Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] they give [pers pn] " 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 | ‘ If you 've got a pen I 'll read the directions as they gave them to the family . ’ |
| 4 | Scientists did not help matters when they gave it the generic name Oreamnos , meaning ‘ mountain lamb ’ . |
| 5 | By the time they reached a point half-way to the island the water had reached their hips so they gave it up as a bad job and began to enjoy themselves . |
| 6 | Yeah called me in two days so they gave me today and tomorrow off as well , so it 's sort of gone longer than I expected you know ? |
| 7 | They enabled the sisters to honour their own privacy needs and they gave us a clear sense of personal identity . |
| 8 | About two years since they gave me that . |
| 9 | Yeah under question things and they give you the answers in blue . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | FORMER Goon Harry Secombe , who has had a second home in Majorca for the past 15 years , reckoned he had finally been accepted by the locals when they gave him the Spanish name El Gordo . |
| 12 | 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 . |