Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Someone in the audience has asked me to greet them the way the chimpanzees greet each other in the wild at Gombe , ’ Jane Goodall began . |
| 2 | But you 've taught me the difference between art and life . |
| 3 | My father who was a er a clergyman taught me the piano from an early age and er I first became interested in the organ purely for money purposes in fact , when at the age of fifteen a local methodist church in Durham where we lived at the time said er , We need an organist . |
| 4 | ‘ You could dye them the same colour , ’ said Betty . |
| 5 | I with the jack , so I thought well somebody will throw me the thing , you know ? |
| 6 | Cooke says : ‘ Egg pasta is certainly preferred by many chefs not only because of its excellent colour and flavour , but because it offers them the possibility of upgrading their pasta menus , thus increasing their profits . ’ |
| 7 | The prison governor tells them they are about to be shot and offers them the choice of dying like men or wearing blindfolds . |
| 8 | It has become a familiar complaint of managers this season , dissatisfied that the ‘ brave new world ’ of the Premier League merely offers them the same problems as the old . |
| 9 | Sally Cline 's Women , Celibacy and Passion ( Deutsch , March , £15.99 , 0 233 98804 1 ) will reawaken the debate about sexual abstinence last seen in Liz Hodgkinson 's Sex Is Not Compulsory : Ms Cline identifies a new breed of passionate non-performers , ‘ women who believe that celibacy offers them the independence , the creative time and energy for their own growth and work which conventional sexuality has not allowed them ’ . |
| 10 | Whereas the Third Republic did set out to improve the aesthetic education of these citizens , the modern welfare State offers them the bread and circuses of culture as spectacle and entertainment . |
| 11 | But whatever age , Stow offers them the chance to meet up with old friends and catch up on the gossip . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , by the way , Blair , ’ I called , ‘ whilst you are there , would you mind bringing me the fish I caught in the stream ? |
| 13 | Thank you very much for bringing me the transistor — and I 'm sorry , Dr Vaughan . |
| 14 | Went to see them the other week |
| 15 | He came to see me the other evening . |
| 16 | She came to see me the first night I was home , and we sat on the verandah , rather tongue-tied after such a long time , saying stupid things like : " Did you have a good trip ? " |
| 17 | I 've had them born in the car on the way the the mother have come to see me the father has brought her to see me thinking that if she could just see me she 'd be alright . |
| 18 | I had someone come to see me the other week from the R S P C A because they said this cat was held forty foot in the air |
| 19 | He strode to her , eyes blazing , and shouted , ‘ Why did you specifically come to see me the minute you found out I had my own investment bank ? ’ |
| 20 | They always bring them the same day so there 's not much point in looking anywhere else . |
| 21 | They serve as a valuable corrective to approaches of the kind that a behaviourist view might encourage , approaches which impose conformity on learners , reduce the scope of their participation as persons , and deny them the exercise of individual initiative in the learning process . |
| 22 | He sees the deviant group as creating its own circumstances to the extent that it makes meaningful the societal reactions to it , or better generates meaning for itself in a world whose societal reactions deny them the full status of persons . |
| 23 | It has conveniently been handed over to the training and enterprise councils , but then the Government cynically deny them the resources to do the job . |
| 24 | How do we encourage membership when you openly deny them the right to vote ? |
| 25 | Keep them out and you deny them the chance to share in our unpopularity . |
| 26 | It 's wrong , Mr Deputy Speaker , if they 're living in this country erm on a semi-permanent basis and happen to have been here last October they 'll have a vote so will any everybody else who 's a citizen of the European union , so will peers of the realm who happen to be living elsewhere whether they 're in this country or outside this country under these regulations and previous regulations , have a vote in the European elections and I think it 's wholly wrong that erm citizens of other European countries namely France because that 's the one and it 's remarkable is it not that France is the one that 's gon na be the cause of this whole edifice collapsing if we do n't submit to their extra demands but citizens of France who are citizens living in their colonies , as I 've said in South America , the West Indies and the Pacific , will have a vote in the European elections on June the ninth and yet we have got citizens for whom we are responsible for in this house , we can not shirk it onto anyone else , we deny them the responsibility and I think it 's about time the house addressed this matter . |
| 27 | WHATEVER the home unions committee may care to think , the team who performed with great distinction in Paris are Lions to a man — and if the powers-that-be will not grant them the honour with a large ‘ L ’ they can hardly begrudge it with a small one . |
| 28 | ‘ And you 're sure that this Bermuda company controlled by you will lend me the half-million pounds in cash to buy these shares , at no interest ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Will you lend me the money ? ’ asked Elaine , shame-faced . |
| 30 | but I said because you bring some guy , you 'll lend me the room on a Sunday afternoons , up and down |