Example sentences of "[prep] them give " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nature of the Premier League club chairmen , most of whom are highly successful businsessmen , not without confidence in their own judgement , makes it almost impossible for them to give others carte blanche . |
| 2 | In October 1962 the choir felt it was difficult for them to give a strong lead to the congregational singing because of where the choir was placed and it was recommended that the Trustees should take expert advice on the rearranging of the pulpit area of the church . |
| 3 | They may also be able to build in some safeguards which would make it possible for them to give permission . |
| 4 | Bankers retaliate by pointing out that accountants ' advice is invariably based on historic record rather than future possibility , and that it is impossible for them to give impartial advice if they have been auditing their clients ' books over the past years . |
| 5 | But when consumers have a choice which includes widely different types of credit arrangements , it may often be more sensible for them to give more weight to the total cost of credit or the amount of each instalment . |
| 6 | For them to give you the service you want they need to know about your ideas and any suggestions and comments you may have to ensure the best possible service . |
| 7 | But there I am , waiting for them to give me the okay . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ All it tells us is he must 've had a foreign accent for them to give him a name like that . |
| 9 | The Americans found that the deepening Cold War made it impossible for them to give equal priority to all their objectives . |
| 10 | for them to give you this kind of service ! |
| 11 | And there these twelve men and two boys , who , with nothing much but bare hands , the sailor man 's gift for improvisation , and their indomitable guts , had fought sea and fire for their ship and won , were cared for and each of them given his heart 's desire . |
| 12 | The test which best discriminated between the effects of left and right sided electro-convulsive therapy ( ECT ) after two treatments to each side was naming of objects after hearing a verbal description of them given by the examiner seven minutes after shock administration . |
| 13 | I 've got about ten of them to give people if they ask we what are you doing . |
| 14 | But there is little likelihood of them giving home advantage to Garvey who have gone 32 games without defeat in the competition and need to win it for a record sixth time on the trot to reach Europe next year . |
| 15 | These deeply cut ravines might not seem too demanding , but some of them give unusual approaches to the high moorland plateaux , passing through impressive rock scenery which can offer the simple joys of scrambling , often above deep pools linked by cascades and waterfalls . |
| 16 | And what is more , I think most of them give in . |
| 17 | All of them give you fair warning of their character by deliberately making themselves conspicuous and waving their bushy tails . |
| 18 | Some of them some of them give a lot of details , I mean this gives a lot of detail there . |
| 19 | British law comprises thousands of separate statutes and decided cases : none of them give unqualified support to freedom of expression . |
| 20 | Some of them give a great deal of importance to using weak forms , but do not stress the importance of also knowing when to use the strong forms , something which I feel is very important . |
| 21 | Cos you just sit there and , do you think you can lend me some money , please , I promise I 'll pay you back , and they 'll all give you about ten P , some of them give you fifty , some of them give you twenty got about , I was thinking you could just go in there and save up for all your Christmas shopping could n't you ? |
| 22 | Cos you just sit there and , do you think you can lend me some money , please , I promise I 'll pay you back , and they 'll all give you about ten P , some of them give you fifty , some of them give you twenty got about , I was thinking you could just go in there and save up for all your Christmas shopping could n't you ? |
| 23 | Both of them gave out pert repartee in the traditional Mae West manner . |
| 24 | Assault Boats are , as their description implies , not for pleasurable pursuits , although the construction of 8,442 of them gave the craftsmen of Wolverton , skilled in the art of carriage building , an opportunity to employ their talents . |
| 25 | One of them gave me a basket she had made and when I lifted the lid there was a card with her name in Greek and English , and the words ‘ For You ’ … . |
| 26 | None of them gave him more than four . |
| 27 | Coloureds and Indians have tended to support the National Party — one estimate is that 60% of them gave it their backing in mid-1992 — because they saw it as a bulwark against black domination . |
| 28 | Although each of them gave greatly inflated estimates of their membership , reliable intelligence reports suggest that they were shoestring operations with minimal popular impact . |
| 29 | It also pointed out that all these proposals had a major weakness in that none of them gave consideration to the university sector , which because of its involvement in the provision and validation of teacher-training courses and because of the different , smaller scale of Welsh provision , made its contribution more critical . |
| 30 | She put her hands against their huge hard heads , and the warm power of them gave her confidence a strange boost . |