Example sentences of "and they give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Er and I remember , I remember Street West , when the right hand side of Street west going from Road , every house was empty before the First World War and they gave somebody er somebody who lives in the end one and they were rent free if they keep all the rest clean , and always you see house to let where wherever it was in every street there was houses to let , and the price of the house in Street must be about eight shillings a week in those days , and then if you went up to I mean you 'd get in the twelve and sixpenny bracket and down in , those houses down in the that they were ten and six or something like that er |
| 32 | And they gave him the rowdiest send-off of the campaign . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | ‘ 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 . |
| 35 | Erm he wrote to Photo Gallery and asked them for er an exhibition date and they gave him one in nineteen ninety . |
| 36 | They could have told you what they meant by them and they gave them a currency in terms of their own conduct . |
| 37 | a sociality room whatever , whatever they call it and er , and they gave them a good do really |
| 38 | So when I got back to Boston I thought , ‘ God , there must be a way to do this live , ’ so I called up Lexicon and said , ‘ I 'm this guitar player … ’ and they gave me one ! |
| 39 | I gave them our greetings from Q.P. and they gave me theirs to return to you . |
| 40 | But they were very kind and they gave me a part in this play , it was called Tilly of Bloomsbury . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | I 'd been to see my great-aunt 's solicitors in Glasgow and they gave me the keys . |
| 43 | Then I was in the hospital for a fortnight and they gave me Librium and I was really ill at that time . |
| 44 | Not only was Pumblechook 's elbow in my eye , but I was n't allowed to speak , and they gave me the worst pieces of meat . |
| 45 | And they says , Well a person who lived in your flat before you had a telly , you know and they gave me some excuse , you know that the the the person who lived in here before me had ripped them off and they says , How do we know that you 're not that person , you know things like that . |
| 46 | ‘ And they gave me the job . ’ |
| 47 | I complained to Northumbrian Water about this and they gave me a very dusty answer . |
| 48 | 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 |
| 49 | and I visited their friends and went to their church with them and they gave me a wonderful time , did everything for me |
| 50 | 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 |
| 51 | 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 |
| 52 | place on Sunday and they gave me a meal . |
| 53 | And Ford 's put up a lot of the money and so they wanted their cut from the publicity , and they gave me another award , and their manager in Brighton came to present it . |
| 54 | The way I look at it is this : I asked for help , and they gave it . |
| 55 | and they gave it . |
| 56 | We were all looking for some direction in our lives and they gave us that direction . |
| 57 | They enabled the sisters to honour their own privacy needs and they gave us a clear sense of personal identity . |
| 58 | ‘ Finally , we went to the office and they gave us a cheque , which bounced . ’ |
| 59 | ‘ They 're cheaper to run and they gave us more flexibility on positioning , ’ Wren adds . |
| 60 | For instance , they gave us just two power lines per side on a huge concert stage , and just one spotlight , and that was all the lights they gave us , and they gave us half the PA . |