Example sentences of "give [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | STEWART KENNEDY : ‘ I 'LL GIVE THEM FIVE . ’ |
| 2 | to what people have asked for , rather than just saying , I mean , it would be very easy , if you said , right , all the people who 've applied , we 'll give them five hundred pound each . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Do n't give them sole selling rights , because you will have to pay them commission even if you sell your property privately . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | It will give them crucial details about his shoe size and probable height and weight . |
| 7 | Well we 'll just give them one more swish . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | I could n't say , You 'd give them such a shock that it 'd come as small fry when Darling Bina said she wanted a career on the stage . |
| 10 | instead , arranging activities together will help the young person to know that you care and will give them other things to do . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Their reward must be such as may give them that rank in society which so important a trust requires . |
| 14 | We will give them that chance . |
| 15 | Edward Miall argued in the 1840s that giving the vote to the working class would give them that sense of citizen responsibility which they were said to lack , and that as a result the middle class would be able to " lead them almost whithersoever they please . " |
| 16 | Does n't the media give them that now ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ They did n't give them that , ’ says Felicity . |
| 18 | There 'd been a lot of changes under the malais , I 'll give them that , even if most of the development was for reasons of military necessity and accomplished , like the Japanese for whom they had more than a sneaking admiration , with forced-draft labour . |
| 19 | They were not incompetents , I 'll give them that . |
| 20 | Shall I give them that ? |
| 21 | Well , well interesting programme , I 'll give them that though . |
| 22 | Above all , show them that you care and will give them all the support and help you can — even if they are in trouble with the law |
| 23 | If there are already several pictures in the room , you could give them all the same style of frame . |
| 24 | If you are lucky enough to own any old sepia family photographs , it can look extremely attractive to arrange a collection of them on a wall , as you can then give them all co-ordinating mounts that are decorated with your favourite pressed flowers , or perhaps choose some flowers that are appropriate to the family . |
| 25 | Furious radio hams feared Mr Reenan 's behaviour would give them all a bad name . |
| 26 | What he did not know was that the Government , by the next day , would be anxious to retreat from the formula , and that the miners ' executive , having dispersed itself from London , would give them all day in which to do so . |
| 27 | Oh well there are four of them there so why not give them all and I 'll cut this pizza into |
| 28 | I 'll just give them all a little bit of a massage , shall I ? ’ |
| 29 | Keith used to just give them all twenty pence , but lately it 's been more . |
| 30 | Before God , I 'd give them all up just to see her again , just to touch her ! |