Example sentences of "but [pers pn] gave they " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said I was n't sure , but I gave them a phone number which I knew to be Nassim 's office above a leather warehouse in Brick Lane . |
| 2 | But we gave them a lesson . |
| 3 | ‘ Marseille lead the group and remain the favourites to go through , but we gave them two goals of a start at Ibrox and still drew with the French on a night when injury prevented us from having Ally McCoist . ’ |
| 4 | The arguments were upsetting , but they gave them a burning desire to win — to prove officialdom wrong . |
| 5 | Police were told and tailed Newall but he gave them the slip and fled from Britain on a yacht he inherited from his parents , a court in Gibraltar heard . |
| 6 | But he gave them none of the honours accorded by Anwar Sadat . |
| 7 | He came in with the ideas , give the drivers and conductors everything they asked for whereby my training had always been to only give them what they were really entitled to , not give them anything extra but he gave them the earth and that erm did n't sort of go very well for the new Manager who came in , he had a lot of undoing to do there , that this fella had given away , in his six or seven weeks there . |
| 8 | but he gave them to me practically |
| 9 | Through that , Red Rhino came up with a matching deal which was not very high in terms of money or anything but it gave them some status , certainly with promotion . |
| 10 | Not only did this save the horses the pull up the hill through the village , but it gave them the occasion for one more glimpse of Tamar and the children , who stood on the steps , waving . |