Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , from Highgate has said if the good lord wanted cats to fly he would 've given them wings , it 's cruel doing things like that to animals . |
| 2 | I mean they could 've given them a wee , a wee two bedroom around our w our way rightly . |
| 3 | Erm not any more I do n't I 've given them all away hello , are there any spare handouts in the room ? |
| 4 | No but you were saying before that had it worked it would 've given them a problem . |
| 5 | They say the majority of the staff group they met considered they were able to foster better relations when prisoners wore civilian clothes . |
| 6 | The visitors were again struck by injury ; a problem which has plagued them all season . |
| 7 | ‘ I have not noticed that coming to London has stopped them having babies , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Farmers say that this month 's heavy rain has stopped them harvesting much of their wheat . |
| 9 | However , no accounting standard-setting body in the world has recognized them as serious propositions for replacing accruals accounting . |
| 10 | They can only act as he has taught them . |
| 11 | But , talk to Stevely on the subject of how well he has taught them and this most modest of men will go off at a tangent , drawing attention to the extent to which both girls have been prepared to work . |
| 12 | And Martin has taught them to say you stupid zombie . |
| 13 | A local garage owner has leant them a car to help in the short term . |
| 14 | I bet Otley has scoffed them all , greedy pig . |
| 15 | now in terms of actual cost in particular , I 'm quite prepared to release those figures to you once Mr has checked them |
| 16 | Their religious faith has sustained them in sickness , and in health has prompted concern for the ills of others . |
| 17 | In all cases , if the creatures actually get out of their cell they die instantly , since only the magic within each cell has sustained them so long . |
| 18 | The Mamur Zapt has tricked them . |
| 19 | The synthesised female voice that responds to your commands and verifies that it has heard them correctly is amiable enough , though clearly not to be trifled with . |
| 20 | Everyone has heard them . |
| 21 | She sits and watches , and they do not even realize that she has provoked them to it . |
| 22 | Sullivan has grouped the papers under five topics , and has fleshed them out with excellent introductions to each section and helpful editorial notes throughout . |
| 23 | And she has assigned them to me . |
| 24 | Twenty-one year old Derwyn Jones , at 6ft 10ins and 18½ stone the biggest forward in Wales , has joined them from Llanelli . |
| 25 | Lancashire 's hope is that slow left-armer Alex Barnett , who has joined them from Middlesex , will develop over the next few seasons into the matchwinning spinner they have been seeking ever since Jack Simmons retired . |
| 26 | Saul Clifford has joined them from Stokesley . |
| 27 | Once their condition has stabilised they may have to face a whole range of issues : new restrictions ; new sensations ; new embarrassments ; new lifestyles . |
| 28 | But he has forsaken them for the moment , at least in his current Emmerich show , ‘ Some Very Recent Paintings ’ ( opening 14 January ) . |
| 29 | He has placed them both on the sofa under the magnificent painting of a Ramayana demon by his Thai protegé , not facing one another across his huge desk , to indicate that this is an intimate and informal interview , not to be taken too seriously whatever she says . |
| 30 | This present dependence on others for the correction of minor matters may trigger more profound resentment in old people about the degree and nature of the dependence in which old age has placed them . |