Example sentences of "[vb infin] them give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young Gareth did n't want them to give up , they said , but Mr Vickers senior told him you 'd be all right even if you had got lost . |
| 2 | On second thoughts he also sent one of his aides to fetch blankets as well , for some of the ladies did not seem to be very decently attired and , although they did not look very enticing , he still did not want them to give his men ideas . |
| 3 | She assured the women she addressed that suffragists did not want them to give up ‘ one jot or tittle of your womanliness , your love for children , your care for the sick , your gentleness , your self-control , your obedience to conscience and duty ’ . |
| 4 | There he was to search the Scriptures and the writings of the early Fathers and write a book which would be distributed to the universities and would enable them to give their advice as to whether the Pope had authority to enable a man to marry his deceased brother 's wife . |
| 5 | " Princes cede towns , even provinces , but all the ability of the most adroit negotiators can not decide them to give up a rank which they believe to be their right " . |
| 6 | They may well love the new baby , but that does n't stop them giving it a tweak when your back is turned . |
| 7 | Universal services would be available with a level of resourcing that would permit them to give appropriate support to individuals within a common overall structure . |
| 8 | And now my family have offered forty-nine cattle to his family , but the government will not take them to give to his family in England . ’ |
| 9 | We do n't encourage them to give up their other sports , we just want them to have the same chance in tennis . ’ |
| 10 | we should encourage them to microfilm them and then we should then encourage them to give us a a , a |
| 11 | Moreover , their use of their disparate conceptions does not just lead them to give contradictory answers to common questions such as ‘ Were Athenian slaves a class or nut ? ’ |
| 12 | Nurse prescribing will save the waste of time that he has described when district nurses have to go backwards and forwards to doctors , and will allow them to give their time to more beneficial activities , rather than wasting petrol on such journeys . |
| 13 | ‘ She 's in a terrible state and she wo n't let them give her sedatives because of the baby . ’ |
| 14 | Do n't let them give you that line . |
| 15 | Yeah , but basically from , from that programme all , all the er , you can see all the resources were really being used all week and , but I had a problem when we came to do the bedrooms that er , you can there , we ran out of work for the decorators to do er removing this thing , once you 've removed and then I managed to squeeze in , but where the second decorator 's erm up to room twenty-three but rather than erm have just one gang than , and not , not using as many as the resources as we possibly could I let them gave the second gang a few rooms that they could actually squeeze in without interrupting I 've let them do up to room twenty-three and then and then basically the carpenting and they have to come in after everybody else has done what they Monday morning basically we just decided that we really needed more resources the earlier sequence of events to , to get so we were getting to so whether we 've been given |
| 16 | They disparage themselves for doubting and in the same breath defend their doubt like a treasured possession which nothing could persuade them to give up . |
| 17 | ‘ Princes will cede towns , even provinces , but all the ability of the most adroit negotiators can not persuade them to give up a rank to which they believe themselves entitled . ’ |
| 18 | An engineer knows how different elements will behave and can combine them to give a desired effect . |
| 19 | For many foster parents the strain imposed by the rights of natural parents and extra paperwork required under the Children Act which came into force last year could cause them to give up , she went on . |