They say other publishers would have given the foundation a contribution of several million dollars but that their efforts were ignored.

The publisher gave her three years to deliver the manuscript.

The new publishers were giving him a launch party and wanted names for the guest list.

The publisher gave the test questions to a sample of students in different cities.

With so serious and popular an author, it is unlikely that the publisher, Penguin, gave much thought to length.

It's the kind of book a publisher would give his good right arm to publish.

I never knew either of them before my publisher gave me the green light.

The printer and publisher give no name at all.

But publishers "wouldn't give me the time of day," he recalled.

"But we have no capital, and the publisher will not give them in advance."