Example sentences of "they give " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 's in a terrible state and she wo n't let them give her sedatives because of the baby . ’ |
| 2 | While I have great sympathy for the doctors of twenty years or more ago who did not realise the addictive effect of such tablets when they began to prescribe them , I do not feel equal sympathy for those doctors ( fortunately their number is growing less ) who still hand out similar prescriptions to their patients and then fail to monitor their progress or to help them give up the medication as soon as possible . |
| 3 | I I always make them give me three p |
| 4 | Company managers have been asked to provide support for smoking employees who may find the new policy difficult to follow , and if required , staff will be offered counselling to help them give up . |
| 5 | He rarely went for a tightframed shot , but instead honed in on whatever it was the subject had and made them give him more . |
| 6 | She had seen people die , she had seen them give birth , she had chopped them into little pieces : more significantly , with Charles she had achieved orgasm , which she had never managed with Edgar . |
| 7 | Do n't let them give you that line . |
| 8 | You may well find it easier to obtain people again , particularly with a new climate on employed volunteering , there 's no doubt about that , that there is a new attitude where companies are willing to encourage employees to spend their time and to help o to help them give minimum resources , to organise them . |
| 9 | Did they give you any at the shelter ? ’ |
| 10 | Do they give them a second thought ? |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't they give such a lovely smell ! ’ said Mrs Hollidaye . |
| 12 | I do n't SEE WHy people grope us together as holigans 'cos we ai n't alright you get troble makers in every facktion But They do nt publish it if a niggeR does a old Biddy do they give us a faiR chance will someone as for stop being a SKIN I do nt think I will . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Did n't they give chase ? ’ |
| 14 | There is no bibliography , but neither in the text nor the source references do they give any credit to the pioneers in this field such as Les Schindel and L. Meyler . |
| 15 | Already there have been many studies of the effect of unemployment on health ; do they give useful results ? |
| 16 | But how much sympathy will they give to a platform whose rules are ‘ Never trust a scientific report ’ and ‘ Never trust a scientist ’ ? |
| 17 | Only then will they win the middle ground , and only then will they give their policies a chance to persist when they have moved out of office . |
| 18 | Damn , damn , damn that bloody newspaper , why could n't they give people five minutes to discuss something important without destroying everything with their hysteria and filthy ridicule ? |
| 19 | But why do they give you a treble boost ? |
| 20 | I can do the job , so why wo n't they give it to me ? ’ |
| 21 | Do they give it to everyone ? |
| 22 | They thought it over and only after their first choice , Eli Wallach , announced he would be doing a Broadway play instead of making the film , did they give the part to Sinatra . |
| 23 | HOW COULD THEY GIVE OUR MIKE 10 YEARS ? |
| 24 | Did they give you a difficult time ? |
| 25 | What social and interpersonal practices do they give rise to ? |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't they give a man in your position better coffee than this , Captain Rudakov ? ’ |
| 27 | The gospels do not furnish us with the materials for a modern-style biography , nor do they give us a window into Jesus ' mind by which we could peer into his inmost soul . |
| 28 | Can the classical doctrines of the Trinity and the incarnation continue to serve as focusing and shaping theology for today , or must they give way to some quite different approach ? |
| 29 | Should they give up exercise , or continue through their pregnancy ? |
| 30 | And could they give us any suggestions — any positive help . |