Example sentences of "they gave [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They gave such lyrical names to almost every place they seized , thus perpetuating their memory for ever . |
| 2 | They gave that guarantee . |
| 3 | Yes , I 've got yeah I know they did , but I think after a while they stopped doing that I think the latest ones you 'll find do n't , do n't do that , they gave , you know , after a while they gave that up , but I , I must check on that , I must check on . |
| 4 | Whatever benefits were conferred by the phenothiazines , they gave little help to patients who were suffering from excessive mood swings or who had entered into long periods of helpless depression . |
| 5 | Arsenal really do keep things tight ; they gave little or no room in which to manoeuvre . |
| 6 | They gave each other presents at the Hanukha-Christmas festival , and the rector showed me his latest gift , a book with the inscription ‘ To my friend the rector , from his friend , the rabbi ’ . |
| 7 | The further assumption must be that they gave each other a great deal that was worth having and keeping . |
| 8 | Because the men were serving together in what was essentially a small box with loopholes for machine-guns , their morale was high , for they gave each other mutual psychological support . |
| 9 | They gave each other nicknames — Hayward was known as " Tarantula " because of his sometimes acidulous wit , Morley as " Whale " , Faber as " Coot " , and Eliot as " Elephant " ( because he never forgot ) or of course Possum " . |
| 10 | They nearly always ate together ; they gave each other all they had that was especially valuable ; they shared the same house , slept under the same roof . " |
| 11 | They gave each other space . |
| 12 | That victory of ours was the first to which they gave less than their usual measure of approval . |
| 13 | There were different kinds of customary tenure , but they had in common the fact that they gave some protection to the unfree man against arbitrary expropriation . |
| 14 | Well at least they gave some to some old concentration |
| 15 | And there then this was discontinued in they gave this beer to keep for lack of exercise keep them regular . |
| 16 | After giving a successful benefit concert ( they gave several while in the country — ( 6 ) ) , the Mozarts had planned to visit Kent , though unfortunately Leopold fell ill . |
| 17 | Typically subjects either described at length one feature of interest ignoring all others , or else they gave several brief cryptic comments which could not unambiguously assigned to particular objects in the film . |
| 18 | They gave these as reasons under the anonymity of a questionnaire . |
| 19 | Er the home office really did n't know what they were talking about they gave these two models of the unpaid volunteer er no uniform , no training , no powers , to come out from the community work with the community under the eyes and ears of the police . |