Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( g ) To lend and advance money or give credit on any terms with or without security to any person , firm or company ( including without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing any holding company , subsidiary or fellow subsidiary of , or any other company associated in any way with , the Company ) , to enter into guarantees , contracts of indemnity and suretyships of all kinds , to receive money on deposit or loan upon any terms , and to secure or guarantee in any manner and upon any terms the payment of any sum of money or the performance of any obligation by any person , firm or company ( including without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing any such holding company , subsidiary , fellow subsidiary or associated company as aforesaid ) . |
| 2 | ( g ) To lend and advance money or give credit on any terms with or without security to any person , firm or company ( including without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing any holding company , subsidiary or fellow subsidiary of , or any other company associated in any way with , the Company ) , to enter into guarantees , contracts of indemnity and suretyships of all kinds , to receive money on deposit or loan upon any terms , and to secure or guarantee in any manner and upon any terms the payment of any sum of money or the performance of any obligation by any person , firm or company ( including without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing any such holding company , subsidiary , fellow subsidiary or associated company as aforesaid ) . |
| 3 | A counselling technique , where the listener does not pass judgement or give advice , but focuses all attention on the speaker . |
| 4 | You do n't have to leap in and pass judgement or give advice immediately . |
| 5 | Schools which create a department or give teachers specific responsibilities for meeting individual needs can , inadvertently , reduce the responsibility of all teachers . |
| 6 | They may also write letters to Sinterklaas setting out what gifts they would like to receive , or do a drawing or give him a small present . |
| 7 | His hands sometimes stopped shaking long enough for him to light a fag or give his teeth the once-over with Pepsodent , but that was every other Scumday in a month with a zed in it . |
| 8 | Erm , so what I promised to do in er er , a moment or two if people are to ask specific questions or comments to make arising from either of those printed reports on page six and page twenty erm , if you would make your point or ask your question now er , it will be recorded and transmitted to the officers responsible and they will take any necessary action or give any reverent replies to those questions . |
| 9 | It is the curved arrows and printed numbers at the left-hand side that give the numbers of rows knitted with the main carriage . |
| 10 | " Besides all this Tristan learned to ride nimbly with shield and lance , to spur his mount skilfully on either flank , put it to the gallop with dash , wheel and give it free rein and urge it on with his knees , in strict accordance with the chivalric art . |
| 11 | It is important that the whole family can recognise their grief and give each other emotional support . |
| 12 | Findlay , is due in today and providing he overcomes his jetlag , he could again prove the trump card and give his team a rare victory over Bury , who have already beaten them on all four occasions the two teams have met this season . |
| 13 | A better hood , on this type of bag anyway , will be shaped to avoid the extra bulk and give a close fit around the head . |
| 14 | The Labour councillors voted to overturn the officers ' recommendation and give permission for the works to be demolished . |
| 15 | The content of the opinion in each case would have a spin-off effect on people who happen to love football and give a lot of time to watching , playing or training for it . |
| 16 | So he decided to add another fifteen knots to the approach speed and give it a go . |
| 17 | Moreover , Noorda must finally set up a line of succession and give us some indication of how Novell ( and Unix ) will function when he bows out . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | You will tell me if you find it was murder and give me the name of the murderer . |
| 21 | They take hold of the club and give it a few waggles . |
| 22 | The prominent white clasts are fragments of anorthosites — calcium and aluminium-rich rocks that make up the bulk of the lunar highlands crust and give it the light colour that is visible from Earth . |
| 23 | He referred to plans to develop social programmes and infrastructure projects as a ‘ vision that I hope will sustain Hong Kong during the present period of uncertainty and give us all confidence in our ability to overcome whatever problems confront us ’ . |
| 24 | Occasionally , when there 's an unpredicted peak , he 'll use overtime and give people time off in lieu . |
| 25 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that many people who choose to work more than 48 hours per week , and who thereby earn overtime and give greater security to their families , would be most upset if an edict from Brussels took the right to work such overtime away from them , especially as hon. Members would be excluded from the rules , as would the bureaucrats in Europe and all managers and executives ? |
| 26 | They spoke good Spanish : if they promised to interpret for me , I said , I 'd rent a car and give them a ride . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd rather just take the gear and give them nothing ’ pretends Richard , smiling . |
| 28 | An ex-IBMer on a British Rail sleeper recently complained he could put his VISA card into a machine somewhere 35,000 feet up , and put his computer in-bleeper to the phone mouthpiece , and it would automatically dial up his E-mail and give him his messages . |
| 29 | The recordings , which are brought to life through a variety of voices and sound effects , aid fluency and give confidence with pronunciation . |
| 30 | 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 . |