give somebody space

I try to give her space, usually we talk only two, three times a week.

But they would just have to give her space and make do.

Students are given a specific study space in which to do their work.

We have to give events time and space to play themselves out.

"We must be given space to deal with our problems."

That gave me working space to attack the real job.

Wasn't he giving her the time and space to do just that?

"Give them space and time to go work through the process," he says.

It also gives you time and space simply to think.

It turned out we gave him more space than necessary.