Example sentences of "give them [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So many returners admit to stage fright at the beginning of a re-entry programme , only to find that the expectations of managers and colleagues are much more realistic than they have given them credit for . |
| 2 | The siege has given them publicity for their ideas , of course , but what they really want , to save Liam 's life , is something quite different . |
| 3 | The exception to this is the police , who have had by far the largest addition to that , they have n't lost money when they lost S S A , erm , we have been ge , extremely generous to them , far more than to any other committee this year , erm , and although we have n't given them money for , to pay awards because we do n't know exactly what it is . |
| 4 | we 've given them assurance that we will provide the level of service |
| 5 | ‘ We have now allocated five new frequencies to BR and given them access to two others . ’ |
| 6 | It was painstakingly worked out as a way of preventing some women — usually those whose privileged access to higher education had given them confidence and articulacy in public speaking — from dominating and silencing others . |
| 7 | Professor de Bono , there are well-established scales , particularly in the States , measuring long term stress and anxiety that we can use in rehabilitated patients to demonstrate that not only have the cardiologists given them years , but Doctor Bethell and his team have given them quality . |
| 8 | Jean-Claude helped the men up our four flights of stairs with their cumbersome delivery and , having given them beer , rewarded them with a generous tip . |
| 9 | But once they 're there , once you 've given them headroom , they seem pretty determined to stick around . |
| 10 | A programme does not have to be conventionally ‘ nine to five , structured but participants are more likely to accommodate themselves to unusual arrangements if you 've given them time for themselves . |
| 11 | Old people are no fools , and can easily be hurt ; so however many things you have on your mind to be done when you get home , never leave them feeling that you have given them time that you have grudgingly spared . |
| 12 | I 'd given them time to look for someone to replace me permanently . |
| 13 | Pat Nevin 's signing has given them balance with a two wingers system that is committed to attacking . |
| 14 | It was the boy they had talked to in the Coptic Place of the Dead , the one who had given them information — and kicked Georgiades on the shin . |
| 15 | The masses were uneducated and the producers had given them rubbish , but what had really ensured ‘ the bloodlessness of the American film ’ was that with intellectuals alienated and excluded there had been ‘ no intelligent body ’ to shape the new medium . |
| 16 | So he was given them coffee . |
| 17 | Owning the Parrot had given them status . |
| 18 | They go to Phoenix on Saturday to play a team which has given them trouble in the past . |
| 19 | Erm it may have been deliberate in that how the Par Party could n't be seen as too radical in order to maintain er as broad a support as possible and allow the peasants to erm give them leeway to do what they wanted to do , but erm it 's quite interesting though that whatever the Communist Party did , people were going to respond in which ever way they wanted to whether or not there was a law there , but they still had to sort of erm establish their legitimacy . |
| 20 | Being able to work on Sunday would give them flexibility in their contract work , which included the Bangor by-pass and Pen-y-Clip tunnel . |
| 21 | It was still dark and cold , so , to raise their spirits , they sang a hymn to the sun-god , the great Daybog , calling on him to rise and give them warmth and light . |
| 22 | and they can all give them work . |
| 23 | I 'm surprised they get work permits cos America wo n't give them work permits will they ? |
| 24 | It was never a question of somebody saying ‘ we have a depression , let's give them depression movies ’ but given the new dispensation it was Hollywood 's instinct to come up with just that added edge that the age required in its films . |
| 25 | Here , where it cut the highway , the steep bank of the river would give them protection from the full force of the hurricane . |
| 26 | But none of them would be tempted to incorporate : capital is already available to them ; incorporation would not give them protection from litigation ; and , perhaps most importantly , they would lose their most precious asset — and their achilles heel — their privacy . |
| 27 | Much rests on cross-curricular elements , but unless enmeshed as an integral part of the overall curriculum , assessment and testing systems which will give them parity of esteem with other elements , they are likely to be ignored , or to remain peripheral . |
| 28 | The polytechnics support vouchers because they believe that the system will give them parity of resources with the universities by allowing them to compete for students on equal terms . |
| 29 | ‘ It needs an English residence to make them thoroughly comprehensible , but still I should think that human nature would give them success anywhere . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ No , Frank , do n't give them brandy , ’ begged Bathsheba , ‘ it will only do them harm ! ’ |