Example sentences of "[conj] i give them [art] " in BNC.
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1 | There were a lot of young drunks staggering about , too — most at that noisy and unattractive stage where they might want to be your pal or pick a fight or just throw up on you , so I gave them a wide berth . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | I went around being nice to children for a while , being a sort of modern Pied Piper , but I learnt that they 're a manipulative lot and crazy for money , literally crazy for it , so I gave them the elbow . |
4 | My legs are warm and I give them a feel . |
5 | Well he , he said if they , if , if , some , get a visitor in and I give them a cup of coffee well that 's all right , but I do n't know if it 's money or , or like maybe , maybe . |
6 | And er I so so I brought her and her three friends that she 'd run , chummed about with them and I give them a good talking to for about an hour . |
7 | And then , all I 've done is worked out some time management and say well if these guys turn up at half past eight every morning and I give them a break at ten o'clock , and they get a lunch break and then in afternoon , another break , and they finish at half past four , if everything goes to plan , by four o'clock Friday , my van should be backing up at the end of the production line to load itself up with a thousand widgets . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | We concluded by singing the carol O Come all ye Faithful and I gave them a blessing . |
10 | When Victor and I gave them the slip at Victoria station they knew we were onto them . |
11 | She has got in ( and out of ) problems with drugs , alcohol and a quasi-religious cult : ’ I was brainwashed and I gave them an enormous amount of money , ’ she says with a shrug . |
12 | At Oxford I discovered that most people were only too willing to be friendly if I gave them a chance . |
13 | If I gave them an order to couple up a full line of maybe ten coaches , I would n't take it for granted that they 'd done it , I 'd walk up the coach , one walk up one side , down the other side and I would n't If there were a heating valve not open , if they forgot that you see , I would n't do it for them , I would go back and I 'd say , that S K third from the back end , the heating valve is not pulled down , you 've missed it , you 'd better When you 're up that way , just pull it down you see . |
14 | The only way people will trust me is if I give them a signed piece of paper with my address on . ’ |
15 | But I give them a so then I saw Mrs on Tuesday when I was at Ashington . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | that do explain a little bit about Abbey Life products and also have a copy of as well erm they might find that of help before I give them a call . |
18 | When I gave them a grenade they had n't found , I got another kick . |
19 | and when I gave them a questionnaire saying how would you label someone as gay they said , we never make those kind of assumptions . |