Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Booth took 30 seconds to give them the lead , taking advantage of a defender 's clearance which deflected freakishly off an onrushing forward and into his path . |
| 2 | Nine wins and four draws from thirteen games give him a score of 11 points , three points ahead of Viktor Korchnoi in second place . |
| 3 | To summarise , the problem was to build a machine that could examine enough positions in three minutes to give it some protection against the clumsiness of its evaluation functions . |
| 4 | ‘ All three judges gave me the decision and having watched the video , I reckon I lost only two rounds — the fourth and the tenth . ’ |
| 5 | I remember when she took us to the pantomime in town , and we saved up all our sweets for three weeks to give her as a present . |
| 6 | We know what he was saying there , the three days gives it away the death on the Friday and the Resurrection on the Sunday , right . |
| 7 | This state-of-the-art shaver has three positions to give you the perfect shave and a trimmer for those with sideburns and/or moustache . |
| 8 | The two trumpets and three trombones give us five parts , but we have no intention of spoiling the harmonic clearness by writing a fifth ‘ real part ’ for one of these . |
| 9 | The week-long camps are sponsored by Digital Equipment Company , and are open to students aged from 14 to 17 years to give them practical experience of the computer applications they will come across when they take up their careers . |
| 10 | Nine jobs in sixteen years gave me an average of almost two years in each job . |
| 11 | Tony and I dig a platform for the tent , lowering the snow by about seventy centimetres to give us a nice protective wall . |
| 12 | Despite the record unpopularity of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney , the 2,500 delegates gave him a warm reception as he promised a third consecutive PCP victory in the federal elections due in 1993 . |
| 13 | Sean Robinson , Middlesex 's full-back , scored two tries in the final five minutes to give them victory over Hertfordshire by one point , 22-21 , in the Toshiba County Championship at Croxley Green to go into the London play-off . |
| 14 | This was especially so at Birmingham , where at 6.00 a.m. on Friday an ‘ End of Stage 2 ’ banner was erected and more than twenty insomniacs gave us a great breakfast and a marvellous reception that we will not forget , thanks to everyone who turned up , you certainly made us feel very welcome . |
| 15 | Reckon each bath at around 60 litres to give you an idea of the amount of hot water storage that is needed . |
| 16 | A series of four wins gave them 12 more points at the most important time to guarantee not only the victory but a bonus for top scoring over the two legs of the match . |
| 17 | In what many observers regarded as a further example of the new censorship , Gosteleradio on Feb. 1 withdrew from Radio Russia two frequencies giving it an audience throughout the Soviet Union , and assigned to it instead a frequency on which it could reach only 60 per cent of the population and which reduced the quality of reception . |
| 18 | Lesley Robertson , 18 , from Aberdeen , took the overall women 's championship , while Graham Bell 's consistent results in all four disciplines gave him the Victor Ludorum title . |
| 19 | And delivered as an integral part of the application are two utilities to give us as much flexibility in achieving that goal as possible . |
| 20 | Her soldier companion urged her forward along a gully , which they crawled along until a gap between two boulders gave them a clear view of the landscape . |
| 21 | Two films gave him temporary solvency and cast him straight into the seedier end of the youth market , the biker movies which were at the beginning of a craze that would last four or five years . |
| 22 | A wife whose husband had had multiple sclerosis and went to a holiday home for the disabled for two weeks to give her a rest said : |
| 23 | Those who attended valued the experience that the two days gave them , and look forward to the next such occasion . |
| 24 | Once I had learnt to ride , the trick of balancing took me quite a while , that bike , over the next four years gave me enormous pleasure . |
| 25 | The shaft needed to come through two bearings to give it that stability . |
| 26 | On a personal note there are two things give me encouragement . |
| 27 | But we have n't got a hundred pounds to give them . |
| 28 | A group of , say , four machines gives you a pretty good chance of hitting where you want at least once every turn . |
| 29 | If it is n't if you have n't got the two lengths given you 've got you 've got one length plus one angle . |
| 30 | I really do n't deserve the loyalty that these two men gave me . |