Example sentences of "they [vb mod] to give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many will be familiar with Graham Gibbs ' Twenty Terrible Reasons for Lecturing or Donald Bligh 's What 's the Use of Lectures ? ( see Suggestions for further reading at the end of this chapter ) and most will have been intellectually persuaded that they ought to give fewer , better lectures and devote their remaining teaching energies to small-group learning — i.e. tutorials and seminars . |
| 2 | They used to give us the creeps . ’ |
| 3 | Do you remember what your mum and dad used to say to you all those years ago because , those old adages that they used to give you as kids , certainly rings true . |
| 4 | We used to get help from the Co-ops because they used to give us lists of new members and we used to be able to canvass those . |
| 5 | I can always remember that yeah , I won a book called And then er when we came out pictures on Saturday afternoon , there always used to be a gentleman there and he 'd had a great big basket and he 'd like he 'd have a bag of sweets and oranges in these er basket and they used to give the children a bag of sweet and orange and they came out and see pictures for a penny . |
| 6 | This or someone else 's sister would be they used to give you this to make your . |
| 7 | And put it on , they used to give me tote odds , sometimes I asked for them , usually they 'll automatically give me tote odds . |
| 8 | They used to give us gum and sweets everything and the , they sometimes , the military police they used to come down town and they 'd be after deserters from Lichfield and |
| 9 | Oh yes when the war started yes , you , you see the people would have been called up into the forces anyway people young enough to fly , who , who had an interest , because er one of the air displays I remember very much a tomboy as she was she they used to give pleasure flights and she had defied this pilot to take her up and make her sick , and he was took her up there looping rolling and everything and er |
| 10 | I 'm not sure , but I think I do n't got my family allowance until I were eighteen , I think , I think they used to give us |
| 11 | They used to give 'em subsidies to help 'em pay the rent , they 've stopped that , so they 've either to gerra job , to help put supplement to pay in the , you know , their housing accommodation , or they 've got to stop school . |
| 12 | It was a lot easier it was a lot easier when they used to give them to you over the counter . |
| 13 | They used to give us loads of tests , this bird |
| 14 | Probably , during the war we did quite well , what with the black Americans because they were stationed at the towers and they used to give us kids chocolates and |