Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] to give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If they do n't drive , then they ask their husbands to give them a lift . |
| 2 | Her eyes darted back to his and she studied him before parting her lips to give him his answer . |
| 3 | A degenerate male voice exhorted its hearers to give it love or let it die in peace . |
| 4 | Runners are more conservative , instead of their heads they look to their shoes to give them the competitive edge . |
| 5 | He persuaded her parents to give her in marriage to a friend of his and by constant threats and ill-treatment she was forced to consent . |
| 6 | A parallel Committee on the Staffing of Local Government was established at the same time ‘ to consider the existing methods of recruiting local government officers and of using them ; and what changes might help local authorities to get the best possible service and help their officers to give it ’ ( Mallaby 1967:iii ) . |
| 7 | The old gods keep their gifts to give their own . ’ |
| 8 | Think of a conference as an aircraft : it needs air flowing over its wings to give it lift . |
| 9 | In the end , all the neighbours tell her patents to give her what she wants . |
| 10 | Almost all had some form of conscious planning or deliberate encouragement from their lords to give them urban status . |
| 11 | In his Reith lectures , broadcast in 1991 and now published as a book , he has set aside his snails to give us a glimpse of human evolution through his geneticist 's eye . |
| 12 | In view of Leicester Energy Limited 's continued interest in the establishment of a combined heat and power scheme in Leicester , will the Minister give his wholehearted support and instruct his officials to give their wholehearted co-operation to Leicester Energy Limited in the tremendous efforts that it is making to promote that scheme ? |
| 13 | I 'll talk to you about one of his experiments to give you a sort of flavour of it , although other people and himself and others have done a lot of interesting work that 's similar . |
| 14 | Jaq switched on the magnetics in his boots to give him purchase for possible combat . |
| 15 | Music has a time-span which is very different from that of speech — it spreads words into another time dimension , so that whereas a writer has to ‘ pad out ’ his thoughts to give his words extra body , such padding becomes burdensome in music — unwanted material we could well do without . |
| 16 | There was another Moses , a Midianite , who introduced the god Yahweh , a local volcanic god — ‘ a coarse , narrow-minded , local god , violent and bloodthirsty , he had promised his followers to give them a land flowing with milk and honey ’ . |
| 17 | In fact , the chances are you 'll have to go back and pare down your heroes to give you enough points for Shamans . |
| 18 | Lay your pipelines to give yourself access to the clear light of understanding , through prayer and guidance from within . |
| 19 | We plan our holidays to give you the maximum enjoyment . |
| 20 | We had persuaded our landladies to give us packed lunches in place of the statutory second meal . |