Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day after doctors gave him their cautious opinion Roy gave away prizes for yet another cancer research fund-raising effort . |
| 2 | ‘ I can remember going down the Speakeasy with The Clash to look for models to give us cocaine and blow jobs . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Gardening and agricultural production , unlike trading , were safe from government intervention , and his mixture of activities gave him some security should his job or his shop come under threat . |
| 6 | Could you give guidance on the important matter of confidences given us by constituents ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Bangkok is well supplied with ‘ shooting galleries ’ where pushers go down lines of addicts giving them all a fix with the same needle . |
| 9 | And the recently discovered structure of atoms gave them the idea that they could make helium out of hydrogen . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So I I I mean , but I do n't know whether to take it today or you know because she 'll get a lot of things given her today . |
| 12 | At either end of the village two long avenues of trees gave it a friendly air . |
| 13 | To belong to the Communion of Saints gives us a sense of deep communion . |
| 14 | They searched my whole flat before they took me , looking for things like Durex , and to see whether I kept any books of accounts , of girls giving me money , all this sort of thing . |
| 15 | ‘ Unfortunately I 'm fresh out of medals to give you , but — ’ |
| 16 | The consolidation of results gave me , on one page , an overview of the ledger by risk category and was very effective in resource planning . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll have a couple of drinks to give me Dutch courage , then I 'll join you . |
| 18 | Enjoying a variety of foods gives you all the nourishment you need . |
| 19 | Enjoying a variety of foods gives you all the nourishment you need . |
| 20 | She had discovered , too , one good source of decent clothing : periodically , churches and chapels would hold a sale of garments given them by their better-off parishioners . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But the equally necessary professional detachment of undertakers gives them a valuable view of human reactions . |
| 23 | ‘ Planned it for years to give me pleasure in my retirement and now it 's just getting into a mess . |
| 24 | Puffing our experiences and views into words gives them meaning and enables us to feel confident and in control . |
| 25 | On a larger scale one might observe that his lifelong preoccupation with words gave him a kind of sensitivity to them , even if it was an unorthodox one ; and further that it is strange that a myth should so make its way if enshrined and embodied in words as inappropriate as critics have made out . |
| 26 | These raised the nap on the cloth , which could then be cropped with shears to give it a smoother finish . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This was not the first time that water had been collected in bulk , but hitherto those who indulged in the practice had generally been powerful bodies , like water or railway companies , who had acted under powers given them by legislation which at the same time made them liable for harm done by its escape . |
| 29 | Having collected data they structure it into concepts to give it meaning for others . |
| 30 | 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 ’ ) . |