officials that the Indonesians would be given permission to remove them by force . |
| 5 | The driver was given directions to take her to the doctor that Julius had contacted . |
| 6 | If the Foreign Secretary is ready to say that he will veto such a treaty , I shall give way to let him do so . |
| 7 | I stress that I understand that the regulations will be general and that highway authorities will be given discretion to interpret them in the most appropriate way . |
| 8 | because the situations dealt with by professionals are unique , the professional must be given authority to solve them and to be responsible for the outcome . |
| 9 | After the introduction of Nicholas ( 3190 – 220 ) we turn back to the carpenter , of whom , too , we are instantly given details making him a perfect fabliau character : he is married , newly and ill-matchedly so , and thus perhaps green and inexperienced as well as old and jealous : The fabliau formulae themselves produce an unjust stereotyping in this case , as the carpenter 's jealousy , although referred to again by Alison ( 3294 ) , is nowhere evident in his words or actions in the tale . |
| 10 | Giving blood makes her go all woozy , it seems . |
| 11 | ‘ Ca n't stand giving pupils work they find easy , ’ said Mr Fractor , thumping a huge pile of papers on Endill 's desk . |
| 12 | My treatment of intonation is based on the belief that foreign learners of English at advanced levels who may use this course should be given training to make them better able to recognise and copy English intonation ; the only really efficient way to learn to use the intonation of a language is the way a child acquires the intonation of its first language , and the training referred to above should help the adult learner of English to acquire English intonation in a similar ( though much slower ) way — through listening to and talking to English speakers . |
| 13 | Staff from senior management and those involved in caring for patients should be given training to assist them to make public presentations about the activity of the health service and the staff who work in it . |
| 14 | Throughout the course we were given tests to help us analyse our weaknesses as listeners . |
| 15 | The children were then to be given clues to help them solve the mysteries and they were to tell the Pink Panther ( who was not privy to this information ) who had committed which crime . |
| 16 | Er in fact I never gave telephone call it 's no good telling me to do something |
| 17 | You remember I gave Ollie to tell you the new terms of … |
| 18 | He was being taken to a special boarding school when he gave teachers escorting him the slip . |
| 19 | Well that 's what I 'm saying , you know drugs erm , well you 're looking at society where we 're given drugs to make us feel better . |
| 20 | If the partners unanimously or by a prescribed majority feel that one of their number should no longer remain with the firm they are given power to require him to retire at the end of a period of notice , typically six months or not less than six months to expire at the end of the firm 's accounting year . |
| 21 | It may sound obvious , but take time to explain to your child that we all become ill from time to time , and we are given medicine to make us well again . |