Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] give them " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Matt put in , ‘ Departing guests pay their accounts at the office , where she gives them a receipt , and Ling takes his list of commodities to her — things to be ordered for the kitchen , you understand . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There were a lot of young drunks staggering about , too — most at that noisy and unattractive stage where they might want to be your pal or pick a fight or just throw up on you , so I gave them a wide berth . |
| 4 | I went around being nice to children for a while , being a sort of modern Pied Piper , but I learnt that they 're a manipulative lot and crazy for money , literally crazy for it , so I gave them the elbow . |
| 5 | I was scared of them but I was n't going to let them get away so I gave them a good run for their money . |
| 6 | ‘ The public are quicker to shift opinion than we give them credit for . |
| 7 | Room maids also suggested improving the honeymoon suite , so we gave them a project to look at suitable fabrics and rival hotel suites . |
| 8 | We 're on the same pitch then , so we give them a game and that would apply in the Premier League . ’ |
| 9 | The trouble about that is , it 's now enforced upon us and that 's official target , we have to set priority of fire certificates because we need the money , bluntly , otherwise we have to find it elsewhere , so we give them a priority that they would n't otherwise have . |
| 10 | They twice tried owning houses but found it too expensive so they gave them away , and Charles refused to accept any of his estranged father 's estate . |
| 11 | The Roman Emperors were much more slippery than anyone gives them credit for . |
| 12 | Some , however , did receive Him and believed in Him ; so he gave them the right to become God 's children . |
| 13 | At Oxford I discovered that most people were only too willing to be friendly if I gave them a chance . |
| 14 | If I gave them an order to couple up a full line of maybe ten coaches , I would n't take it for granted that they 'd done it , I 'd walk up the coach , one walk up one side , down the other side and I would n't If there were a heating valve not open , if they forgot that you see , I would n't do it for them , I would go back and I 'd say , that S K third from the back end , the heating valve is not pulled down , you 've missed it , you 'd better When you 're up that way , just pull it down you see . |
| 15 | The only way people will trust me is if I give them a signed piece of paper with my address on . ’ |
| 16 | If I give them to you , you can do your story first and then pass them on . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , they usually do if I give them time . ’ |
| 18 | If I give them |
| 19 | Hopefully I should have another bang middle of the week so I , if I give them both to you then I |
| 20 | There are lots of ways to walk to Fort William if that 's what you fancy , except now one of them is littered with lots of wooden posts with painted thistles , and hundreds of people trudging about who never thought of walking to Fort William until someone gave them the West Highland Way guide book for their Christmas . |
| 21 | And so it goes on and on and until somebody gives them a kick up the backside they 'll continue like that forever and ever amen and a day ! |
| 22 | Well it 's just that for that , I mean that 's all , it 's all relative for those conditions there are , there is too much labour on the land , you erm , if you could increase agricultural productivity in a way that would displace labour and that 's very difficult to do , well you can , you can do it er most , most capital is labour displacing but not all , not all capital , erm so you could , whereas I see , I see what you are saying is that , why well the you could g you could , you could do it right even though that there are a lot of people on the land er you could still make them wholly productive by giving them more capital that was n't labour that was n't labour displacing , like you give them better seeds for example , like that would increase the productivity of the land , there would n't be so much you know population pressure on the land er because everybody would have enough to eat and we could er actually sell something , right . |
| 23 | Luke would never forgive her if she gave them away with some unwitting comment . |
| 24 | She looked at Sophie 's stricken face and added , ‘ He told her that if she gave them some garbled story he would sack her on the spot . |
| 25 | Though if you give them enough notice they can do almost anything … |
| 26 | A. H. Halsey , David Donnison , John Vaizey , Noel Annan , and Michael Young were among those whom he invited to his home to argue about the strategies and , but only after they had worked , to enjoy his hospitality : ‘ People become much too talkative if you give them something to drink . ’ |
| 27 | If you give them an explanation which later turns out to be untrue , their trust in you is shaken , their sense of security undermined , and they will not easily forgive you . |
| 28 | If you give them time and sufficient explanation and preparation , children can deal surprisingly well with crises in their lives . |
| 29 | Kids may keep their books shipshape if you give them this pair of Noah 's Ark bookends . |
| 30 | It 's easy when you become attached to birds to think of them in human terms , particularly if you give them a human name . |