Example sentences of "gave them a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parliament did not often pass laws with any wide-ranging implications , and the most wide-ranging recent laws , the religious legislation of the Reformation , were never applied at all precisely in America , but no legal framework could have been imagined for the colonies which gave them a legitimate position under English law without putting them under the legislative supremacy of Parliament . |
| 2 | I said to them it was placing the team and the ARFU in a terrible situation and I gave them a 5.30 pm deadline otherwise the tour was off . |
| 3 | Some Arabs in a tent gave them a little water and then the exhausted men finally stumbled into an outpost of the King 's Dragoon Guards . |
| 4 | They were er anybody that knows about moleskin , and there very heavy material er and apart from being hard-wearing , I suppose they , in the winter time , they gave them a wee bit of warmth in their legs etcetera . |
| 5 | Well , in my book nothing comes before football and so I gave them a simple ultimatum : ‘ Make your choice . |
| 6 | The easiest part of the scheme was the raising of the six companies of 70–110 men each , increased in 1739 to ten , and as a concession to national sentiment the new units were allowed to wear the kilt ; its dark tartan , of blue , green and black , soon gave them a distinctive name : the Black Watch . |
| 7 | In due course , all South Metropolitan cars were fitted with these hoops , which gave them a distinctive appearance . |
| 8 | But their education and employment , whether in the bureaucracy or the tertiary sector , gave them a distinctive ‘ technocratic , managerial outlook ’ . |
| 9 | I gave them a bogus address but they did n't check it out . |
| 10 | The bookmakers , showing unusual generosity , gave them a 44-point advantage on the handicap betting list . |
| 11 | Frau Nordern gave them a contemptuous glance and the Sergeant coughed . |
| 12 | She gave them a warm smile . |
| 13 | The Salesian Sisters , who were their hostesses for the weekend , gave them a warm and friendly welcome , and the retreatants quickly settled down in the beautiful house . |
| 14 | England captains must not do things like that , but they had not been able to sack him at the time because of the provocation he had been under ; now that he had stepped out of line again he gave them a heaven-sent opportunity to administer the axe . |
| 15 | He took conservative ideas on privatisation and land reform , gave them a populist anti-government bent and managed to woo over many poorer voters - especially in northern Mexico — who previously feared that the PAN represented only business interests . |
| 16 | Their total of 116 gave them a two-shot win over Mardy MacDonald and daughter Fiona Edmond . |
| 17 | Last time they met , Craig Maskell gave them a 1-0 win on a plate . |
| 18 | Depending on how influential people were , Mickey either nodded at them or gave them a hearty greeting . |
| 19 | It gave them a new sense of opening opportunity , a new reason for raising standards and expectations , new cause to doubt the wisdom of a system which excluded many children from the chance of a full academic education from the age of eleven , and a new hope . |
| 20 | This meant that people were no longer willing to put up with unsatisfactory Church officials ; laymen especially were developing a personal spirituality which gave them a new confidence and commitment to their faith and which also enabled them to form an independent view of theology and Church organisation ; they no longer had to rely on the educated establishment . |
| 21 | Most people are accustomed to follow linguistic rules more or less slavishly , but in this case they would be glad to change if only someone gave them a new set of clear rules to follow ( an earlier work by Miller and Swift was subtitled ‘ New Language in New Times ’ : it seems they take the optimistic view that we are living in a postfeminist world ) . |
| 22 | This gave them a new experience of evaporation , as well as time to draw on their prior experiences . |
| 23 | I hung the carpets out and gave them a good beating . ’ |
| 24 | The folk at Fanmore gave them a good fight last week , and drove them off with five men dead , and they 've not been seen since . |
| 25 | The police at Castlereagh allocated a cell to each man and gave them a good meal . |
| 26 | I was scared of them but I was n't going to let them get away so I gave them a good run for their money . |
| 27 | GHI verdict : Our testers , heavy with cold , found that the vaporiser gave them a good night 's sleep ; even their husbands/partners slept better . |
| 28 | So their own minister held a service at the station , and the agent gave them a good dinner cheering them on in Gaelic , at which they wept , and they went on to settle at Moosomin , where they lived happily ever afterwards . |
| 29 | I gave them a good show , with my writhings and moanings . |
| 30 | So I asked them in the lodge like do n't do any damage and Tom was in e he gave them a good lecture so and the lads in the lodge said , Well look you tell them as well not to do this attitude and perhaps you 've seen it on these flumes when they saw a crowd that was there they were changing gear with the Land Rover and through you know like anybody in the way you 'd be underneath . |