Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [verb] they [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trustingly she slipped a small hand into one of his , and she would have gone with him anywhere , but he detached her fingers after giving them a reassuring squeeze . |
| 2 | The court will not , however , read an ambiguity into clear words by giving them a strained or tortured meaning . |
| 3 | But I just hope Rugby League bosses will help the rest of the British talent by giving them the right set-up in which to play and train . ’ |
| 4 | This has the positive advantage of giving them a broad-based appeal across a diversified range of industries and functions and always having somebody in the team who can potentially suit the chemistry of a particular client . |
| 5 | erm so er tt I think the other thing that 'll be nice if erm er given , if the first years are filling it in er in about a week and a half 's time , if we could if you could try and bash some of the data in fairly rapidly so that , you know kind of before the end of term we can , you know , kind of give them a brief digest of how , what , what the results were |
| 6 | For six years up to the war , they had raised millions to help their German cousins and had absorbed over 60,000 refugees , not all of them living off charity by any means , but with the great majority owing thanks to Jewish organisations for giving them a new start . |
| 7 | And they 're not just doing it for the money because , you know , if you just sort of give them a mundane task like trolleys for example , they 're banging on the door , you know , when can I get off this , when am I going to get some responsibility . |
| 8 | That hand of mine wo n't go the right shape although I 've tried , I knew it would deform joints and so I put all my efforts into spreading them the opposite way , but I have n't won on that one , can you see ? |
| 9 | FRANCE pursues a single-minded policy to promote families by giving them a large tax deduction for each child , in addition to an allowance for mothers who stay at home . |
| 10 | In the old days , travel agents looked after their customers by finding them the best-value hotels at the required destination . |
| 11 | Once you 've finished with the Steamatic , allow your carpets to dry for 1–2 hours before giving them a good vacuum to remove any remaining dirt particles . |
| 12 | Most teachers want to work hard , and they will not generally use this exercise to con people into giving them an easy life . |
| 13 | No employer has a right to take the work of a man or a woman without paying them a living wage . |
| 14 | The reforms which might be expected from this theoretical starting-point are moves towards market mechanisms or some surrogate for them which can be used both to influence the behaviour of bureaucrats by giving them a different set of incentives , and to increase the range of choice available to the consumers of public — in this case particularly local government — services . |
| 15 | A friend of mine lost a whole litter by feeding them a wild goose which he thought had died as a result of a collision with overhead power cables . |
| 16 | But , but the other thing about giving them a standardised test at the re , when when they first arrived with us , is when you get the parent who comes and says well how they were level five in the primary school and you 've only given them level four ? |
| 17 | Our universities can not get hold of our great industrial centres in any permanent way unless they raise them In self-respect and dignity by giving them an intellectual understanding of their vocatIons … |
| 18 | Do not reveal your hand by telling them the complete story , but never lie ; if you make a commitment stick to it ; be tough , abrasive and if necessary cunning but always trustworthy . |
| 19 | ‘ I know it sounds bizarre to say that when someone has made an awful lot of money and had a lot of fame and adulation , but you can wreck their minds , you can wreck their self-ego and esteem by giving them the whole wrong picture of themselves by pretending they are good at one thing when they are not and boosting other things . |
| 20 | ‘ And they 've let the Bravoes in given them a potential scandal that … |