Example sentences of "give them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both writers and readers are affected by generally accepted ideas , without necessarily having given them independent thought . |
| 2 | It is common for students to return to a part that has given them many ideas , and to rework a passage fruitfully . |
| 3 | Mr Whitty told delegates the NEC had given them ‘ adequate time to look at the reviews ’ . |
| 4 | as if 24-17 and derisive chants of ‘ Easy , easy ’ were not bad enough , this humiliation was against a side who have made a wretched start to the season — a week earlier Pontypool had given them a 35-6 going-over — and were short of at least half-a-dozen first-choice players . |
| 5 | To that extent they ought to have wide circulation , except that they depend on the kind of painstaking preparation that Knussen had given them — the music sounded taught and nurtured rather than merely rehearsed . |
| 6 | He demanded a refund from the first agents but they refused , arguing that because he had given them his credit card number he had entered into a contract . |
| 7 | They share a parent , who seems to have given them both the same handsome shiny leaves . |
| 8 | There is a chief superintendent in RUC Headquarters whose sole responsibility is community relations , and no complaints were made about the level of managerial support given them by Easton 's senior officers , something unusual for ordinary policemen and women in the RUC , and particularly so compared to community policing sections in other forces ( Grimshaw and Jefferson 1987 ) . |
| 9 | More than 50 per cent of these enfants trovés perish in spite of the care that is given them . |
| 10 | They have many more management techniques , which we did n't have — which we 've given them — and of course they 've got new ideas coming along as well. , Pearce 's own progression within Esso was a series of the grasped opportunities he talks about enthusiastically . |
| 11 | In theory , during this period their potential to adapt technology to source inputs locally ( as had occurred in Biafra during the civil war ) , rather than to import them might have given them a competitive edge over the large manufacturing companies managed and partly owned from overseas . |
| 12 | I have dusted down others and given them sacrilegious new twists , incorporating nuts into rolypoly , for example , and using kumquats instead of lemons for old-fashioned Sussex Pond Pudding . |
| 13 | Cowboys may wear them out of necessity and convicts in the USA may have been given them as part of their uniform , but one thing 's for sure , whatever the reason , most people simply would n't live without them . |
| 14 | ‘ We have now allocated five new frequencies to BR and given them access to two others . ’ |
| 15 | A life of saving had , by 1985 , given them a small nest-egg of £15,000 on which the interest would help supplement their pensions . |
| 16 | It suggests at once beauty and brutality for some are born with black eyes and some are given them . |
| 17 | Having given them the song , it was a hit and that 's when Tony DeFries picked up the management . |
| 18 | And banks say that John Major 's Treasury and local-government ministers have given them a more sympathetic hearing than Margaret Thatcher 's . |
| 19 | ‘ Men have reason to be well satisfied with what God hath thought fit for them , since he has given them … whatsoever is necessary for the conveniences of life , and information of virtue . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ England 's batting , fielding and — apart from Emburey and Edmonds — their bowling proclaimed the lack of practice and resolve on a slow pitch which , had they been in the right frame of mind , would have given them an even chance of levelling the series , ’ asserted Wisden . |
| 21 | Uncle Walter had given them to him , Philip . |
| 22 | The siege has given them publicity for their ideas , of course , but what they really want , to save Liam 's life , is something quite different . |
| 23 | God speaks to Moses again and to Aaron : ‘ Because you did not believe in me , to sanctify me in the eyes of the people of Israel , therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them . ’ |
| 24 | The bitterness of repeated daily confrontation with left-wing majorities has given them a steeliness entirely absent from the old-fashioned candidates . |
| 25 | Not that it 's that easy to shop for clothes , that 's why most disabled girls end up wearing what people have given them . |
| 26 | A programme does not have to be conventionally ‘ nine to five , structured but participants are more likely to accommodate themselves to unusual arrangements if you 've given them time for themselves . |
| 27 | Mary Tudor 's death had given them hope , but that was far from certain victory . |
| 28 | In 1896 , for example , the year in which Radnor Park Congregational Chapel in Folkestone spent £7,000 and Albion Church in Ashton-under-Lyne spent £50,000 on new buildings , Congregationalists at Rothbury in Northumberland built a new chapel for £1,400 but they were fortunate in having the land given them by Lord Armstrong , the arms magnate . |
| 29 | The Franciscan friars of Reading found it necessary in 1234 to obtain from the king a letter ordering the warden of Windsor Forest not to exact cheminage in respect of the timber given them in the forest for their buildings at Reading . |
| 30 | My all-time favourite remark was made by a visiting Chesterfield supporter who watched silently as his team prepared to take a penalty in the dying seconds of a game at Barnsley which would have given them the draw . |