Example sentences of "gave them " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gave them a three-hour lecture on the basic principles of stochastics , he said . |
| 2 | ‘ Both were brought in from the garden — home grown — and never left the kitchen until Cook gave them to Edith for the table . |
| 3 | Perhaps it would have been too easy : they 'd made love the first night they met , both involved with women who gave them pain . |
| 4 | The Major and the minister and the constable repeated it after him in low voices , the crowd gave them a round of applause , the reel was over . |
| 5 | We also gave them colour , length , and brightness illusions . |
| 6 | I gave them money , full of pride that I was richer than at least one English person , even if he was a beggar . |
| 7 | On the Etive slabs Rab and Chris Anderson climbed three lines on the section of slab some 70m right of the Coffin Stone , and gave them punny names as usual . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | That gave them their one-way bet . |
| 10 | It gave them something more than local interest to build on . |
| 11 | We wrote these extraordinary shows , and then I just put on a dinner-jacket , started singing and gave them up . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He gave them this morning . |
| 13 | Now the couple had expected it was dead and we gave them false hope . |
| 14 | I looked across and gave them a wave and wondered if they would still be alive next time I visited Breville . |
| 15 | Fully 77 per cent of our panel throughout the campaign rated these issues as ‘ extremely important ’ for their voting choice , but television news gave them less coverage than defence , though more than unemployment and inflation . |
| 16 | The officials who sent them off from the ports with the loaded railway-wagons gave them rations for the number of days which the grain would in normal times take to its destination . |
| 17 | Clifford says that when he and Flt Sgt L Lewis suggested the idea of a magazine to the station commander , Wing Commander Leslie Bennet , MC , he gave them every encouragement and support . |
| 18 | Or he gave them the impression that he wrestled , with limbs contorted , in the effort to seize hold of what truth could be found . |
| 19 | Later Ramsey used to mock the complacency of clergymen who said that their training college gave them habits of devotion ‘ which they had never lost ’ . |
| 20 | He conducted a visitation every five years , when he went there and interviewed each individual member of the community and finally gave them all a charge . |
| 21 | They took me to West End Central and , instead of telling them what had really happened , I gave them a story . |
| 22 | Their deafening boom tossed up lunar rainbows ; and Fenna gave them to Maggie for playthings and they dissolved in dark brightness between her fingers . |
| 23 | At independence governments for the most part gave them preference over entrepreneurs from immigrant groups . |
| 24 | At the hill beyond the village he gave them money . |
| 25 | Moran gave them a pound , Rose took a red ten-shilling note from her handbag and they left in the same whirl as they had entered , dancing and singing all the way out to the lorry . |
| 26 | So I gave them up , gave them all up . |
| 27 | So I gave them up , gave them all up . |
| 28 | ‘ O.K. ’ He gave them an incredulous glance and said sarcastically , ‘ stop me if I 'm boring you . |
| 29 | Frau Nordern gave them a contemptuous glance and the Sergeant coughed . |
| 30 | Karl waved a hand , a brown-uniformed attendant gave them a respectful salute , and they sauntered out . |