Example sentences of "[verb] they the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You could dye them the same colour , ’ said Betty . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Went to see them the other week |
| 4 | They always bring them the same day so there 's not much point in looking anywhere else . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On Wednesday evening , the Admiral looked in on the club after dinner and Amiss heard him say goodnight to the five , remarking that he had a little work to do in the office , after which he would get back home and turn in : he looked forward to seeing them the following day . |
| 7 | Sussex , though , are unlikely to be among the cynical chorus , not after their slip-up against the Minor Counties on a Marlow marsh made them the 14th first-class county in 55– or 6–overs play to have their colours lowered by junior opposition . |
| 8 | The third John Booth provided much of the capital for his partners , Samuel and Aaron Walker , when they established the business that eventually made them the leading ironmasters in the North of England . |
| 9 | The assurance with which Gothic schemes were presented made them the obvious alternative to Second Empire , but large secular Gothic buildings of this type were an unknown quantity . |
| 10 | ‘ Grey ’ issues of money occur whenever enterprises that are short of funds to pay their obligations insist that the banks should make them the necessary advances to restore their ‘ liquidity ’ . |
| 11 | This will make them the first and fifth most visited attractions in the world , with the other three being existing Disney sites . |
| 12 | You could make them the same overall diameter , you could even get the tensions to be the same , but when you play those strings they 're going to feel completely different because a string with a thin core and a heavy wrap is going to move more freely than one with a heavy core and a thin wrap . |
| 13 | When we got into the studio , I got Gibson to send a few guitars down for a try-out and I ended up using them the whole way through the album . |
| 14 | Because obviously if you had one particular factory on the tideway and another producing an identical product and identical effluent in one of the tributaries , you could n't treat them the same because they 're patently different cases . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Well they say the more you pick them the more they come is n't it ? |
| 17 | Typically , teen magazines like Smash Hits , were soon on the case and presented them as a ‘ new ’ band , although none went as far as dubbing them the customary , overnight success . |
| 18 | The frictions grew steadily worse , and in an attempt to accommodate them the 1897 Vienna Congress resolved that the party become a federation of six national parties . |
| 19 | Be having another now cos he read them the other day . |
| 20 | ‘ The lean-line droopiness of Michael Crawford and Oliver Reed 's big-drum bravado make them the best double act since Laurel and Hardy , ’ wrote Alexander Walker in the London Evening Standard . |
| 21 | No , you make them the same as us ! |
| 22 | ‘ And I sold them the best . |
| 23 | These same people the , even when faced with the blatant facts of their mistakes , still hurl at the hapless retailer who unwittingly sold them the five 3″ goldfish that they tried to cram into a small glass bowl full of raw tapwater . |
| 24 | they 'd take a piece with them and that was all they had to sustain them the whole day . |
| 25 | We sat them down and gave them a drink and asked them the usual stuff . |
| 26 | I abruptly asked them the same question I had of Benjamin . |
| 27 | Because I asked in the other classes , three or four American students , and I asked them the same question . |
| 28 | In his absence , I afterwards asked them the same questions , and they were able to explain quite adequately . |
| 29 | Wonderful Members of Parliament , who , little more than twenty years before , had made themselves merry with the wild railroad theories of engineers , and given them the liveliest rubs in cross-examination , went down into the north with their watches in their hands , and sent on messages before by the electric telegraph , to say that they were coming Night and day the conquering engines rumbled at their distant work , or advancing smoothly to their journey 's end , and gliding like tame dragons into the allotted corners grooved out to the inch for their reception , stood bubbling and trembling there , making the walls quake , as if they were dilating with the secret knowledge of great powers yet unsuspected in them , and strong purposes not yet achieved . |
| 30 | Given them the negative polarity item I give a damn . |