Example sentences of "[noun] and they give [pron] " in BNC.

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1 the only reason that police get away with drink driving is cos half the buggers are Masons and they give them the old funny hand shake and its oh on your way sir
2 We were all looking for some direction in our lives and they gave us that direction .
3 They enabled the sisters to honour their own privacy needs and they gave us a clear sense of personal identity .
4 Er and I remember , I remember Street West , when the right hand side of Street west going from Road , every house was empty before the First World War and they gave somebody er somebody who lives in the end one and they were rent free if they keep all the rest clean , and always you see house to let where wherever it was in every street there was houses to let , and the price of the house in Street must be about eight shillings a week in those days , and then if you went up to I mean you 'd get in the twelve and sixpenny bracket and down in , those houses down in the that they were ten and six or something like that er
5 I , I , mean we had erm , we went out for the day and they give us it was sandwiches
6 Yeah under question things and they give you the answers in blue .
7 and to St Giles and they heard about me and they offered me a month 's holiday and they were complete strangers and they gave me a month 's holiday
8 place on Sunday and they gave me a meal .
9 I gave them our greetings from Q.P. and they gave me theirs to return to you .
10 Then you have a bath and they give you a towel and soap .
11 I 'd been to see my great-aunt 's solicitors in Glasgow and they gave me the keys .
12 Then I was in the hospital for a fortnight and they gave me Librium and I was really ill at that time .
13 Erm he wrote to Photo Gallery and asked them for er an exhibition date and they gave him one in nineteen ninety .
14 Oh as they come out to Asda they said they found her bag and they give her our Pam 's phone number and rung up and thanked our she said there 's full of stuff money and all in there and thanked her for what she 'd done and our Pam said fair enough I would you know
15 The majority of the people in this town is lovely people , the council and the police are first class and they give us a fair crack of the whip all the way .
16 The majority of the people in this town is lovely people , the council and the police are first class and they give us a fair crack of the whip all the way .
17 ‘ Finally , we went to the office and they gave us a cheque , which bounced . ’
18 Er we 've got a little few earmarked funds left over like for instance , Theakston 's Brewery gave us the barrels and they gave us two and a half thousand pounds .
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