Example sentences of "give of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the great Scandinavian tradition of Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman , Lorna Lewis and her daughter Jo Forbes were actresses who could never give of their best when their shoes pinched . |
| 2 | He usually turned out for the Palace at right-back and was the composed and effective successor to the brilliant Arthur Hudgell , epitomising the honest footballer who would always give of his best for his club whatever the situation . |
| 3 | Third , there was the vision of the home church , Holy Trinity Brompton , to ‘ give of its best ’ . |
| 4 | Man-management is about the maintenance of structure and morale so that all can give of their best . |
| 5 | He demanded to know of another ambassador 's wife , no longer young , what kind of impression an old and unfashionable woman like her must give of Britain abroad : why could n't she look as attractive as the young woman opposite ? |
| 6 | Since in the last resort everything has to be achieved by people , the first thing we have to consider is the sort of environment in which people can give of their best . |
| 7 | Innate within him was the ability to put committee members at their ease , so that they could give of their best , and he could abstract the maximum amount of information . |
| 8 | For his sake then let us give of our best , in every sense of that term . |
| 9 | It is good for staff , who can give of their best in a more competitive environment . |
| 10 | The figure that the hon. Gentleman is quoting from the newspaper article bears no relation to the figures that I used , which constituted the best estimate that the senior chief inspector and I could give of the numbers required to carry out the policy . |
| 11 | A description of 1678 is so close to the kind of situation which Mayhew would give of London in the mid-nineteenth century , that it must be taken as applying just as much to the eighteenth : a poor woman that goes three days a week to wash or scoure abroad , or one that is employed in nurse-keeping three or four months in a year , or a poor market-woman who attends three or four mornings in a week with her basket , and all the rest of the time these folks have little or nothing to do . |
| 12 | What measure might I give of Thy Name ? |