Example sentences of "gave them [adj] " 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 January polls gave them 7 per cent of the vote , guaranteeing federal seats . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Hatton was so impressed by his bad boys that he gave them colourful 1930s ‘ punk rock ’ pseudonyms — Alf Artful , Billy Dustup and Reggie Smashem — which are no more suggestive of obedience and docility than other pre-war descriptions of brawls , affrays , legless drunks , or street robbers armed with sand-bags and cut-throat razors . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Opposition Sajudis members objected , without effect , to the timing of the election on the grounds that it gave them inadequate time for preparation . |
| 12 | Their closely cropped hair and the drawn pale look of hunger in their faces gave them that terrifying animal uniformity which falls over all human beings in permanent physical distress . |
| 13 | Ferguson added : ‘ When Eric joined Leeds last season , he gave them that extra bit which enabled them win the title . |
| 14 | The Keynesian Yellow Book , fortified by a sharp and confident pamphlet , We Can Conquer Unemployment , gave them that . |
| 15 | But Mum just gave them one of her black looks and elbowed her way past the two women and went into Granny 's house . |
| 16 | He conducted a visitation every five years , when he went there and interviewed each individual member of the community and finally gave them all a charge . |
| 17 | So I gave them up , gave them all up . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Ad enuff have you , boy ? ’ he said picking him up and with that he gave them all a brisk wave and disappeared down the steps , closing the hatch quickly behind him . |
| 20 | ‘ And we gave them all the chance to have a share in the profits . |
| 21 | Dr Reid gave them all a wave . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The members walked to the ‘ handsome restaurant erected on the very summit of the Head ’ where Mr Burt gave them all lunch . |
| 24 | I gave them all to you based on the key of , of C Now . |
| 25 | About half the tables in the hotel dining-room were occupied but Wycliffe , with Kersey and Lucy Lane , was placed in one of the window embrasures which gave them all the privacy they could have wished . |
| 26 | I gave them all I had , too , which amounted to 51. 2s. 4d . |
| 27 | But I can tell you it gave them all a good laugh in casualty when they discovered what had happened . ’ |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | all creatures great and small , all things wise and wo wonderful , the lord God gave them all . |
| 30 | Erm sorry I gave them all away I 'm afraid mhm yeah so er I 'm tempted to start rolling again in a moment so would you like to make an announcement yeah ? |