Example sentences of "man give " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a man given to painting there is a surprising lack of colour , of objets d'art . |
| 2 | I remember years ago being amused when a young man given to very few words came to our vicarage and burst in with the news : ‘ Jane had a baby boy this morning ! ’ still with his bedroom slippers on . |
| 3 | Never in the history of human seduction has one man given so much attention to the cause of international womanhood as the former roadsweeper from Milton . |
| 4 | Jonadab was taken aback , not being a man given to overt affection . |
| 5 | When her sister rang to say he fitted the description of a wanted man given on BBC TV 's Crimewatch UK , he told her : ‘ Do n't be silly ’ . |
| 6 | John Parker , chairman and chief executive of Harland & Wolff , is the man given the credit for the about-turn . |
| 7 | One concerned a black American man given 80 g ascorbic acid intravenously for burns ; he subsequently developed acute haemolysis and renal failure and died . |
| 8 | It was after the finding that the real work began , and Pascoe was not a man given to anticipating events . |
| 9 | ‘ Muhammad — may God bless him and grant him peace — who was , I do n't need to remind you , quite a guy — once said — and what he said was , on the whole earth , listening to — on several occasions — not that he was a man given to repeating himself — once , anyway , said — and he had a beautiful speaking voice … ’ etc. etc . |
| 10 | The man given the task of bringing the legend to life is Chelmsford-born Alex Bourne who is relishing this unabashed , foot-stomping , hand-clapping piece of rock and roll history . |
| 11 | Luce heard the man give a little grunt , while at the same instant the impact drove most of the breath from her body . |
| 12 | The Pharisees had asked why Moses commanded that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce . |
| 13 | I saw the man give a terrified glance over his shoulder , then that metal flail slammed into the side of his head . |
| 14 | Yes because all all Every every man give their wife up . |
| 15 | Jean , we 'll go down to where 's the fifty P shop or something and buy some of those do , er cornflakes ' plates or something , say they 're gon na fill those other ones up that the man give us a mere seven , eight ones , only leaves us four ordinary , you see I know for a fact that Sally say he was caught |
| 16 | ( 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Your husband must be a very rich man to give you such a ring , ’ he said , turning it between his thumb and forefinger . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Tonight she needed a long soft loving , and he was the man to give it to her . |
| 22 | ‘ Stapleton told me that he could not allow any other man to give me the money for my divorce , ’ Mrs Lyons said . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He was not a man to give way easily and he had clearly set his heart on making her recognise her father . |
| 25 | Franco , however , was not a man to give way to this kind of pressure . |
| 26 | 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 ? " |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The man giving orders was short and fat . |
| 29 | On the front of the booklet was the picture of a white man giving instruction to blacks and inside prominence was given to missionary work , particularly that of the Baptist mission to the West Indies . |
| 30 | One union man giving evidence at the same time , said that it was " not … above twelve months " . |