Example sentences of "they [verb] we [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we should encourage them to microfilm them and then we should then encourage them to give us a a , a |
| 2 | Er I will have explained er er I certainly would 've explained on the phone that er part of the contract requires them to give us a list of prospective advertisers . |
| 3 | It does please me but the thing sometimes is , you do n't get results , I mean I just said to him at half time ‘ come on we 've got to be a bit stronger , ’ you know I thought we were playing quite well , but I thought we were letting them dominate us a little bit . |
| 4 | ‘ And they bring us the tourain . ’ |
| 5 | I mean they outclassed us no question , no two ways about it , I du n no what it is . |
| 6 | So when , when they sold off the buildings , they made us no inclination that the was gon na farm it , he was in another job ? |
| 7 | They asked us a stream of questions , and laughed and chattered about themselves and their children . |
| 8 | ‘ If we comb through our stories and one encounters with wild whales and dolphins , we find that they seem to hang together along a shining thread — that whales and dolphins know what they are doing , that their actions are purposeful , and stunningly specific to the occasion , that they intend us no harm , that they are aware . |
| 9 | But a few years ago , when they promised us the summer heat would last for months , she had it cut short . |
| 10 | And he is really responsible for bringing the three , because they deemed us a worthy cause when they saw er the work that we were doing , to perform free for us that evening in order to boost our funds . |
| 11 | But that 's it the system is n't but they send us a donation which they 'd had for appearing on B B C or something . |
| 12 | They cost us a fortune ! |
| 13 | They show us an exquisite quantity of French cured meats , smoked crayfish , mayonnaise , salads , champagne , pâté , patisserie and chocolates . |
| 14 | They told us a few months ago . |
| 15 | ‘ They told us the Ukrainian single would have gone to number one and we told them we did not want to be number one . |
| 16 | I do n't SEE WHy people grope us together as holigans 'cos we ai n't alright you get troble makers in every facktion But They do nt publish it if a niggeR does a old Biddy do they give us a faiR chance will someone as for stop being a SKIN I do nt think I will . ’ |
| 17 | The gospels do not furnish us with the materials for a modern-style biography , nor do they give us a window into Jesus ' mind by which we could peer into his inmost soul . |
| 18 | They have something like 40 players and they are very competitive and very strong and they caused us a lot of problems . |
| 19 | They ca n't make any profit out of us as they charge us a very reasonable rate . |
| 20 | We pay every week to get into the game ; this money goes to the manager and team , and in return they owe us a good afternoon 's entertainment . |
| 21 | They showed us a spinette and asked if anyone could play the piano . |
| 22 | we went in , you know , and that was the place an'all even the carpet that 's twelve hundred pound , cos they showed us the bill , you know er it 's been a it 's dirty and that but you know that wants , wants a good washing you know |
| 23 | They give us no choice but to fight . |
| 24 | In response Kosygin admitted that ‘ they may not be hurting us , but they give us no pleasure either ’ . |
| 25 | But while the large number of coins means that they give us a large quantity of information , their small size and the consequent brevity of their inscriptions greatly restricts the level of interpretation we can make from them compared with , say , a lengthy edict of a Roman emperor fully inscribed on stone . |
| 26 | Most of all , they give us a unique insight into the quality of family relationships in later life , and the variety of ways in which they could be constructed . |
| 27 | They give us a vivid idea of what the lending libraries would be like if the popular mass-circulation libraries had not been crushed by the public libraries in their politically motivated post-war form . |
| 28 | Lung are never short of ideas , but their appeal is seriously limited because they give us a small taste of everything on their creative menu but seldom enough of one thing to really satisfy . |
| 29 | ‘ They give us a sense of achievement too because we like to take on a caring role and feel responsible . |
| 30 | The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls was therefore very important , since they give us a Hebrew text of much of the Old Testament about a thousand years older than anything we had before . |