Example sentences of "[indef pn] to give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ask the advice of the Occupational Therapist ; Social Services will also arrange for someone to give further advice . |
| 2 | This should be enough to convince someone to give you a chance . |
| 3 | I want to cry , I want to comfort her , give her something , I want someone to give me something , comfort me . |
| 4 | ‘ He just wants someone to give his two spoilt brats a holiday . |
| 5 | Actually he wanted someone to give some orders to and to deal with the press for him . |
| 6 | Simone rushed back into the house , dumping the bags on the kitchen table , calling out for someone to give her a hand . |
| 7 | By the time Kathleen had sorted the patient out and found someone to give his wife a cup of tea and explain what was happening , Jack was back in Theatre , clad from head to toe in green theatre pyjamas , with a J-cloth hat and a mask . |
| 8 | They are looking for someone to give them a helping hand . ’ |
| 9 | You want someone to give you some lino |
| 10 | You 've got somebody to give them pens . |
| 11 | She looked at Gay , who was an only child too , but who had nobody to give her a good time , and then her glance travelled to Breeze , who had just admitted in her light-hearted fashion that she had no idea of what the future would hold for her . |
| 12 | He had none to give her . |
| 13 | When he turned out to have nothing to give , how would they punish him ? |
| 14 | I can do nothing for you , and have nothing to give you . ’ |
| 15 | There are millions of people who admit to being members of the two Christian churches and their various sects , but who do little or nothing to give substance to that admission . |
| 16 | They heard no more from behind them and as the small amount of sky they could see between the tree-tops was clouded over there was nothing to give them direction . |
| 17 | To Loppe himself he had nothing to give save the task in Cyprus which had seemed most worth doing . |
| 18 | I 've nothing to give you . " |
| 19 | I tried to thank them , but I had nothing to give them . |
| 20 | One came from someone in prison who ‘ had nothing to give but enclosed stamp ’ ; another from a pensioner who had sellotaped a pound coin to her letter and apologized for not sending more . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've nothing to give you . |
| 22 | Why , nothing is the answer to that one , ladies and gentlemen , although that does n't mean we 've got nothing to give away this week , no sir . |
| 23 | It was always an elitist kind of limited democracy that was applauded a democracy of powerful , autonomous , but cautious , leaders , in limp relation to passive and uncommitted followers who had nothing to give but their votes and unquestioning support . |
| 24 | Nothing to give in return . |
| 25 | He had nothing to give Merymose to take to Kenamun , and the priest-administrator would not thank him for information which cast suspicion on two of the most powerful men in the country . |
| 26 | Half-way down the great boulevard a fakir shouted up to Dara that previously he had always been generous to the poor ; but now he understood that Dara had nothing to give . |
| 27 | We have nothing to give you but your own freedom ’ . |
| 28 | This government is doing nothing to give them hope and their pride back . |
| 29 | Why , nothing is the answer to that one , ladies and gentlemen , although that does n't mean we 've got nothing to give away this week , no sir . |
| 30 | There 's nothing to give away . |