Example sentences of "give them [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is because we 've given them good service over the past three years . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've given them good service — 130 goals in 140-odd games — and feel good for a few more seasons . ’ |
| 3 | It also must have given them much-needed protection , for the seas at this time were tyrannised by the huge , two-metre-long sea scorpions armed with massive claws which fed on the smaller creatures of the sea floor . |
| 4 | I can write , you know you 've given them middle names , you know , that suitable middle names |
| 5 | Many of the prominent citizens , when their origins can be traced , were drawn from the lesser landed class , who may have given them moral or financial support . |
| 6 | That 's it an approved credit guideline and er that is the problem at the moment that the approved er credit guideline for the non T S G schemes is really insufficient and is having to be propped up er from elsewhere within the budget , your Chairman yesterday met with the er gentleman er the suited gentleman from Bedford and , and er having er given them appropriate cups of coffee er , impressed upon them that the er the one point two was really insufficient for one or two million er , er credit approvals was really insufficient for the needs of Suffolk and er they went away did they not Chairman saying that they er appreciated the point whether you had success or not or perhaps to er wait until December ? |
| 7 | Instead of going home to forget he took BR to court , having given them ample opportunity to avoid proceedings , and won . |
| 8 | The French government have given them strong support , Britain , along with West Germany and the USA , is still anxious to keep the mining options open , however — WWF News International . |
| 9 | How many employee employers , I E British Home Stores , have paid off their full-time staff and given them part-time only employment . |
| 10 | For example , they have argued against almost every EC directive which would have improved women 's poor position in the work force , increased their opportunities and given them increased freedom to work . |
| 11 | Since the 1920s women have been free of the burden of high fertility which previously would have given them young children to cope with for more than two decades of their adult life . |
| 12 | Large figure-of-eight shields were depicted on the walls of the East Wing of the Labyrinth , possibly to indicate that the building was under divine protection ; the dappled hides of which the shields were made presumably came from the bull , the sacred beast , and this may have given them additional prophylactic value . |
| 13 | The segregation of servants from the family had already begun at Coleshill , the ancestor of the Palladian houses of the eighteenth century , where Roger Pratt , who believed that a house should be ‘ so contrived … that the ordinary servants may never publicly appear in passing to and from for their occasions there ’ , had given them separate rooms , adjacent to their masters , so that they no longer slept at his door or at the foot of his bed . |
| 14 | I have dusted down others and given them sacrilegious new twists , incorporating nuts into rolypoly , for example , and using kumquats instead of lemons for old-fashioned Sussex Pond Pudding . |
| 15 | Both writers and readers are affected by generally accepted ideas , without necessarily having given them independent thought . |
| 16 | One can understand why people at risk should wish to have these things , but not why they should expect to be given them free . |
| 17 | We 've had times when we 've written to commercials and given them free tickets to dig ourselves out of a hole and things . |
| 18 | But , but the other thing about giving them a standardised test at the re , when when they first arrived with us , is when you get the parent who comes and says well how they were level five in the primary school and you 've only given them level four ? |
| 19 | I do not think that the hon. Member for Edinburgh , Central , his hon. Friends or the majority of my hon. Friends would say that the Government were wrong , rather than giving no status to people who have been in this country for a number of years , to have given them exceptional leave to remain . |
| 20 | Wild Country have totally redesigned their Gore-Tex mountain mitts , given them non-slip palms and added some technical , sticky gloves inside ! |
| 21 | Many will have been wearing a special costume for their childhood which has given them particular concealment . |
| 22 | The Kenyons say Neil Brown 's victory has given them immense satisfaction . |
| 23 | All citizens need a highly concentrated er episode in their lives where all they do is think about what is right in the circumstances and this will give them good practice , good training to being an enlightened voter . |
| 24 | Do n't give them sole selling rights , because you will have to pay them commission even if you sell your property privately . |
| 25 | ‘ I would have had no objection to telling them the position , in all honesty we could have done that and I may give them advance warning next year . ’ |
| 26 | It will give them crucial details about his shoe size and probable height and weight . |
| 27 | First came the minstrels , yelling war songs , and when they had finished they tore off their mantles and threw them down before the Empress , saying now that they had fought for her such clothes were no longer worthy of them and would she give them new ones ? |
| 28 | instead , arranging activities together will help the young person to know that you care and will give them other things to do . |
| 29 | The saga , which was illustrated with his own naïve pen-and-ink drawings , had its origins in the compassion he had felt for the sufferings of the animals in the past war ( ‘ If we made [ them ] take the same chances as we did ourselves , why did we not give them similar attention when wounded ? ’ ) and in the letters about an imaginary horse surgery that he had written home from the front to his two children , Elizabeth and Colin ( the latter of whom habitually called himself Dr Dolittle ) . |
| 30 | The social worker can give them emotional support too , strengthening any network of support that already exists from relatives , friends and neighbours , or trying to form one for them if they are in a position of isolation . |