Example sentences of "they had give " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to the squalor , residents suffered from prejudice when they had to give a Springtown address . |
| 2 | Newspaper correspondents and representatives of the Ministry of Information were frequent visitors to Burma , and we did our best to give them what news we had , to tell them about government hopes and plans , and to extract from them any news and wisdom they had to give us . |
| 3 | There was never any question that the movies would become political or radical as the showmen were as opposed to Socialism and labour unions as their fellow American businessmen and , in any case , they remained firmly of the opinion that what they had to give their public was entertainment . |
| 4 | I was drug-free , like , so they had to give me them back . |
| 5 | ‘ Historically , people have looked to Europe as a place to make up the profit margins they had to give away in the States , ’ Apple spokesperson Frank O'Mahoney admitted to me immediately before launching into a lengthy explanation of how computer prices in Europe are now tumbling to less obscene levels . |
| 6 | So eventually the they had to give in in the end . |
| 7 | They had to give it a quarter turn you see with a spanner . |
| 8 | Despite desperate attempts to revive her , the trace remained stubbornly flat , until in the end they had to give up . |
| 9 | The government 's listening centre at Cheltenham hit the headlines in 1984 , when staff were told they had to give up union membership . |
| 10 | It has a weird effect , so bad one day that they had to give me valium to take off my bandages because I could n't handle it any more . |
| 11 | Then er on a Saturdays our slaughterhouse was , our slaughterhouse was still open up the street then and we used to perhaps kill twelve , fourteen pigs for private people , but they had to give their ration up , six months ' or twelve months ' ration up to have these pigs . |
| 12 | They had to give me a brandy , I were in a right state me ! |
| 13 | to get rid of the abscess , oh god it was painful , it really was , in fact I had it once , I had a load of penicillin , did n't finish the penicillin and it came back again and they had to give me a stronger drug then for five days |
| 14 | If they were freemen , they had to give up their right to graze in Port Meadow , because erm the hay was to be grown there , to be promised to His Majesty . |
| 15 | Sophie moreover actually had a job , had an income , which was beginning to be something of a pressing issue , inflation and the changing climate began to bite into their indifferent superiority to the outside world and they had given no thought as to how to fight that . |
| 16 | There had never been any doubt in her mind that she would look after her parents in their old age : they had given up a lot for her , she said , and that was how she could repay them . |
| 17 | In such discussions Zuwaya generally assumed that they had given offence unwittingly , and that malign actions were always done by others , requiring Zuwaya to pursue justice . |
| 18 | Critics then and now say that Nonconformity did not create a new architecture after they had given up the old seventeenth and eighteenth-century meeting house . |
| 19 | Up until then , they had given Sale an object lesson in the art of taking limited chances with a couple of tries from the ubiquitous Morris , who seems a genuine open side . |
| 20 | They had given up . |
| 21 | That 's why they had given him his Wings . |
| 22 | It was clear that the responses they had given to the respective campaign teams were not necessarily accurate . |
| 23 | It appeared that The Smiths thought they had given enough exposure to James and that Factory were now taking advantage of the situation . |
| 24 | Half an hour later , I was in a forest eating the bread they had given me . |
| 25 | The addicts thought they were injecting a synthetic heroin , instead they had given themselves a permanent Parkinson-like condition . |
| 26 | Well , the lids of these racks rattled like mad as they put the hay in to feed the sheep after they had given birth . |
| 27 | They accused him of altering the figures on receipts for money they had given for the release of prisoners , handing over a smaller sum to creditors and pocketing the difference ; charging prisoners for candles ; taking £5 out of the Poor Box to free a prisoner ; lending them money on their plate and watches which belonged to their creditors . |
| 28 | If they had given the matter any thought , however , and some incident had alerted them to the dangers of being too relaxed , there was no doubt they would have strained every muscle to elude the worst poverty . |
| 29 | The mothers told her they had given their children , who ranged in age from six to 17 , as much information as they could . |
| 30 | They had given out that he had died of typhoid . |