Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] give [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He just kept on giving everything to Lennie and giving him the love he needed . |
| 2 | However , he and Earl Tostig Godwinsson [ q.v. ] were robbed by brigands on their way home , and forced to return to Rome , where Nicholas reinstated Ealdred and gave him the pallium , while insisting that he give up Worcester . |
| 3 | Bob Eaton , the man who brought Lotus to GM and gave us the Calibra , is about to become chairman of Chrysler . |
| 4 | He did not accomplish much , beyond making it clear to the owners that , in return for their agreement to a national minimum , he would abandon Samuel and give them the eight-hour day ; but he was thought to have acquitted himself well . |
| 5 | The federal civil service is the only part of Canadian society which remotely approaches the bilingual and bicultural ideal : this isolates it from real life in Canada and gives it the tendency , like the Prussian army , to believe that it is the sole repository of national values . |
| 6 | Israel 's uniqueness stems from the fact that it considers itself to be in a perpetual state of war with its Arab neighbours which , together with the Nazi barbarities of the last war , is somehow supposed to make the rest of the world feel permanently sorry for Israel and give it the right to carry out any intelligence operations it likes . |
| 7 | The boss went to Calgary and gave me the day off . ’ |
| 8 | Some time later Mehmed II repented of his action , invited Molla Husrev back to Istanbul and gave him the office of Mufti . |
| 9 | Donald , alas , had been dead for thirty years when Hilary Spurling published her admirable biography Ivy when Young and gave us the answers to our questions . |
| 10 | Radio controller John Fletcher grabbed four-month-old Lauren McNamara and gave her the kiss of life as her face turned blue from lack of oxygen . |
| 11 | Singleton has an astonishing three year deal with Columbia that gives him the freedom to make as many films as he can in that time . |
| 12 | ‘ The opening of our new office demonstrates our commitment to our future involvement in Slovakia and gives us the opportunity to continue to build on the excellent relations that have already been established , ’ he added . |
| 13 | He went straight out , went to four families , whose names immediately suggested themselves to him , checked his facts and figures , got in while discussion was still on and flatly contradicted the great John and gave him the facts and figures to prove it , to tell him that he was wrong . |