Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'll go on bringing me cigarettes ( if he does n't I sha n't ask him for them ) and food . |
| 2 | We went to see them horses remember ? bloody screaming ! |
| 3 | It 's not only bring them blokes round . |
| 4 | They attack the status quo by pointing out that the reasons given for denying rights to children are bad reasons , and then explicitly or implicitly deny them duties for no reason at all . |
| 5 | What made them lords were their noble deeds . |
| 6 | However , there was available to them an unlimited quantity of quality seasoned wood , excellent metals and fabrics , and sound examples of rare stone , all worked by men whose seven-year apprenticeships made them masters of their craft . |
| 7 | I liked the idea of other people feeling sorry for me , even though I also despised them for it , because I was n't worth their sympathy and that made them fools . |
| 8 | ARSENAL boss George Graham last night blasted his multi-million pound stars for squandering the qualities which made them giants of English football . |
| 9 | Had Andrewes remained in Cambridge , his reputation would probably have been unblemished but he would have lacked the stimulus to write the magnificent sermons which he preached at Court ; and he would not willingly have engaged in the controversial writing in which for the first time he set out the Anglican Church 's position in terms which European scholars could respect ; above all his Preces , even had they been written , would not have contained the breadth of experience , and the depth of feeling , based on that experience , which made them treasures of the Church . |
| 10 | You made them cakes that time did n't you ? |
| 11 | Constance spent hours drawing imaginary clothes for the mannequins and , encouraged by Miss Hatherby and her mother , made them dresses out of scraps of old material Miss Hatherby managed to find tucked away in the corners of Seaton Cramer Hall . |
| 12 | But stand-in skipper McAllister is confident that Leeds will bounce back in the style that made them champions last May . |
| 13 | And precisely what distressed her about John 's outburst was that it once more put that distance between them ; it made them opposites sinner and sinned against , penitent and confessor , worm and angel . |
| 14 | She bit her lip and kept her peace , and even made them cups of tea with the same grace that her mother had demonstrated in the dark hours of the night . |
| 15 | The fact that the local authority had the legal right to control the premises made them occupiers to the exclusion of the previous owners of the house . |
| 16 | What is beyond dispute is that the portfolio valuations benefited on two counts : firstly through translation of foreign share holdings into sterling at more advantageous rates , and secondly through the appreciation of the shares of those companies whose large overseas involvement made them beneficiaries of a lower pound . |
| 17 | You made them Horlicks or Ovaltine or tea or coffee . |
| 18 | Made them watchers , not doers ; passive , not active . |
| 19 | And I made them jigs and whatnot. when they come to do it at Dolgarrog when they come to want them doing I said to the to the the chief engineer I said , he told me about they were going get these commutators done here machine . |
| 20 | It made them temptresses . |
| 21 | Further , the neat division of society into a minority of freeholders sharply contrasted with the mass of tenant farmers and landless men stops far short of the whole truth in its failure to acknowledge the interest of copyholders whose security of tenure made them freeholders in all but name , or to distinguish leaseholders with long terms from mere tenants at will . |
| 22 | ‘ The way he turns on the television as soon as he walks into the room drives me nuts , ’ she says . |
| 23 | It drives me nuts to see all the jobs that are out there to be done . ’ |
| 24 | I told you , this phone drives me nuts ! |
| 25 | Mossad proposed that to conceal the plan they would send TOW missiles to Iran from their own stocks and America would ship them replenishments . |
| 26 | ‘ I ai n't yer old sweet'eart , ’ said Mrs Beavis , whose naturally sunny beam did not always shine for everyone , ‘ and I 'appen to be keepin' me hands to meself . ’ |
| 27 | Government in not allowing them passports until 1985 might have protected the children at a crucial time in their development . |
| 28 | Enjoying them crisps ! |
| 29 | Greenpeace sell them mugs and re-use labels and sort of things like that . |
| 30 | Its PC-software strategy centres on brand loyalty : lure customers in with operating systems , sell them applications software , keep them sweet — and the cash flowing in — with regular upgrades . |