Example sentences of "gave them [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It pandered to their inflated notion of their own importance ; and the restiveness of the working class during this early phase of Russian industrialization gave them renewed hope that they had at last found a willing instrument for their revolutionary dreams . |
| 2 | The Founders appeared in the prospectus as holders of a Golden Share which gave them six powers . |
| 3 | Charged with obscenity the magistrates gave them six months hard labour each . |
| 4 | They also gave them general intelligence tests so that they could exclude the effects of variations in intelligence . |
| 5 | As a matter of fact er as the years went by we got this benevolent fund and we used to give all the old w as a mat we got a pension fund I know it do n't sound much now , but at that time like during and just after the War we paid twelve and sixpence a week pension to all everybody who 'd retired from the union after they 'd done time , and we also gave them extra grants and took them on er you know outings until a time I said , Well we 're spending all this money on outings , we could buy a bungalow at the seaside and let them all go you know pensioners go in their turn free . |
| 6 | I then took all the cabinets and gave them deep-dish handles , plus I used the old logo from the early '50s and expanded it length-wise on a computer , to see how it looked . |
| 7 | The Victorian entrepreneurs did not miss the extraordinary opportunities offered by the business of travel and Cook and his descendants had many rivals who gave them keen competition . |
| 8 | Recently , TCS entered into an agreement with Lotus Development Corporation that gave them exclusive distribution rights for the whole range of Recently there was uproar in India following ‘ body shopping ’ by American software firms . |
| 9 | Opposition Sajudis members objected , without effect , to the timing of the election on the grounds that it gave them inadequate time for preparation . |
| 10 | So Father Kleinsorge got a large piece of grass and drew out the stem so as to make a straw , and gave them all water to drink that way . |
| 11 | Suffering badly — as usual — from boils ( he gave them all nicknames ) — ‘ it 's the badness coming out , ’ they would say — disenfranchised in the great educational paperchase , neither a macho miner nor a successful exception , he was a nobody in the middle of nowhere with no prospects . |
| 12 | The members walked to the ‘ handsome restaurant erected on the very summit of the Head ’ where Mr Burt gave them all lunch . |
| 13 | That 's happened , I could n't get any one year I took the triplets to the erm Goose Hill coffee morning in the Town Hall and I gave them all money for the tombola and one of them won a Creme Egg |
| 14 | It is significant that the Romans gave them first place , whereas the Chinese valued them above gold , inferior only to jade . |
| 15 | We gave them two addresses to which they could write in case we did not return and told them where our more precious belongings were . |
| 16 | ‘ Marseille lead the group and remain the favourites to go through , but we gave them two goals of a start at Ibrox and still drew with the French on a night when injury prevented us from having Ally McCoist . ’ |
| 17 | In return he gave them other ground at the rear of the church and also on the right-hand side of the new road and bordering Killicomaine Road . |
| 18 | No one denied that ICI gave them first-class products . |
| 19 | Pieces of pine from apple cases became cricket bats , tennis rackets or hockey sticks and gave them endless hours of pleasure . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , then , ’ pointed out Rose reassuringly , ‘ you gave them five days ’ warning to get their poison ready , plus another seven days down here . ’ |
| 21 | Local authorities assumed something like their present form after the Local Government Act of 1888 , which gave them greater powers to raise funds and pass by-laws . |
| 22 | By-employments such as basket-making , hemp-dressing and wild-fowling gave them additional security . |
| 23 | So strategic was the city 's position that the present inhabitants claim that the dwellers were a people in their own right even by the time of the Roman conquest , and that when Julius Caesar gave them Roman citizenship they were already famed as an industrious , peaceable , practical people with a legendary ability to confront any misadventures with incredible resources of energy . |
| 24 | And she always gave them good measure and did an awful trade . |
| 25 | That , however , is to ignore the efforts of several bishops over many years to secure some lasting settlement between a wilful king and his resentful subjects ; the lateness of their conversion to deposition — under duress or in despair — is rather to their credit than otherwise ; as for the fiercest episcopal opponents of the king , their experience gave them good grounds for believing that the church 's liberties would be better protected under another king . |
| 26 | The garden had to be shared with the bottom flat , so a dividing wall was built which gave them total privacy . |
| 27 | On the Etive slabs Rab and Chris Anderson climbed three lines on the section of slab some 70m right of the Coffin Stone , and gave them punny names as usual . |
| 28 | She cut corners , gave them short-term memories borrowed from a pair of marshals she had Dreamed for Neutrino Junction , and had them limit their thoughts to immediate matters . |
| 29 | Eliza 's priorities were as a mother , and if Gould had some sympathy with this , it gave them little ground for compromise . |
| 30 | She says the Foreign Office gave them little information . |