Example sentences of "give [pron] more [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I do now sometimes wish that I had given them more time when I did have them . ’ |
| 2 | Much charitable effort was devoted to this cause on the assumption that improved housing conditions , by removing some of the degradation from the lives of the poor , would give them more hope and greater enthusiasm for the struggle for self-help and survival . |
| 3 | Why wo n't he give me more support ? |
| 4 | You do not need a complete conventional circuit with a long downwind leg , although this will obviously give you more time in which to have a better look at the field . |
| 5 | By that time you were attracted to her , and to defer the session would give you more time to get to know her . |
| 6 | Intermediate Technology enables poor people in the Third World to develop and use technologies and methods which give them more control over their lives and which contribute to the long-term development of their communities . |
| 7 | Intermediate Technology enables poor people in the Third World to develop and use technologies and methods which give them more control over their lives and which contribute to the long-term development of their communities . |
| 8 | ‘ Give me more time , ’ replies Rufus . |
| 9 | Questions with a high and specific information content give you more to go on . |
| 10 | ‘ You 'll have to give me more time down there , Hilary . |
| 11 | Still , it is not that he wants biologists to give them more credit for maintaining the planet . |
| 12 | In order to give you more comfort and privacy during your flight , the middle seat in each row of 3 will not be occupied . |
| 13 | That metal compound on the head is supposed to give you more feel , but it does n't work for me . ’ |
| 14 | By definition this means trying to give you more work and responsibility that you can probably handle . |
| 15 | in order to get , because I hesitate to give you more work to do , you got enough work . |
| 16 | Suspicious of voluntary admissions , social workers regarded court orders as giving them more control : yet the perverse outcome of more adversarial methods was to introduce an increased element of crisis . |
| 17 | The aim of this policy was to define parental rights and incidentally , mobilise parents by giving them more influence within the schools their children attended . |
| 18 | It provides subordinates with greater job satisfaction by giving them more say in decision-making which affects their work . |
| 19 | And there are now only seven seats in a row giving you more space to be comfortable . |
| 20 | Sticks can be stabbed at you but chains can not ; they must be swung , and the heavier they are , the slower the swing — giving you more time to get out of the way . |
| 21 | There was no Honey Bee or Gas Guzzler to replicate the sea route for me , so buses and hitches and foot slog gave me more time on Mull than was strictly accurate . |
| 22 | I was still unemployed , and happy as such , for it gave me more time for the TA . |
| 23 | This freed the geologists from this task and gave them more time to write memoirs . |
| 24 | ‘ International management gives me more time to myself but do n't think I 'm always away fishing . |
| 25 | ‘ The crews have reported that they actually prefer the air system because it gives them more control over the trains as they come down the hill . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It offers users benefits through greater accuracy of input and gives them more time to respond to customers . ’ |
| 27 | This gives you more comfort and privacy during your flight , as the middle seat in each row of 3 will not be occupied . |
| 28 | The Gyroflo oven gives you more cooking space per shelf than most other ovens of the same size , and a slow economical cook facility . |
| 29 | While some paint packages provide fairly crude brushstyles , Fractal Design Painter lets you go into far greater detail ; it gives you more control over the effects of pen or brush and you can create and record your own styles . |
| 30 | To delegate tasks and , along with this , some of your power gives you more time to do other things which you regard as important . |