Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] they [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Macnab showed them a postcard , sent to him by Joyce from Berlin a few days before . |
2 | So , so are the kind of reasons why Moscavisi calls them the black books . |
3 | United got off to a flyer with Richard Hill giving them a lead after just eight minutes . |
4 | Bernice gave them an encouraging smile , which they returned weakly , and detached herself from their embrace with one last squeeze and one last pat on the shoulder . |
5 | They landed at Inverkeithing and made their way up the cliffs , the summer sun warming their backs , past Aberdour onto Kinghorn Ness , Corbett showing them the place King Alexander III allegedly fell , before going down the path to the royal manor . |
6 | That is why , when the French economy was screaming for lower interest rates , President Mitterrand increased them the other day . |
7 | Frankie gave them a wide berth . |
8 | Rex gave them a shake . |
9 | Intercity gives them a very good image if your journey was on time but it 's definitely there as a a positive thing . |
10 | Cole grants them a grudging accolade . |
11 | After a short time the Duke of Grafton sold them the Rope Walk , a building where the old village craft had been carried out and where Ted Smith 's coach garage is now , and so they moved . |
12 | The group recorded three demo tapes and Gedge made two abortive trips to London to try to persuade John Peel to give them a session . |
13 | Holland has Gullit and Van Basten , England have Barnes and Lineker , Argentina will rely almost exclusively on Maradona to give them a cutting edge . |
14 | But the men from the Midlands had enjoyed themselves so well , they decided the engraved glass trophy should stay in Scotland to give them the excuse to come back and play for it again ! |
15 | Carrefour gave them a wide grin , and stepped down the shadow path to their leader . |
16 | Their strictures on the ‘ maximalism ’ of the Bolsheviks , on the ‘ premature ’ nature of the October revolution , and on the backwardness of Russia gave them a broad area of common ground with the liberal view . |
17 | Hereford battled on … they were down but not out … and gave everything they 'd got … skipper Derek Hall struck them a goal midway through the second half … |
18 | Whitlock telephoned them the moment he returned to the hotel but when Sabrina contacted Lausanne station she was told the only afternoon train had already departed . |
19 | The Swindon win over Bournemouth found them the performance of the week award . |
20 | I went on tour frequently from Simla to most of the main cities of India , speaking to Indian audiences and getting together groups of refugees from Burma to give them the latest news and to encourage them with hopes of victory and return . |
21 | Lord Goff referred to multidisciplinary partnerships as ‘ most objectionable ’ , and Lord Griffiths called them a ‘ profound mistake ’ . |
22 | Jupiter sent them a log . |
23 | The folk at Fanmore gave them a good fight last week , and drove them off with five men dead , and they 've not been seen since . |
24 | They can see that the UN gives them a position at the bargaining table . |
25 | Dalton Grant gave them a headache by beating Liverpudlian favourite Steve Smith in the high jump , 2.25m to a dismal 2.05m . |
26 | Catherine and Mary together sang ‘ The Lover 's Complaint ’ ; Mrs Robinson gave them a moving ballad about a double death on Scafell ; Annie began a song , burst into embarrassment and ran out with Damson mewing ‘ No-oo-oo , No-oo-oo ’ , behind her . |
27 | Scarborough booked a fourth round tie against either Derby or Arsenal when second-half goals from Tommy Mooney and Andy Mockler gave them a 2–1 win over Plymouth . |
28 | He and another left-hander , the more dashing 21-year-old Robert Samuels , provided Jamaica with the batting stability they have so often lacked and captain Courtney Walsh gave them the bowling penetration with a tournament record 36 wickets at 11.30 each that combined to regain the Cup for Jamaica from Barbados , their third success in the last five seasons . |
29 | Boris Anrep , for instance , whom the Berkeleys used to encounter when they stayed with Maud Russell at Mottisfont , gave them the model he painted for the mosaics which were intended for the apse of Westminster Cathedral ( it stands on the chest of drawers in their bedroom ) and Hugh Honour and John Fleming gave them the marble hermaphrodite which reclines on the top of a bookcase in the study . |
30 | Not one to remember , as Cambridge gave them the run around . |