Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] gave them " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spectacular charge of the Light Blue Brigade from stakeboat to finish line con founded the bookies and the Tideway pundits who gave them no chance against Barcelona gold medallist Matthew Pinsent and his crew . |
| 2 | Venality was rife ; the precedent of even groups as illustrious as the Beatles and the Stones signing to contracts which gave them only a penny a record had become legendary : at the end of the Sixties , Allen Klein had achieved notoriety for his dexterous accounting abilities , working for both groups in the role of both ‘ finder ’ extracting hidden royalties from the record company for the group — and ‘ taker ’ — extracting them from the group for himself . |
| 3 | Prior to that date , however , some of the greater landowners , as lords of regality , maintained private courts which gave them opportunities to attract lawyer-freeholders to their service and hence to their political interest . |
| 4 | Or , perhaps , it was in some way due to the directions we gave them ? |
| 5 | We feel very strongly about freedom of expression , so when [ in 1989 ] the NEA withdrew its grant to Artist 's Space , within forty-eight hours we gave them $10,000 to replace it . |
| 6 | Beside giving them access to a number of secret SimFic files — files which gave them the location of several special projects Berdichev had instigated — they had also contained several items of particular interest . |
| 7 | The Victorian entrepreneurs did not miss the extraordinary opportunities offered by the business of travel and Cook and his descendants had many rivals who gave them keen competition . |
| 8 | Traditionalist to the core , the Legion fully encouraged the romanticism of escape from ‘ real life ’ and forgetting , because in practical terms it gave them that much more control over their members . |
| 9 | Parliament did not often pass laws with any wide-ranging implications , and the most wide-ranging recent laws , the religious legislation of the Reformation , were never applied at all precisely in America , but no legal framework could have been imagined for the colonies which gave them a legitimate position under English law without putting them under the legislative supremacy of Parliament . |
| 10 | Perhaps it would have been too easy : they 'd made love the first night they met , both involved with women who gave them pain . |
| 11 | About half the tables in the hotel dining-room were occupied but Wycliffe , with Kersey and Lucy Lane , was placed in one of the window embrasures which gave them all the privacy they could have wished . |