Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] to give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his bold substitution — putting on Merson after 70 minutes to give his side a third orthodox striker — provided the missing ingredient . |
| 2 | The doctor suggested that she might avoid milk , cheese and butter for a while , to see if this had any effect , and prescribed some tablets to give her extra calcium . |
| 3 | Empty phrases to give you the illusion that it 's Adam who 's holding you , and not me ? |
| 4 | However , I 'm not too impressed by the pickups and need some replacements to give it a bit more OOMPH . |
| 5 | I 'll take the little one home with me for a few days to give you a break . |
| 6 | that we should not have been asked to comment on … the way the curriculum would be affected by these materials and how the school itself would be looking at its way of using them , other than perhaps information skills where we could help them with commercial publications to give them some ideas . |
| 7 | My secretary , Judy Fella , had used her not inconsiderable charm to persuade British Airways to give herself and me free seats on a Concorde as a publicity venture . |
| 8 | He gave me some answers to give you about your questions yesterday evening . ’ |
| 9 | The inference is that the ritual remained as a memory in the Middle Ages , if not in actuality , and was linked with historical personages to give it a little more authenticity . |
| 10 | The close association between the visual and the cultural may explain the reluctance of some teachers to give it much attention . |
| 11 | They will be able to send you some materials to give you a plan for getting started and to help you think through the two important questions : |
| 12 | David Booth took 30 seconds to give them the lead , taking advantage of a defender 's clearance which deflected freakishly off an onrushing forward and into his path . |
| 13 | A well aimed flower bomb soon put paid to the battling vegies , but only for a few seconds to give you time to pass , save the children and leave quickly . |
| 14 | A well aimed flower bomb soon put paid to the battling vegies , but only for a few seconds to give you time to pass , save the children and leave quickly . |
| 15 | Though data are not available , it may well be that socio-economic disparities were narrower in 1974 than before as a result partly of the Contract of Employment Act , 1963 , which required employers to give their employees notice of one to four weeks according to length of service , and partly of the increased power of trade unions . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I heard afterwards that Butler left also , and that Lord Salisbury , as senior Cabinet Minister , invited the remaining Ministers to give their opinion about who should succeed to the vacant and , in the circumstances , not very alluring post . |
| 18 | To summarise , the problem was to build a machine that could examine enough positions in three minutes to give it some protection against the clumsiness of its evaluation functions . |
| 19 | Interested groups such as businessmen , shoppers and environmentalists will be given three months to give their views . |
| 20 | I remember when she took us to the pantomime in town , and we saved up all our sweets for three weeks to give her as a present . |
| 21 | This state-of-the-art shaver has three positions to give you the perfect shave and a trimmer for those with sideburns and/or moustache . |
| 22 | They still believed that they had put a 2Mb memory upgrade into one of these machines to give it a 4Mb of RAM . |
| 23 | Roe , already third , fourth and fifth in European tour events this year , said : ‘ I birdied the first three holes to give myself a flying start and never really looked back . ’ |
| 24 | We 're also trying to find young , female African-American film-makers to give them a shot . ’ |
| 25 | But again the government retained extensive administrative powers to give it a free hand in dealing with radical writers and journalists . |
| 26 | The week-long camps are sponsored by Digital Equipment Company , and are open to students aged from 14 to 17 years to give them practical experience of the computer applications they will come across when they take up their careers . |
| 27 | and I put twenty thousand pounds to give , I , I mean I took it that she would use her allowance , er I took it erm as twenty thousand pounds to give his wife as high a possible gross earning |
| 28 | For knitters who use their own personal blocks but would like more inspiration for patterns , CML 's artworks collections are fantastic value for page after page of chartered designs directly traceable to Brother electronic sheets and easily used by all knitters to give their work an individual look . |
| 29 | ‘ It appears that the Conference endeavour to provide fixtures to suit the distance , and there are enough North West-based teams to give us most of our midweek games , ’ said Mr. Clapham . |
| 30 | We need three or four decent players to give us a chance of getting promoted . ’ |