Example sentences of "they gave [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arguments were upsetting , but they gave them a burning desire to win — to prove officialdom wrong . |
| 2 | They were er anybody that knows about moleskin , and there very heavy material er and apart from being hard-wearing , I suppose they , in the winter time , they gave them a wee bit of warmth in their legs etcetera . |
| 3 | they gave them a three year trial period , to see how attractive they could make the service . |
| 4 | When Greg offered to drive her they gave him a similar warning . |
| 5 | He immediately queried the instructions and eventually they gave him a new course to steer . |
| 6 | They gave him a good room , and ‘ here therefore we settled , ’ he said , ‘ and did not spoil the present hour with thoughts of departure . ’ |
| 7 | In one of his rare public reflective moments , he looked back on the three women in his early life , Mud , Lorraine and June , with gratitude because they gave him a good start , independence and the belief that he could always take care of himself , come what may . |
| 8 | Hubert Gaily liked churchyards , they gave him a curious sense of well-being . |
| 9 | He was willing , if they gave him a suitable hostage to ensure their good faith , to allow Berwick ten more days of siege , whereafter , if they were not relieved by the so-called Regent , they must surrender . |
| 10 | So they gave him a special job . ’ |
| 11 | FORMER Goon Harry Secombe , who has had a second home in Majorca for the past 15 years , reckoned he had finally been accepted by the locals when they gave him the Spanish name El Gordo . |
| 12 | ‘ They gave me no specific reason why they stopped me and I am just worried they could stop any innocent people , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Oh very much so , yes new devotion , size , erm , it , it in one or two of these erm they gave me a definite feel and to a , to a , it new I was trying to write |
| 14 | ‘ They gave me a part-time job , so they must have liked me ! ’ she says . |
| 15 | I say ‘ solitary c. ’ because they gave me a little ward of my own , but it was anything but uncomfortable , as they gave me a treatment which ‘ private ward ’ patients in Britain might envy , except that the food of course was Chinese , and they insisted on giving me 5 meals a day , so that I had some trouble getting my appetite back to normal . |
| 16 | When I came round they gave me a large tot of whisky , another injection of morphia and sent me off to Imtarfa , as drunk as a lord . |
| 17 | ‘ They gave me a quick sponge down and the second take worked . |
| 18 | They gave me a bad time — they 'd all been in since they were seventeen and they were hard men . |
| 19 | and I visited their friends and went to their church with them and they gave me a wonderful time , did everything for me |
| 20 | Not only was Pumblechook 's elbow in my eye , but I was n't allowed to speak , and they gave me the worst pieces of meat . |
| 21 | On the second day they gave her a rubber ball attached on a long elastic thread to a wooden bat . |
| 22 | They gave it a thousand letters they gave it money |
| 23 | They gave it a clean bill of health . |
| 24 | Scientists did not help matters when they gave it the generic name Oreamnos , meaning ‘ mountain lamb ’ . |
| 25 | When you went to the Ideal Home Exhibition they gave you a hot sausage on a stick to eat — with pickle , not just a picture of one to look at . |
| 26 | They gave us a thousand pound , that is really very important , I think , and we 're most grateful . |
| 27 | They gave us a consolidated figure of various numbers of P W's that are held , and of the numbers of erm dead that are held . |
| 28 | At ten o'clock they gave us a handsome club sweater , which was so generous we decided to let someone else win the domino handicap . |
| 29 | ‘ They gave us a free trip over , ’ he said . |
| 30 | They enabled the sisters to honour their own privacy needs and they gave us a clear sense of personal identity . |