Example sentences of "parents give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boys do not have the same pressures as we do , they are not taught that image is so important ; the media , society , and especially parents give them this impression . |
| 2 | Consequences , Parents give her what she wants . |
| 3 | On his first night back , his parents give him a party , to which they invite their circle of middle-class , middle-aged friends . |
| 4 | He persuaded her parents to give her in marriage to a friend of his and by constant threats and ill-treatment she was forced to consent . |
| 5 | Thus far I have , in the main , been looking at the problem in the context of a conflict between parents and the minor , either the minor consenting and the parents refusing consent or the minor refusing consent and the parents giving it . |
| 6 | But the fact that you were a close and dear friend to my parents gives us a close bond , nevertheless . |
| 7 | ‘ My parents gave me it on my twenty first . ’ |
| 8 | I met Franklin in 1934 when my parents gave me a trip to England ; we became engaged in 1936 and were married in 1939 . |
| 9 | I do n't think her parents gave her much very much freedom . |
| 10 | His Jamaican parents gave him absolutely no encouragement in sport and little more in education yet his school teachers exerted often crude pressures on him to participate in the school athletics and football teams . |
| 11 | As no temporary accommodation could be found for him in Štanjel my parents gave him a room in our house ; his family joined him there when we left . |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't buy it , my parents gave it to me , when they changed it . ’ |
| 13 | Last year his parents gave it to me to restore . |
| 14 | So in the end we got a mortgage from a building society , and my parents gave us the money to do it up . |