Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have given them " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I do now sometimes wish that I had given them more time when I did have 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 | But once they 're there , once you 've given them headroom , they seem pretty determined to stick around . |
| 5 | However , to my question : will your family be safe from the Church once you have given them Inky 's — Aspirant 's body ? ’ |
| 6 | We 're so sure about the reliability of our washing machines that we 've given them a full 5-year parts guarantee . |
| 7 | That 's an assurance that we 've given them . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But he was so scared of them getting his own father that he had given them no names at all , not even his own . |
| 10 | Several women friends of Waddell said that he had given them within days of the murder large sums of money ; and a barman to whom Waddell had given £1000 for safe keeping said Waddell had told him he had won a packet on the horses . |
| 11 | Does the Secretary of State not accept that our valley councils have lost more in rate support grant over the past 10 years than he has given them in new money in the latest package ? |
| 12 | Years ago Constance 's mother had kept chickens at the bottom of the garden , and when they went off the lay one of her sons-in-law had strangled them and she had given them away to the neighbours , being unable to eat a bird she had known personally . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 15 | But next to the Dance Hall if we 'd given them the licence to ha turn the cinema into a Dance Hall , there was this little old boy who lived just the other side of the road , in an old cottage , and he was over eighty . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | God placed the enforcing of Satan 's defeat in the hands of His servants and He has given them the authority . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | Trying to escape by going to the only other bar in Woodstock , where I was chased around a table by The Psychedelic Furs because I had given them a bad review in a music paper . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | That is because we 've given them good service over the past three years . |
| 23 | Is it because we 've given them a different have we already used a pot up ? |
| 24 | He demanded a refund from the first agents but they refused , arguing that because he had given them his credit card number he had entered into a contract . |
| 25 | And I 'd like to bet there 's quite a few of the blokes down there ’ — she jerked her head to the side — ‘ look upon this war as a godsend because it 's given them a legitimate excuse to leave their shanties . |
| 26 | ‘ Men have reason to be well satisfied with what God hath thought fit for them , since he has given them … whatsoever is necessary for the conveniences of life , and information of virtue . ’ |
| 27 | Maureen said : ‘ I did n't think about them again until that psychic woman asked for them , but it was only after I had given them to her I realized they were n't his at all . |
| 28 | Think about Felix and his family , who hated me after I had given them love . |
| 29 | Sometimes , after I 'd given them back their money , the customer would open the palm of their hand and I would discover that one of the coins I had passed over had suddenly disappeared so I ended up having to give them even more bees and honey . |
| 30 | Finally , after he had given them a pledge supported by the oaths of Danish leaders , they completely rejected Edmund 's brothers and sons and denied that they were kings . |