Example sentences of "[noun] and give [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of the Enterprise is to involve Third World countries in mining nodules and give them a share in the profits . |
| 2 | So he decided to add another fifteen knots to the approach speed and give it a go . |
| 3 | And we 're very grateful , you 've brought rural interest , you 've brought much wider interest , and you 've brought a great deal of warmth and compassion and interest and time , what more could we say , but to show a token of our appreciation and give you a few flowers to go with that . |
| 4 | Some folk in the village said it was a public disgrace that a maid like Martha Pascoe should be bartered for with barrels of fish , but most saw the whole affair as a great joke , because when all was said and done , the lass was unlikely to marry Sam or Harry or anyone else against her will , and if she could use their ardour to win a few more stone of pilchards and thereby swell the village purse and give everyone a bit of harmless fun , then more power to her elbow . |
| 5 | The clear , vivid patterns excite the zebra 's eyes and give it a sensation of strong identity , as if it were the member of a football team or a sports club with conspicuous striped shirts . |
| 6 | They take hold of the club and give it a few waggles . |
| 7 | They spoke good Spanish : if they promised to interpret for me , I said , I 'd rent a car and give them a ride . |
| 8 | If you do not know what a tree or shrub is , exercise clemency and give it a year 's grace to demonstrate its worth before you turn it over to the axeman . |
| 9 | A 12-strong party of homeless men , who currently reside at the Fleetwood Hostel in Lancashire , were offered the chance to visit Sellafield to stimulate their interest in industry and give them a day out to remember . |
| 10 | I get hold of her shoulders and give her a good shake . |
| 11 | ‘ Just take these other duties off my shoulders and give me a day a week for the next year to attend a decent training course so that I can master it , and I 'm yours . ’ |
| 12 | Alan Smithson , promotions manager at The Mall , said : ‘ We hope to encourage new talent and give them a chance . |
| 13 | having seen Frank playing in our Norwegian ‘ premiership ’ — i can only say : this guy has talent and give him a couple of more years on his neck he will become a real threat to any defence . |
| 14 | I do not remember much about my father — just odd memories , like when he would lift me up on his horse and give me a ride . |
| 15 | then mum said are n't you gon na say hello to mummy and give her a kiss , so she went ugh , and every time we asked her anything she kept going what have you lost ? |
| 16 | All I considered necessary was to simplify the design of the icon and give it a different colour scheme . |
| 17 | Still , I could go into Burnley and give it a try . ’ |
| 18 | I jump to my feet and give her a hug , and she pats my back . |
| 19 | Cut off two , inch long pieces of gummed tape and , moistening no more than one-quarter of an inch on each strip , stick them on the top edge of your cartridge paper by holding the brown paper hinges and give it a good shake . |
| 20 | It 's only good manners to make your guests feel at home and give them a go now and again , but Swindon were a little too kind just before half-time . |
| 21 | I was thinking I would boil the sheets that evening and ask the chemist for a powerful disinfectant and give myself a vinegar douche to get rid of all the germs inside me . |
| 22 | But any climbing area where they take away your chalk bag , place bolts 25m apart , ban all other protection and give you a pile of grotty lengths of tat to knot and jam in cracks is too wild to be ignored . |
| 23 | a thin transparent plastic coating applied to paper or board to provide protection and give it a glossy finish . |
| 24 | The board processes themselves often do not work , so one often hears the remark : the company policy is X , but of course I am not personally in support of this , I believe we should be doing Y. Since industrial success depends totally on getting the concentration of effort of widely differing groups of people with different skills to be applied at optimum effect to the achievement of the common goal , it is not difficult to see why such disparate messages strike at one 's heart and give one a more than usual dose of despair . |
| 25 | Disbud hybrid tea roses for the best blooms and give them a foliar feed if it is necessary . |
| 26 | Jason says that you can take any group down the course and give them a thrill you do n't have to be good and special needs groups such as blind people can also have a go … |
| 27 | It should hold us in suspense and give us a sense of waiting and expectation for the more important message which is to follow . |
| 28 | Jackie was asked if she would take a Thoroughbred mare who had been abandoned in a field and give her a home as a brood mare — but part of the deal was that she also took the pony who had been left with her . |
| 29 | They feel like an extension of my arm , with a sweet action down their 10 ft length which is supple enough to cast free-lined baits and give me a feel of a fighting fish , yet with power to spare when I have to bend it into the run of a big carp . |
| 30 | Fulcrum Technologies Inc , Ottawa , Canada reckons that it has the industry 's first suite of SQL-based tools that enable corporate information professionals to access text information and make it available throughout an organisation for use as a strategic resource : Fulcrum says SearchTools offer the first means by which corporate developers , working within an open client-server environment , can build text-retrieval applications for accessing large text applications and give them a way to integrate text-intensive data into existing corporate information management , image or database systems ; the tools feature an applications programming interface based on the SQL Access Group 's Call Level Interface ; the tools will initially be available for Microsoft Corp Visual Basic and Windows developers , as well as for C developers working in other environments , such as OS/2 and Unix ; initial Unix support will be under AIX/6000 , HP-UX and Solaris ; the SearchTools development kit starts at $7,500 per copy and the indexing and retrieval component , SearchServer , will be from $1,000 per user . |