Example sentences of "for give " in BNC.
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| 1 | So peaceful land reform based around rent reduction , interest rate reduction , might be the ultimate strategy for given your learning process in the north , given the nature of the economy in the south . |
| 2 | ‘ Results were as good as we could have hoped for given the difficult economic background throughout the year , ’ he said . |
| 3 | By the third number , he had found his confidence and switched from electric to acoustic guitar for Give Me Love — the only sadness being that the slide guitar part was played on a synthesiser . |
| 4 | How , how long do you think it 'll take for give up how long will it take before that person feels uncomfortable and has to respond ? |
| 5 | I do n't like to ask you but me mam asked you me to ask you if you could give her something for to give her some energy , she 's sleeping all the time now . |
| 6 | I am still waiting for to give me one or two ideas for his 18th birthday present — though I shall make the final decision ! ! |
| 7 | ‘ Somewhere that Jennifer could be cared for to give you both a break . ’ |
| 8 | I wish to express my sincerest thanks to ‘ all those taking part ’ , and for giving me their time . |
| 9 | This peculiar action is responsible for giving the kick its unique feature , that is the ability to generate tremendous power from a very short action . |
| 10 | Speaking as the operation began , Mr Barnett thanked the person who gave permission for the donation : ‘ I know that Aisling , even if she does not survive , would want me to express my eternal gratitude to them for giving her the chance to live . ’ |
| 11 | Daphne Parish , a British nurse , has been held incommunicado since last month for giving information on casualties caused by an explosion at an Iraqi missile plant in August . |
| 12 | Heart of Darkness mattered not for giving Eliot the anthropological reader a better idea of how primitive society worked , but for showing Eliot the poet that the life of the savage and that of the modern urban clerk intersected on the deepest level , the level of ‘ The Horror ’ which was , essentially for him , the realization of evil within man . |
| 13 | Laing rejects the view held by some people that managers from major corporations are unsuitable for giving advice to small firms because they live in two different worlds . |
| 14 | Having been criticised for giving no information , BR now gives it all the time with endless repetition , except when you really want it . |
| 15 | With good cause did Kine Weekly subsequently hail the film for giving ‘ promise of a genuine reaction against the deeply-rooted Wardour Street superstition that America will only buy pictures similar to her own . ’ |
| 16 | If Guardian members receive an average £520 for giving the nod to a plan to allow their society to remain a mutual — and to continue operating much as it has since the turn of the century — what price a vote to convert ? |
| 17 | THE Governor of Hong Kong , Sir David Wilson , is likely to make a last-ditch attempt to influence the Government 's package for giving the right of abode to the colony 's British passport holders when he arrives in London on Tuesday . |
| 18 | There is growing support for giving the European Parliament greater powers as part of an overhaul of all the community 's decision-making institutions . |
| 19 | WC apps : 2 Mike Smith , the former manager of Wales and Egypt , takes a lot of credit for giving the Egyptians the impetus to reach the finals for the first time . |
| 20 | ‘ What excuse , ’ he asked Mrs Thatcher , ‘ have you got for giving instructions that in the middle of the night , armed riot police raid children , women and men , shove them into caged lorries and forcibly deport them to the country from which they fled ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ What excuse has she got for giving instructions that , in the middle of the night , armed riot police raid children , women and men , shove them into caged lorries and forcibly deport them to the country from which they fled ? |
| 22 | Abdul Shamji , chairman of the Gomba Group of Companies , yesterday lost his appeal against a 15-month jail sentence for giving perjured evidence about his personal fortune . |
| 23 | The provision sometimes inserted in a settlement for giving remuneration to a professional man who is one of the trustees is open to considerable objection since it may give him an interest in incurring expense , and will , in any case , tend to make the other trustees leave the management mainly in his hands . |
| 24 | He felt a certain gratitude to Eleanor for giving him this idea . |
| 25 | So I felt inexpressible gratitude to you for giving me the support and care of that relationship , however attenuated it appeared to me at times : |
| 26 | so they have been very useful for giving extra pressure on the farm 's subsoiler and home-made 3.6m ( 12ft ) pasture aerator . |
| 27 | It is not called burning bush for nothing : I am tempted by the reputation its seed pods have for giving off a halo of oil vapour on still summer 's evenings . |
| 28 | The Admonitio Generalis was a programme for giving the clergy social power . |
| 29 | ‘ And thanks to you for giving Gareth such a good day yesterday . ’ |
| 30 | Although Pond praised him as a ‘ middle-class Englishman … the personification of all their sterling traits and sturdy characteristics ’ , there were problems over whether or not he should have taken a fee for giving a eulogy on his friend , Henry Ward Beecher , at Beecher 's Brooklyn church . |