Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] to give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can remember going down the Speakeasy with The Clash to look for models to give us cocaine and blow jobs . |
| 2 | If , however , the Chancellor was hoping for a variety of opinions to give him maximum freedom of manoeuvre in next month 's Budget , he will be only too happy with the report . |
| 3 | We have resisted the temptation to link up with any beauty product firm simply because we want our panel of experts to give you nothing but honest , impartial and wholly unbiased advice . |
| 4 | The Syrian foreign minister who , after meeting Douglas Hurd , evoked the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 in which the British and the French secretly carved up the Middle East between them ( later using the League of Nations to give them the so-called Mandates as a cover ) , was not making some arcane and irrelevant allusion . |
| 5 | One thing for certain , Sanders , you wo n't be coming here to the Mother of Parliaments to give us all the benefit of your profound wisdom . |
| 6 | ‘ Unfortunately I 'm fresh out of medals to give you , but — ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll have a couple of drinks to give me Dutch courage , then I 'll join you . |
| 8 | PREVIOUS whisky industry wisdom had it that Whyte & Mackay , largest minority shareholder of Invergordon Distillers since it made its hostile bid , was going to wait for yesterday 's results and , if they were sufficiently poor to drive down the share price , would then pounce for the remaining 8.8 per cent of shares to give it control . |
| 9 | ‘ Planned it for years to give me pleasure in my retirement and now it 's just getting into a mess . |
| 10 | These raised the nap on the cloth , which could then be cropped with shears to give it a smoother finish . |
| 11 | It enables adaptation of plants and animals to human purposes that would be beyond the reach of traditional breeding techniques ; an example is the insertion of toxin genes from bacteria into plants to give them an in-built system for poisoning pests . |
| 12 | Having collected data they structure it into concepts to give it meaning for others . |
| 13 | Arthropods are those animals with an external , usually ‘ chitinous ’ skeleton ( exoskeleton ) and have characteristic legs , feelers , etc. , with joints to give them flexibility ( arthropod is derived from the Greek for ‘ jointed leg ’ ) . |
| 14 | To make a profit , drug dealers sell you short measures or mix all sorts of dangerous materials in with drugs to give them a bigger share of the profits or to finance their own drug habits . |
| 15 | Pluralism is a development of democratic theory and recognises that often individuals can best get their views heard by combining in groups to give them a stronger voice . |
| 16 | Additional discontent among former contras , who claimed that the government had reneged on promises to give them land , led to armed clashes and to promises from Chamorro to distribute a further 23,000 hectares of land in the south-eastern Boaco and Chontales provinces . |
| 17 | From the script it tells you that after this nuclear war the creatures are supposed to have decayed into these horrible shapes , almost armless and legless , dependent on machines to give them any mobility . |
| 18 | You might decide to offer Work Experience to pupils to give them a taste of working life while they are still at school , or you might offer a teacher a secondment to industry . |
| 19 | She was his only daughter and the youngest of seven , and he had been at pains to give her a good education . |
| 20 | Some of the case histories seem scientifically a little scanty but there is sufficient evidence of its effectiveness in the treatment of arthritis for sufferers to give it a try . |
| 21 | Coding can be done by interviewers to give them a break and to sustain their interest , but is more usually done by special staff . |
| 22 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer has been approached by industrialists to give them something to look forward to in his budget . |