Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The tiny Regency houses had no doubt been listed to spare them the attentions of developers ; from the state of the paving stones and the grass-studded cracks in the roadway , it seemed that the town council too had passed them by . |
| 3 | The models he works with may be shot by all the big name photographers , but it is the pictures that they do with Steven Meisel that will make them the icons of our times . |
| 4 | ‘ Bring me the women first , ’ Implexion had said , striding into the largest tent and making it his temporary headquarters . |
| 5 | Sometimes erm given me the questions and sometimes answering the questions for me , its always informing me and over the last few years I 've erm , I said that to try and understand erm , how to use this information in my own work as , as a writer , and I see , I see parallels in all forms of art , communication is of course one , erm and the need to recognise and respond the plight of others is , is another area and the area that as a writer I 'm particularly drawn too . |
| 6 | ‘ My hosts have driven me down the avenue and given me the figures . |
| 7 | You have n't given me the bits missing from the Mirror . |
| 8 | You have n't given me the bits missing from the Mirror . |
| 9 | They have just given me the reasons why , which , as I see it , I am not at liberty to reveal at this stage . |
| 10 | There 's another in the keep would have done just as well , but seal or no seal , they 'd have wanted a better tale than I could think of before they 'd have given me the keys of the keep . |
| 11 | I did n't much like it , mice and such like have always given me the creeps , but I did feel sorry for it being shut up . |
| 12 | ‘ Various people have given me the names of its chauffeurs over the years — , and , but I would be glad of any further information anyone may have of this wonderful carriage ’ he said . |
| 13 | Alex , who had given me the cigarettes , was Scottish and had been at Lille for three days ; he had deserted from the Military Police in Germany , and thought that French food was nowhere as good as Glaswegian . |
| 14 | ( We should hear the question ‘ Who sold them the weapons ? ’ more often . ) |
| 15 | My right hon. and learned Friend the Chief Secretary has given them the figures on investment in this country and they are rather good . |
| 16 | Peers may also miss today 's Competition game against Mochdre , but the skills of Darren Peters and all-rounder Kevin Owen could still earn them the points needed to keep them in touch with the pacemakers . |
| 17 | He nodded , paid the deposit , again in US dollars , and passed me the keys . |
| 18 | ‘ They send me the ones I need . |
| 19 | So I said okay , okay , yeah , send me the forms . |
| 20 | Send me the details when you send your account . ’ |
| 21 | If you have to go out to deliberately buy them the chances are that you wo n't but if you buy the occasional packet when you happen to see them you can have a grand time selecting them to effect a change on a sweater at the right time . |
| 22 | ‘ He promised me the ricks would be covered , and he has n't done it ! |
| 23 | Bann face Garvey at Blaris on Wednesday night ( 8pm ) and Holywood at Olympia next Saturday , needing two outright wins to secure them the honours . |
| 24 | When wicked women called Charlottes came to tempt them the hermits cast off all their clothes and rolled naked in the patch of nettles behind the pigsty . |
| 25 | It thus becomes highly convenient to view the market , in a world of production , as if all entrepreneurial activity were in fact carried on by producers ; in other words , it now becomes convenient to think of resource owners and consumers as passive price-takers , exercising no entrepreneurial judgement of their own and simply reacting passively to the opportunities to sell and buy which the producer-entrepreneurs hold out to them directly . |
| 26 | The example of Ballymurphy Knitwear is apposite — a community initiative which failed because of inadequate resourcing and government support for the manifest will to work which the women involved displayed . |
| 27 | Should you want to escape reality for a while , £12 would buy you the skills of a trained , uniformed chauffeur for an hour . |
| 28 | Since they do n't even know who the councillors are , I can only assume that North Tyneside is being victimised through ignorance and dogma . |
| 29 | Erm s so you 've now got the situation in modern times where people probably go out to work all day , come home at the end and do n't even know who the names of the people living next door to them . |
| 30 | Do you know who the characters are ? |