Example sentences of "[vb infin] give [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His silence encouraged her to be even more frank , and , looking to where the moonlight caught the line of his strong jaw , she said , ‘ I know you appreciate the help I 've given by stepping in to take Stella 's place , and for that reason I doubt that you would give me the sack — or tell me to go . |
| 2 | What forms do I need to give to my employees ? |
| 3 | In addition , you should keep a supply of form SMP1 which you will need to give to those employees who can not get SMP from you . |
| 4 | So I settled for the fact that you ca n't devote the time which I feel you would need to give to the job . |
| 5 | Force O'Neill to CONCEDE MORE THAN HE WANTS TO OR THAN HE THINKS HE CAN DARE GIVE without risking overthrow by the more reactionary elements among the Unionists . |
| 6 | In fact , on all the windows wired up now , and I walked up to him , and I just said , would you like to give to me , son , and he turned round and looked at me , and to my great surprise he gave it to me . |
| 7 | Part of the advice one would want to give to any young person today is to thoroughly know your business by working on the factory floor . |
| 8 | We are surprised that the guidance makes scant reference to the importance of strategic planning guidance , particularly since it stresses the close scrutiny which the Secretary of State will want to give to large scale or controversial proposals , which must be referred to him . |
| 9 | And also I 'd like an indication as we go through of the relative weights that you might want to give to individual criterion . |
| 10 | And I think above all the message that we would want to give to you is , Do n't let the media happen to you . |
| 11 | But companies can stop giving at any time ; under the traditional system of covenants , they were committed to giving an annual donation for four years . |
| 12 | The other was the offspring of doting , bourgeois parents , who should have given off the opposite kind of vibrations . |
| 13 | What I would have given for a sesame bap . |
| 14 | Thus , when the police officer comes to make his decision he must do so knowing of the defendant 's preference and any reason the defendant may have given for it . |
| 15 | One upper-class motherless boy moved to live with a great-uncle who ‘ treated me with the same affection which he would have given to a son . |
| 16 | She lavished upon them the sort of affection she would have given to her family had there been any . |
| 17 | A huge £50 million has been raised for charity since the race started in 1981 and runners can pat themselves on the back for all the financial help they have given to worthy causes . |
| 18 | It was not an answer he would have given to many people , but he looked on Edna as an equal . |
| 19 | On occasions when talking about the case , I have been asked what advice I would have given to Profumo . |
| 20 | Had he done that — and this is advice every sensible lawyer would have given to him — he might have been able to return to public life without the long and painful period of atonement to which he was exposed . |
| 21 | It may have been enacted beforehand by the witnesses , so that they testify to what they have actually witnessed ; alternatively , the organiser of the mock trial may simply have given to each witness a statement of his evidence , which he is expected to remember . |
| 22 | You come here talking to me about Vicente Ortiz , about a document he may or may not have given to Tristram and which Tristram may or may not have sent to Beatrix . |
| 23 | It will frequently be necessary for it to know whether the employee was being advised at any material time and , if so , by whom ; of the extent of the advisers ' knowledge of the facts of the employee 's case ; and of the nature of any advice which they may have given to him . |
| 24 | This file should contain the responses the user would have given to the prompts had the system been used interactively , as described below . |
| 25 | This file should contain the responses the user would have given to the prompts for the relevant options had the system been used interactively as described below . |
| 26 | This file should contain the responses the user would have given to the prompts for the relevant options had the system been used interactively . |
| 27 | I can not venture to say whether the shake-up which we thought World War two might have given to Germany has done it . |
| 28 | An artist has perhaps given as much time to a single major work as a composer might have given to a sonata or whatever it may be . |
| 29 | The second is to test understanding by inviting someone else to summarize and check that their summary accords with the one you yourself would have given at that stage in the proceedings . |
| 30 | ( a ) Bill of costs Your firm 's bill of costs should be prepared in accordance with the quotation that you will almost undoubtedly have given at the commencement of the transaction . |