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 | Although they give me a good start for next issue . |
| 5 | He astounded his American masters by demanding that they give him a more worthwhile job or he would be on his way home . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If so , the arbitrator may make a separate recommendation to The Post Office that they give you an ‘ ex gratia ’ payment . |
| 13 | Safety validation of contractors was another item th that they give you a briefing of the meeting |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A piece of paper that they give you which tells us what . |
| 16 | You 've only got to solve the silly simple thing that they give you which is |
| 17 | In fact deliberately if you ca n't go there , you 're going to let people down , so that they give you stick . |
| 18 | I just remember the all-pervading feeling of reassurance that they gave me throughout . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I think that day that they gave me a lift home . |
| 21 | She says that they gave them every assistance possible . |
| 22 | And like my parents sort of went , the thought that they gave them money that we had for it , yeah |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ! |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | 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 ! |
| 29 | ( 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 . ) |
| 30 | Some of the things he said made no sense so they gave him a crack across the head and took him away . |