Example sentences of "but [verb] them the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may not always be too keen on having to wash with it … but give them the chance to make a big splash somewhere and they will never be any happier . |
| 2 | She no longer kept them in cages but allowed them the run of the house and garden . |
| 3 | The prime aim of the Marriott fellowship is not to turn chemists into budding journalists , but to give them the chance to see some of the opportunities available in scientific publishing without committing themselves . |
| 4 | Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote . |
| 5 | The–e be put with their mother into the greenhouse , but visiting them the next day found that only five chicks still had legs . |