Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.

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1 see you 've given her the
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 As it is , I have reservations about the application of the user interface in the Windows version , and will have to wait to see what the next version brings before I can make up my mind any more firmly than I can at present .
4 ‘ We intend to establish what the attitude of the financial institutions is to the industry , ’ said CIOB Commercial Director Julian Barlow .
5 You ca n't hear nothing cos the glass is too thick , so you got to guess what the people are saying .
6 Visitors to Buckingham are hard pressed to guess what the gothic style building in the town 's centre once was .
7 Though popular with patients , such a departure from traditional practice has been known to outrage consultants , demanding to know what the researcher is doing with their patients !
8 If the only way to give the drama momentum is to allow through ( 1 ) an emergence of crude competition between the teacher and pupils or through the even cruder ‘ I 'm the baddy not to be trusted ’ approach of ( 4 ) , then she may have to abandon altogether her intention to open up ( 2 ) , the recognition by the townsfolk that here is an official who can not know and indeed who does not want to know what the cost of this decision will be to those of us who are faced with it .
9 And I would want to know what the health effects were on them of the conditions in which they had to work .
10 She does not principally want to know what the data signify in themselves but how texts reflect processes of communication , and how and why they were used to organise purposeful action , make valid claims , or to express feelings .
11 But I do think the minister er should er b be quite clear about that point er because er it may be of crucial importance , not just to the industry , er but also to the public interest who will want to know what the position is so far as er er these matters are concerned .
12 And if he come along he would want to know who the man 's doctor was .
13 Surtees was a good choice , but I never got to know him the way I did Graham Hill , Jackie Stewart and Pedro Rodriguez .
14 You , you can have your erm if you were watching a programme and er , I 've done this , erm if you 're watching a programme and you want to see what the weather forecast is er you can have that superimposed on your programme .
15 — You want to see who the real winner is , then look up there . ’
16 And a performance that helped make him the Queen Mum 's favourite .
17 IAN McCANN cruises the mean streets of Kingston to find out what a crap fist they 're making of the great man 's legacy , and to talk to some of those who helped make him the Third World 's finest musical ambassador .
18 And when they started to shout these people out shopping , cos everybody stopped to see what the fellers screaming about .
19 Once he frogmarched a knocker out of a press conference , although it transpired that he could hardly wait to see what the victim wrote next .
20 He would wait to see what the negotiation process turned up , he said , but " only if real progress is made during negotiations , and if there are obvious and clearly defined benefits for my country and its people , will we consider any possible change to our present constitutional position " .
21 Without an art school training , Romanowski , now in his late 20s , has taught himself the methods of the masters through reproductions in books and paintings hanging on gallery walls .
22 No politician could have bettered it : ‘ Experience has taught us the fallibility of the assertion that crime rates amongst those of West Indian origin are no higher than those of the population at large . ’
23 Or to put it another way , let us see how badly Miss Honey has taught you the three-times table . ’
24 He talked of ‘ the white man 's Christ ’ , invoked to preserve what the white man has got ; and of the ‘ black man 's Christ ’ — the Christ of suffering and sacrifice .
25 The Treasury Bench has heard what the hon. Gentleman said .
26 The Queen has been told that she is not to summon anybody to form a Government until she has heard who the new Leader is .
27 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 .
28 The broad guiding principle , attested by many authorities , is that one looks to see what the taxpayer has done to earn the profit in question .
29 Thus Lord Bridge 's guiding principle could properly be expanded to read ‘ one looks to see what the taxpayer has done to earn the profit in question and where he has done it . ’
30 As Burn tried to tend him the plane exploded .
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