Example sentences of "and they gave [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They dressed and lit him against his character — softening where they ought to have emphasised the toughness — and they gave him a part with no verbal bite and no guts but even so it was not a bad first break for the boy from the snooker halls of Port Talbot . |
| 2 | ‘ Did she come through here ? ’ he demanded of the astonished-looking Chinese family at one of the restaurant 's six plain tables , and they gave him a look of complete incomprehension . |
| 3 | They could have told you what they meant by them and they gave them a currency in terms of their own conduct . |
| 4 | a sociality room whatever , whatever they call it and er , and they gave them a good do really |
| 5 | But they were very kind and they gave me a part in this play , it was called Tilly of Bloomsbury . |
| 6 | So I got the tyre off , and I got the spare on , and put the nuts on , and at the end of it , I gave a bow , and they gave me a round of applause . |
| 7 | I complained to Northumbrian Water about this and they gave me a very dusty answer . |
| 8 | and to St Giles and they heard about me and they offered me a month 's holiday and they were complete strangers and they gave me a month 's holiday |
| 9 | and I visited their friends and went to their church with them and they gave me a wonderful time , did everything for me |
| 10 | She said I ca n't promise you , so I thought well I 'm sat six months now , so I phoned this ship thing yesterday on the telly called Just Start , no Start Again whatever it 's called and they gave me , they phoned me yesterday and they gave me a number of Cine Hill , Northampton which is the job advisory centre , adults education and then they phoned me yesterday and they told me who to get in touch with so I 've got an appointment Thursday at erm Northampton with the Social Services Department and they apparently map out all the places where you could go , say , say for instance that St Crispin 's is the mental home I can go there and be with the patients and then I can go to the Marina 's and be taught how to lift and how to bed bath and how to manipulate |
| 11 | place on Sunday and they gave me a meal . |
| 12 | They enabled the sisters to honour their own privacy needs and they gave us a clear sense of personal identity . |
| 13 | ‘ Finally , we went to the office and they gave us a cheque , which bounced . ’ |
| 14 | And they gave us a sheet . |