Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [pron] give them " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do have a money adviser erm specifically who works with erm tenants who are in rent arrears and who gives them advice on handling their financial problems . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | ‘ If you 've got a pen I 'll read the directions as they gave them to the family . ’ |
| 4 | Yeah they do take part cos they 're dying to say things and we give them jobs to do . |
| 5 | seventeen thousand pounds if he gave them a free cup of coffee . |
| 6 | In China they 've been eating mouldering cabbage for aeons and it gives them cancer of the oesophagus . |
| 7 | Hatton was so impressed by his bad boys that he gave them colourful 1930s ‘ punk rock ’ pseudonyms — Alf Artful , Billy Dustup and Reggie Smashem — which are no more suggestive of obedience and docility than other pre-war descriptions of brawls , affrays , legless drunks , or street robbers armed with sand-bags and cut-throat razors . |
| 8 | Both sexes like the idea that women pretend , men because it confirms their suspicion that their partners are basically frigid and devious manipulators , women because it gives them a delicious sense of power to think that the delirium which men fondly ascribe to their virile prowess is no more than a hollow civility , like laughing at Grandpa 's jokes . |
| 9 | They particularly enjoy dealing with Orcs as it gives them a chance to outwit their larger and more brutal cousins . |
| 10 | Opposition Sajudis members objected , without effect , to the timing of the election on the grounds that it gave them inadequate time for preparation . |