Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb base] give them " in BNC.

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1 And that I refuse to give them . ’
2 ‘ I wanted to give them to his wife but she is n't here so I 've given them to him instead , ’ she said .
3 Old people are no fools , and can easily be hurt ; so however many things you have on your mind to be done when you get home , never leave them feeling that you have given them time that you have grudgingly spared .
4 Politicians do n't have time to read screeds , so you have to give them short , pithy things to look at , We were doing all this anyway , of course , but the chaps at Barton , including Andy , are working on it much more effectively since we were able to say definitely that the DTI civil servants were agin them .
5 But once they 're there , once you 've given them headroom , they seem pretty determined to stick around .
6 It 's once you start giving them out , that 's what causes the problem .
7 However , to my question : will your family be safe from the Church once you have given them Inky 's — Aspirant 's body ? ’
8 We 're so sure about the reliability of our washing machines that we 've given them a full 5-year parts guarantee .
9 That 's an assurance that we 've given them .
10 Er the goods that what , not goods that we want to give them like junk food and ludicrous fashions , to find out what it is that they want this of equipment and no , and do n't forget the know-how , I mean we are , we have a hell of a Know-how in this country which is not being used .
11 So many returners admit to stage fright at the beginning of a re-entry programme , only to find that the expectations of managers and colleagues are much more realistic than they have given them credit for .
12 I can isolate my Koi and they are easy to catch if I need to give them short term baths .
13 A programme does not have to be conventionally ‘ nine to five , structured but participants are more likely to accommodate themselves to unusual arrangements if you 've given them time for themselves .
14 If you refuse to give them up , your daughter will be killed . ’
15 Waitress : ‘ He said if you start giving them apples without custard , where will it ever end ? ’
16 It 's too easy , I think , to assume that women are n't aggressive and are sensitive and men are more aggressive and less sensitive because that 's the way society has wanted them to be in the past and children have grown up and lived up to those stereotypes , so I do n't think we can actually say yet that women can offer anything distinctive until we 've given them the chance to be themselves really .
17 so we 've got , if we do give them work to do it 's got to be stuff which they do n't feel inadequate to do .
18 ‘ We need two points and if we refuse to give them time on the ball then I do n't see why not .
19 And he said yes but it 's , it 's the accommodation we 've got , maybe it 's a Company move and they 've given them an apartment or something , seven months old , you know , that big , so by the time
20 ‘ You do n't have to worry about those sheep , Seb , they 're as snug as bugs in a rug out there , but I 've given them some more hay , just in case .
21 does anybody remember particularly what they were given , or make a great deal about it , of a meal of it , unless you 've given them something absolutely outstanding like a fur coat , I remember the fur coat I was given in
22 The standard answer , given with that gleam of superiority that the young delight in , was , ‘ No , Dr Clarke , they are not suitable because you have given them a blood transfusion . ’
23 That is because we 've given them good service over the past three years .
24 Is it because we 've given them a different have we already used a pot up ?
25 They argue that women and men are able to rate themselves highly on cross-gender items because they continue to give them meanings consistent with their own gender roles .
26 But there 's two ways of getting them off if they do latch on to you , one is to burn them off with a cigarette or a match and the other way is to use rock salt , and if you put rock salt on them they then just come off so that 's a little bit erm more humane for the leeches but it depends what you feel about them really as to whether you want to give them another chance .
27 You know before you start giving them all the spiel
28 No I do n't know whether we do give them , even the precise dates .
29 I thought that see as we 've given them five hundred before , perhaps you 'd consider giving them , perhaps two hundred and fifty this time .
30 When they arrive give them the name of an animal and ask them to make the noise the animal makes to find similar animals .
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