Example sentences of "they give [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos you just sit there and , do you think you can lend me some money , please , I promise I 'll pay you back , and they 'll all give you about ten P , some of them give you fifty , some of them give you twenty got about , I was thinking you could just go in there and save up for all your Christmas shopping could n't you ? |
| 2 | Cos you just sit there and , do you think you can lend me some money , please , I promise I 'll pay you back , and they 'll all give you about ten P , some of them give you fifty , some of them give you twenty got about , I was thinking you could just go in there and save up for all your Christmas shopping could n't you ? |
| 3 | All of them give you fair warning of their character by deliberately making themselves conspicuous and waving their bushy tails . |
| 4 | I 'll tell you if they give me that . |
| 5 | And they give me all the equipment I need . |
| 6 | His pal his workmate was retired and a few months after , Arthur died , so it left me the one and the owners of the property , they give me notice to quit and no messing about er and when I talked to them , they give me twelve months , rate free , to erm get out . |
| 7 | I 'm gon na lift a few mint roots Stefan and er plant them in a box of compost and put them in the warm greenhouse so they give me nice sprigs of fresh mint in a few months ' time . |
| 8 | Even when I can understand all they are saying , they give me little opportunity to reply , so anxious are they to keep up the headlong momentum of their own speech ; then they complain that I say nothing ! |
| 9 | But there was a foreman in the shop , but these did their own job er and er in the about three or four weeks , and I 'm only a kid , erm they had me doing separate jobs you know , not for a gaffer or anything and er they used to , they give me odd jobs as , you know like , to help the men and er it went of like that in till I was eighteen or nineteen , well twenty , that time you were , day , become a man . |
| 10 | ‘ When I go to my clients to collect I always ask if they have any hand-knitted woollen garments they do n't need , and if I 'm lucky they give me some . |
| 11 | They give him poor tips and charge high commissions . |
| 12 | That is probably when they give him that name — the Ángel of Death . ’ |
| 13 | They give them all |
| 14 | Well erm last it annoys me though because cos she said erm Ricoh , when Ricoh worked in there they give her twenty five pound and looked after her horse as well , so |
| 15 | They are intended for those who like to probe into the whys and wherefores of things or who like to assess fully the credentials of a subject before they give it serious consideration . |
| 16 | They give it all the in n it Terry ? |
| 17 | Yes , yes , they give it free , no , no , it 's free , it 's free . |
| 18 | I sha n't take it if it 's something I do n't like you know even if they give it free . |
| 19 | But er , I was giving this er I 'd been giving it a stroke , and er it 's sort of dying to be fussed , but I do n't think they give it any attention across there . |
| 20 | It 's what they put down the lavatory to disinfect the pan only they give it another name . ’ |
| 21 | Now we 've got three points there it 's probably they they give you four here so we 'll do another one erm , when he 's been travelling for five hours how far 's he gone ? |
| 22 | ‘ Make sure they give you extra iron tablets , ’ he told her . |
| 23 | And you go in there and they give you dirty looks , you know . |
| 24 | When you apply to become an AA man they give you six broken cars to get started in half-an-hour . |
| 25 | If they give you one length and an angle then you 'd use either sine or cos or tan to find the other one . |
| 26 | Right so if they give you two s two lengths to fine a third length the easiest way and the most accurate way is use Pythagoras . |
| 27 | How much is it worth when it 's done no miles , well they give you that one anyway . |
| 28 | They tend to say , oh well , he 's black so it 's to be expected , they 're bound to do that , so when they give you that kind of attitude , you think oh well , blow them , if that 's what they think , why not act like that . |
| 29 | And when he gets the other stuff they give you that big bloody beaker full of it ! |
| 30 | They give you all the prizes , too , tins of things you see and for every tin you knock down , you win a tin of something . |