Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] to give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to know that sort of thing otherwise I would n't know how hard to fire the retro-rockets to give you a gentle landing . |
| 2 | ‘ It is easier for the institutions to give us records of all accounts rather than trying to strip out just those accounts which paid above a certain level of interest . |
| 3 | separate reports of the views of each of the groups to give them the opportunity for further comment ; |
| 4 | How can you give them the opportunity to make alterations to the rules to give them " ownership " of a game ? |
| 5 | ‘ There just were n't the windshifts to give us leverage , ’ Conner admitted . |
| 6 | If you have time , pipe a little flavoured butter around the tartlets to give them a professional finish . |
| 7 | There simply was n't enough stock in the shops to give them any real choice . |
| 8 | At the scene of the two-year-old 's death , a telegraph pole bears a long poem pleading with the killers to give themselves up and release the family from their pain . |
| 9 | Under section 245A , where copies of the annual accounts have been sent out , laid , or delivered to the Registrar and it appears to the Secretary of State that there is or may be a question whether they comply with the Act he may give notice to the directors indicating the respects in which it appears to him that the question may arise and specifying a period of not less than one month for the directors to give him explanations or prepare revised accounts . |
| 10 | We would support any moves to increase the powers of the regulators to give them stronger teeth . |
| 11 | Moscow was also offended by the refusal of the Anglo-Americans to give her a share in controlling the German industrial heartland , the Ruhr , which lay in the British zone . |
| 12 | With your monthly premiums invested in the GRE Life Fund , your level of benefits can increase over the years to give you rock-solid protection and a handsome double cash payout . |
| 13 | In spite of which , the impression they gave was of being identical , and it was left to the owners to give their property whatever signs of individuality they could , by making neat little gardens , or by not doing so , by cleaning the windows once a month , or by not doing so . |
| 14 | IN THE ancient fable the frogs called on the gods to give them a king . |
| 15 | This has run into very heavy water in the twentieth century , and not only because of Freud 's onslaught on religion in the name of wish-fulfilment , where he portrayed the idea that people create an imaginary father in the skies to give them comfort . |
| 16 | Almost , she went back up the stairs to give him what she had … |
| 17 | As soon as he had gained control , Sandys brought about another change in the Virginia Company 's way of running things ; he told the Company 's governor in the colony to have an assembly elected from among the colonists to give him advice and to act as the legislative body to pass any local laws needed inside the colony . |
| 18 | Because this is this is very common in maths that there is n't really time for the teachers to give them |
| 19 | She appealed to the Teachers to give them their support in every way possible . |
| 20 | Richardson said : ‘ Stuart has demanded a steely band of professionalism from the squad and told the players to give everything . |
| 21 | The aim was to get the Davidians to give themselves up . |
| 22 | His first big senior championship victory over 1500 metres at Crystal Palace yesterday convinced the selectors to give him this job in Rome . |
| 23 | Back to the basins to give my hair a brush-through : I liked myself spiky , hedgehog , but I wanted a will-brushed hedgehog . |
| 24 | From the beginning , Lewis was a conscientious tutor who tried to keep the balance right between amiability or conviviality ( not always possible between incompatible types ) and his duty to the pupils to give them sufficient preparation for their examinations . |
| 25 | Then other people could n't get enough again you see , so if they were giving you er points well naturally you had the sweets to give them , you 're not diddling anybody or anything like that . |
| 26 | He 'd strangled two children with his bare hands , then called the police to give himself up . |
| 27 | create opportunities for the children to give their work authenticity |
| 28 | In a modest attempt to amend the damage accumulated over centuries by this pernicious little fiction , I asked the children to give me the Other Version , particularly Eve 's , but Adam 's or God 's as well if they preferred . |
| 29 | Kendall has dismissed him , but Everton might be better off re-educating the others to give him the service he thrives on . |
| 30 | ‘ If you change your mind about your convalescence , you 've only got to get one of the nurses to give me a ring . ’ |