Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] give them " in BNC.
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1 | For all its strengths , the game has a few flaws — you ca n't drop objects or give them to another character . |
2 | So much can be conveyed by putting your arms around someone 's shoulders or giving them a kiss . |
3 | They recorded the usual four songs and gave them both English and Ukrainian names . |
4 | The purpose of the Enterprise is to involve Third World countries in mining nodules and give them a share in the profits . |
5 | Clare takes conventional subjects and gives them a twist , physically and artistically . |
6 | For example , they have argued against almost every EC directive which would have improved women 's poor position in the work force , increased their opportunities and given them increased freedom to work . |
7 | The Court of Appeal held that the ordinary rules of construction require the court to look at the section 's words and to give them their plain and natural meaning . |
8 | He terrified the inhabitants of Staufen Swabia , confiscated fiefs which had been conferred on ecclesiastics and gave them to his Saxon and English supporters . |
9 | Tom picked up Willie 's three books and gave them to him to carry . |
10 | If they had difficulties then I broke each stage down into small steps and gave them repeated practice . |
11 | She wrapped up the clogs and gave them back to me with the instruction that I was only to wear the shoes when I came to call . |
12 | I found the main control lines and gave them to Esmerelda , showing her how to hold them , and where . |
13 | If you struggled with rollers and gave them up as a bad job about ten years ago , you 'll be surprised at the simplicity of the latest setting appliances . |
14 | Then , since the fisherman did not come home , every morning she took his supper to the cliff-side and fed it to the wild snakes ; every noon she took the hempen nets and gave them to the sea-birds to build their nests . |
15 | Attempts to classify mental disorders and give them names ran into many difficulties . |
16 | The hon. Member for Northampton , North ( Mr. Marlow ) has some interesting ways of looking at the problem , but he did not look at the fact that there are proven ways of taking young people who have committed offences and giving them a chance to confront their criminality . |
17 | It was the young Scots ' first win in four outings and gave them an outside chance of qualifying for the latter stages of the championship . |
18 | Between these a great deal happened to influence policies and to give them a character they often retain . |
19 | One is to give all the children obstacles such as sacks , boxes , old tyres , ladders and ropes and give them the opportunity to make up their own course . |
20 | A.C.G. Hastings was reprimanded by High Commissioner Girouard for using military means to effect the subjugation of the cannibal Tula tribe ; to redeem himself he volunteered to subdue the equally unruly Awok without firing a shot , and did so — by reminding them of the fate of the Tulas and giving them two hours to surrender their weapons . |
21 | Pieces of pine from apple cases became cricket bats , tennis rackets or hockey sticks and gave them endless hours of pleasure . |
22 | Disbud hybrid tea roses for the best blooms and give them a foliar feed if it is necessary . |
23 | That was when they all realized acting like this was only playing into the hands of the authorities and giving them a real basis for enforcing their petty laws . |
24 | The mustard seed produces a shrub about eight to ten feet tall , with branches strong enough to support birds and give them shelter . |
25 | Often bosses ignore workers or give them the silent treatment — a negative , no-win situation for all concerned . |
26 | Fulcrum Technologies Inc , Ottawa , Canada reckons that it has the industry 's first suite of SQL-based tools that enable corporate information professionals to access text information and make it available throughout an organisation for use as a strategic resource : Fulcrum says SearchTools offer the first means by which corporate developers , working within an open client-server environment , can build text-retrieval applications for accessing large text applications and give them a way to integrate text-intensive data into existing corporate information management , image or database systems ; the tools feature an applications programming interface based on the SQL Access Group 's Call Level Interface ; the tools will initially be available for Microsoft Corp Visual Basic and Windows developers , as well as for C developers working in other environments , such as OS/2 and Unix ; initial Unix support will be under AIX/6000 , HP-UX and Solaris ; the SearchTools development kit starts at $7,500 per copy and the indexing and retrieval component , SearchServer , will be from $1,000 per user . |
27 | That 's why , when people do n't , we call them heroes and give them medals . |
28 | On the newsreels at the cinema we saw pictures of de Gaulle riding in triumph through the streets , swastikas being torn down , ecstatic Parisiennes in their un-bombed city kissing the troops and giving them flowers . |
29 | At the same time , many governments offered social reforms to ease the plight of workers and give them fewer grounds for opposition . |
30 | LIFESPAN records the fact that this assertion has been made by changing any development versions of modules in a package ( including the package module itself ) to approved versions and giving them a non-development issue number , such as 2.3 from 2.3C . |