Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] they the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Yugoslavia 's biggest postwar strike , nearly 700,000 workers in Serbia 's textile , leather and metallurgical industries stopped work on April 16 to demand that the Serbian government pay them the guaranteed minimum monthly wage , backdated to January , and that it abolish new taxes introduced at the end of 1990 . |
| 2 | At Corbett 's bidding an old man showed them the blood-spattered piece of ground where their priest had been found . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | " The prosperity and technology of the developed countries give them the greater possibilities and the greater responsibility " . |
| 5 | All my young ferrets get a similar introduction to give them the necessary experience for bigger operations within major burrow systems . |
| 6 | But North West teenagers receive an extra 20p making them the third highest paid in the country . |
| 7 | Two separate grounds were advanced in support of the claim , namely , ( 1 ) the broad constitutional point that as the Commissioners of Customs and Excise had no authority from Parliament to impose the charges and the corporation were under no legal liability to pay them the latter should be entitled to recover , and ( 2 ) that the condictio indebiti applied where there was error in the interpretation of a public general statute . |
| 8 | The pose of the bald egg-shaped heads , the jointed arms stiffly flexed in a parody of benediction , the staring eyes and curved arrow-like lips gave them the hieratic look of a couple of painted deities . |
| 9 | Doohan and Gardner had their Hondas working well at Eastern Creek even though the NSR 's awesome power gives them the most wheelspin worries . |
| 10 | When asked which of all their various roles gave them the greatest satisfaction , 47% opted for being a mother , 22% simply being themselves , 15% being a partner/lover and just 10% being a working woman . |
| 11 | CORK 'S superior craft and greater practical awareness earned them the Royal Liver National Hurling League title after a marathon contest with Wexford in Thurles yesterday . |
| 12 | The band 's aggregate scores gave them the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association championship for their grade . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The listeners tuned in to the German wavelengths because they found Joyce amusing unintentionally or for his anecdotes , or else because they wished to hear both sides of the argument , or even because they did not trust their own authorities to tell them the whole truth . |
| 15 | ELTON John and his partner Bernie Taupin joined the ranks of the greats today after an American company paid them the biggest advance in music history . |
| 16 | That 's why we aim to empower young people to give them the maximum choice to build their own success . |
| 17 | Counting numbers those are the numbers you use for counting things with like three or six or most people call them the normal numbers . |