Example sentences of "[conj] they give [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Every so often , he goes to a local hospital where they give him an injection of something , which cheers him up noticeably .
2 Whenever we need to go to and from the Institute , or even if we want to make an expedition into town , we go to the Car Office , at the hotel , where they give us deluxe transport by car , and pick us up again when we want to return .
3 Where they gave me meat and drink . ’
4 Because it was the women themselves who were organizing it because they felt part of it they did n't see it as some sort of other people that were more politically motivated that than them giving them something to keep them out on strike , which by its very nature could could have been something that the people would have accepted for a while and then not accepted .
5 Although they give me a good start for next issue .
6 He astounded his American masters by demanding that they give him a more worthwhile job or he would be on his way home .
7 The mutual understanding is that they give him their votes , and he gives them his services , always seeking to prove that he is at the very least as obliging and as diligent as the other " TDs and would-be TDs in his constituency .
8 The money should be transferred to the N U M and if it is not longer needed by those families , we would suggest that they give it back to help the formation of the independent labour movement in Russia .
9 The money should be transferred to the N U M , and if it is not longer needed by those families , we would suggest that they give it back to help the formation of the independent labour movement in Russia .
10 But while the large number of coins means that they give us a large quantity of information , their small size and the consequent brevity of their inscriptions greatly restricts the level of interpretation we can make from them compared with , say , a lengthy edict of a Roman emperor fully inscribed on stone .
11 But you can see that er for someone who has no , a wife who has no income and her husband 's paying twenty five percent or forty percent then by moving a , say er twenty thousand at erm well er whatever percentage to fill up these allowances er if you 're getting ten thousand or twenty thousand put , put it into the wife 's name that they give us the interest is then hers , if she has no other income it neatly can be swallowed up by the allowance .
12 A council they oppose so much that they give us one of the lowest grants per head in the country , poll tax cap us , take us to court over redundancy payments , criticise us over the Meadow Well management and so on .
13 If so , the arbitrator may make a separate recommendation to The Post Office that they give you an ‘ ex gratia ’ payment .
14 Safety validation of contractors was another item th that they give you a briefing of the meeting
15 It 's a a a re a really nice restaurant but you can pick all your food raw and they just , there 's a chef cooking , and you just get one of these plates , you can have as many helpings as you want , they serve you a cold starter and a hot starter but there 's a buffet that 's about half the size of our club and one side of it it 's all fish on a wet fish slab , and steak , and veal , and chicken and so there 's every sort of meat you can think of , and you can pick a wooden platter full of it , so you go and give it the chef with this number that they give you and then they come serve you with whatever you want .
16 A piece of paper that they give you which tells us what .
17 You 've only got to solve the silly simple thing that they give you which is
18 In fact deliberately if you ca n't go there , you 're going to let people down , so that they give you stick .
19 I just remember the all-pervading feeling of reassurance that they gave me throughout .
20 and er I managed to get er do forty odd years and erm now I 'm quite happy on the pension that they gave me .
21 I think that day that they gave me a lift home .
22 She says that they gave them every assistance possible .
23 And like my parents sort of went , the thought that they gave them money that we had for it , yeah
24 But anyway we , they must have been so impressed by the , the order that they got , that they gave us the agency for Galashiels and Selkirk for the Austin .
25 Erm mm , I do n't know whether there 's any way round it but that 's sort of the set up that they gave us when we started and I guess I 'll have to sort of conform to that , but it
26 It 's not B T , it used to be B T , erm until about 1984 , when we decided that the maintenance that they gave us was n't good enough , and got Plessey in .
27 The meaning that they gave it should send cold shivers down the spine of any parent : fully a half thought that it was an instruction to cross the road , and half of these thought that it was showing you how to do it — by running !
28 So were , were management quite flexible in that , in that they , you described they allowed , stewards monitored the , the incentive scheme , er they had two weekly meetings , were management quite flexible in that they gave you time off or er whatever ?
29 Back on the recovery ship , they opened the hatch and there was Ham with his arms crossed , looking gloriously bored by the whole episode , so they gave him an apple !
30 ( He should have won a Nobel Prize for general relativity , but the idea that space and time were curved was still regarded as too speculative and controversial , so they gave him a prize for the photoelectric effect instead — ; not that it was not worth the prize on its own account . )
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