Example sentences of "[conj] give them [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | If you struggled with rollers and gave them up as a bad job about ten years ago , you 'll be surprised at the simplicity of the latest setting appliances . |
2 | You know , there was a lot of people had them and gave them out to neighbours or not total strangers , but people that were n't really related to them . |
3 | She wrapped up the clogs and gave them back to me with the instruction that I was only to wear the shoes when I came to call . |
4 | She took them off and gave them back to him . |
5 | Barbie said she 'd rather have a cigarette anyway and gave them back to us , but we could n't break any of them off , so we kept passing this lump backwards and forwards , sucking it and grinding little chunks off it , till we got fed up with it and chucked it on the floor . |
6 | The city , he continues , was a ‘ sign of capital ’ ; it ‘ took up and eviscerated the varieties of social practice and gave them back with ventriloqual precision ’ . |