Example sentences of "man to give " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Phil , from my old club at Royston , has joined in the support , a real act of friendship for a young man to give up a weekend to support an old woman . |
| 2 | John Smith may prove to be the man to give Labour its best chance in a 1996 general election ( although it can not be good to have had him all but enthroned as leader before the leadership contest was even underway ) . |
| 3 | Grammar , perfectly understood , enables us , not only to express our meaning fully and clearly , but so to express it as to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express . |
| 4 | ‘ Your husband must be a very rich man to give you such a ring , ’ he said , turning it between his thumb and forefinger . |
| 5 | Apart from the very great difficulty of establishing how a couple manage their finances ( in effect one would have to take their word for it ) and the strong incentive they would have to arrange their affairs so as to safeguard the woman 's claim to benefit , the fact that she is receiving benefit may itself make it unnecessary for the man to give her more than is required for his own keep . |
| 6 | Tonight she needed a long soft loving , and he was the man to give it to her . |
| 7 | ‘ Stapleton told me that he could not allow any other man to give me the money for my divorce , ’ Mrs Lyons said . |
| 8 | She recalled his expression as he had accused her of knowing where Garry was , and she knew he was n't the kind of man to give up easily . |
| 9 | He was not a man to give way easily and he had clearly set his heart on making her recognise her father . |
| 10 | Franco , however , was not a man to give way to this kind of pressure . |
| 11 | This " issue " could range from — " How do you teach your little sister to tie her shoelaces ? " through — " How will you persuade the Pied Piper to release our children ? " to — " Can you encourage this reluctant old man to give a radio interview about the way the community used to be 60 years ago ? " |
| 12 | But it is an agreement which is " restrictive of trade " in this sense , that it requires a man to give his services and wares to one person only for a long term of years to the exclusion of all others . |
| 13 | He said , ‘ Prepare the men to give battle . |