Example sentences of "[adv] they give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly they gave under the intolerable strain , ripped free from their mountings and crashed to the ground . |
| 2 | A survey asked 1,245 randomly selected college professors how much they gave to charity each year . |
| 3 | And naturally they gave their opinions on the new Mrs Arbuthnot . |
| 4 | It 's what they put down the lavatory to disinfect the pan only they give it another name . ’ |
| 5 | Olympic four-hundred metre hurdler Kriss Akabusi told the youngsters they can achieve as much as he has , if only they give their best . |
| 6 | We could really make this place swing if only they gave us the data to work on , could n't we ? ’ |
| 7 | And there then this was discontinued in they gave this beer to keep for lack of exercise keep them regular . |
| 8 | I think you could learn all of those could n't you it 's just that there 's quite a lot of words to learn so they give you some funny ones like ox because it 's got a funny plural and there 's two or three of them you say oxen you do n't say oxes . |
| 9 | And it it so they give you some m medicine for that . |
| 10 | Well maybe they 've not been so they give them so long and then they cross them off the books do n't they ? |
| 11 | so they give you a credit . |
| 12 | So they gave excuses of shortage of time or involvement in other activities to explain why they did not register for the rural party cell . |
| 13 | So they gave him a job . |
| 14 | So they gave him milk , they gave him books to read , they allowed food parcels from the Embassy . |
| 15 | So they gave him a special job . ’ |
| 16 | So they gave me minute instructions ( enclosed , along with the much-travelled draft , in the foreign-desk-clerk 's handwriting ) about what you should say to them if you can be persuaded to try them again . |
| 17 | and we will give you a er , two addresses , and so they gave me two addresses and and to reach people at I 've done the job quite well . |
| 18 | At ten o'clock they gave us a handsome club sweater , which was so generous we decided to let someone else win the domino handicap . |
| 19 | , the large figures represent thousands of feet , the small ones hundreds of feet , and taken together they gave the safety height for the immediate vicinity |
| 20 | , the large figures represent thousands of feet , the small ones hundreds of feet , and taken together they give the height above sea level of the highest known feature ( including terrain and obstacles ) in the quadrangle bounded by half degree lines of latitude and longitude |
| 21 | It is likely that the important point is simply that busy junctions take longer to drive through , thus they gave rise to lower average speeds . |
| 22 | But he just they give them out cards from |
| 23 | Generally they give a good wash-fastness and provide a much wider and brighter spectrum of colours . |
| 24 | The coppers used to come around at first every time somebody stole a dame 's purse but finally they gave it up . |
| 25 | With fertilisers the same crops can be grown year after year on the same fields and still they give high yields . |
| 26 | Usually they give you a , a thing to return it , you know , a thing that you do n't want it , girls let you take the orders down the ware house , oh , put the return it too cos the , cos there 's nothing in there . |
| 27 | and like they give you a secret number of what comes next |
| 28 | Four years later they gave the 368 children left in the study standard reading and spelling tests . |
| 29 | ‘ Seven years later they gave him a parish of his own . |
| 30 | Later they gave it up entirely and went to live in their home in Ascot . |