Example sentences of "[vb pp] they the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 See people at San Carlos hungry and given them the rest .
2 That point applies to nurses at the basic level , but it is even more important when they become a more valuable resource after their post-basic education has given them the ability to prescribe .
3 Having given them the song , it was a hit and that 's when Tony DeFries picked up the management .
4 But next to the Dance Hall if we 'd given them the licence to ha turn the cinema into a Dance Hall , there was this little old boy who lived just the other side of the road , in an old cottage , and he was over eighty .
5 Somewhere and somehow she 'd given them the slip , shinned down the mat of Virginia creeper in the darkness and scuttled across the lawn to hide .
6 They were determined to confront the English Heritage inspector , but it soon became clear he 'd given them the slip .
7 She 'd even given them the evidence herself .
8 I had given them the idea that maybe they would become torturers . ’
9 It had been Mme Guérigny 's and Montaine 's intimacy with the creatures of the forest that had given them the idea of hiding their deserter in the cave .
10 We must also recognise that we have not given them the support and management guidance on practical recruitment that they , as volunteers , need .
11 He was pondering how to chat him up without attracting too much attention from Blanche and Eddy , when he heard the superintendent ask the man from the Drugs Squad who exactly had given them the tip-off in the first place .
12 It 's too easy , I think , to assume that women are n't aggressive and are sensitive and men are more aggressive and less sensitive because that 's the way society has wanted them to be in the past and children have grown up and lived up to those stereotypes , so I do n't think we can actually say yet that women can offer anything distinctive until we 've given them the chance to be themselves really .
13 I 've found as a music teacher the best classroom situation … is where I 'm completely an onlooker ; having given them the stimulus , they 've done all the build-up , they 've done the preparation , they 've got the task .
14 They are now mothers with the responsibility for a child , and some of them would maintain that it is their baby that has given them the determination to do something more with their lives , however hard this may be .
15 My right hon. and learned Friend the Chief Secretary has given them the figures on investment in this country and they are rather good .
16 Keyhole cockpits are now almost universal but high density polyethylene is still unique to Prijon and has given them the edge in plastic white water kayak design .
17 ‘ We 've called up the PR firm we normally liaise with and given them the name of the hotel you 're booked into .
18 Those in the agricultural contracting business who had attended said that ATB courses had given them the confidence and skill to undertake these jobs .
19 We had given them the prospect of an out in the five years and they did very well out of their investment . ’
20 God placed the enforcing of Satan 's defeat in the hands of His servants and He has given them the authority .
21 He had n't given them the satisfaction of firing him there and then ; he 'd shown them the contempt he felt for them … let them suffer !
22 Well would you perhaps like to give them a , a ring to , to say what I spoke about today then I 'll give them a ring , say if you could ring them tomorrow then I 'll ring them er er tomorrow evening a as well and then perhaps I can , you know , they , you 've given them the ground work to actually er for me to ring as well and then I can discuss with him and arrange an appointment to go and see him is that okay ?
23 My all-time favourite remark was made by a visiting Chesterfield supporter who watched silently as his team prepared to take a penalty in the dying seconds of a game at Barnsley which would have given them the draw .
24 I have given them the danger peak flow value of 100 , and if it falls below this they will come to casualty .
25 They were married in February 1949 and Daphne Rye , who had given them the reception , encouraged Sybil to move into Pelham Crescent .
26 Not only did the Bills fail to get the win which would have won them the AFC East division and secured home advantage throughout the play-offs , but finished the game with quarterback Jim Kelly nursing a knee ligament injury .
27 It was the Edinburgh man 's only success from four attempts , and with Nick White failing with four attempts earlier in the game , the Scots squandered opportunities that should have won them the game comfortably .
28 Had England held a few more catches , that could have won them the match ; as it was , an all-out total of 307 meant victory for West Indies by 134 runs .
29 Party members and SA men , who in 1933 had seen themselves as posing a radical , populist alternative to the conservative Reichswehr , now took a back seat and simply provided the setting for the triumphant reception of young officers of the Wehrmacht , heroes home on leave from the Front recounting tales of stirring deeds which had earned them the Ritterkreuz .
30 NORTHAMPTON 'S 3–1 victory over Second Division Fulham in the FA Cup first round has earned them the vote from Graham Taylor 's panel as the Barclays Performance of the Week .
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