Example sentences of "[vb pp] they [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You feel like you 've heard them a couple of hundred times when it 's only been twice . |
| 2 | Lowell had heard them a few times before on the Sundays when life was normal and they were just background music at the commencement of an ordinary day . |
| 3 | A local garage owner has leant them a car to help in the short term . |
| 4 | they they get an allowance for somebody to clean and if they 've got a cleaner , I mean , they should have sacked them a long while ago ! |
| 5 | Original by the look of it , and so were the banisters , but someone had painted them a kind of snot green . |
| 6 | Well , he had taught them a swift , certain lesson : that no ten hired lackeys of the Emperor Karl Franz were a match for a single noble son of Bretonnia . |
| 7 | When an animal is brought in , especially an otter which is very nervous , we 've taught them the basic techniques of how to save them . |
| 8 | But he was so scared of them getting his own father that he had given them no names at all , not even his own . |
| 9 | The Seven had given them no real choice : they could be Han or they could be nothing . |
| 10 | Iron Josh had certainly given them no trouble when they had driven into his yard at the back of Old George 's Street and ordered him to climb into the cart . |
| 11 | We 've given them no bother as far the union is concerned — they 've had a free hand and we feel severely let down |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And banks say that John Major 's Treasury and local-government ministers have given them a more sympathetic hearing than Margaret Thatcher 's . |
| 16 | The bitterness of repeated daily confrontation with left-wing majorities has given them a steeliness entirely absent from the old-fashioned candidates . |
| 17 | Empirical research in the 1960s demonstrated that even in the cases where the middle class had been initially progressive , success had given them a conservative outlook and led them to join forces with the traditional elite rather than with the working class ( Ratinoff 1967 , Sunkel 1965 ) . |
| 18 | Napoleon III in his capacity as sovereign had great personal dignity as well as charm , but as an individual his knowledge of human beings and their behaviour set him apart from other European monarchs , whose more cloistered and conventional upbringing had given them a less perceptive outlook on people . |
| 19 | In so doing they will be building on their earlier writing experiences which should have given them a positive view of themselves as writers who are capable of making and receiving meanings using a variety of forms depending on audience and purpose . |
| 20 | Nutty had given them a thorough grounding in the process , and put out the evening feeds ready , not trusting them to get the quantities right . |
| 21 | This has given them a movie picture of the structural changes , built up from snapshots taken only a few seconds apart . |
| 22 | More than one of them remarked on how pleasant it was to return to base in the early hours , cold , cramped and tired out , to see our welcoming smiles as they called in at the office on their way down to the Mess , even though they had probably only called in to tear us off a strip for having given them a rotten weather forecast . |
| 23 | The standard answer , given with that gleam of superiority that the young delight in , was , ‘ No , Dr Clarke , they are not suitable because you have given them a blood transfusion . ’ |
| 24 | Their great rarity has given them a special value in times past , so that they have often escaped the indifference and persecution that has befallen the commonplace moggies . |
| 25 | Computational experience has shown that pseudo-costs do not vary too much from node to node ( which is why we have not given them a ‘ k ’ subscript ) . |
| 26 | In short , Labour and the Liberal Democrats will have the argument won for them on the ground — and as long as they locate their policies in terms of wealth creation , rather than punitive redistribution , the current election election result has given them a platform from which effectively to challenge for power next time round . |
| 27 | Under the energetic leadership of H. L. Dowbiggin , Inspector-General from 1913 to 1937 , the police gained sophistication which may have given them a relative advantage over some lawbreakers . |
| 28 | Trailing 6-3 , Cardiff won a last-chance scrum on the Swansea line and the players pressured Hall into running the ball rather than going for a drop goal which would have given them a draw . |
| 29 | Something must have given them a shake-up . |
| 30 | Although Mikhailichenko should have given them a 15th-minute lead , Marseille increasingly controlled the game . |