Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] them [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They claimed that drinking the tea gave them an intense , trip-like experience . |
| 2 | So their own minister held a service at the station , and the agent gave them a good dinner cheering them on in Gaelic , at which they wept , and they went on to settle at Moosomin , where they lived happily ever afterwards . |
| 3 | City had not won a League game at Portman Road for 30 years , and had not scored in their last seven visits , but the jinx looked to have come to an end when Gary Flitcroft 's first senior goal for the club gave them a 37th minute lead . |
| 4 | ‘ Usefulness ’ was a key component of the physical scientists ' evaluation of their discipline ; and ‘ usefulness ’ referred to the capacity of the degree to get them a well-paid job . |
| 5 | The bachelor gave them an angry look . |
| 6 | Fine songs such as ‘ Mean To Me ’ or ‘ I Ca n't Get Started ’ appear to be close to perfect here but such trifles as ‘ With Thee I Swing ’ and ‘ You 're Too Lovely To Last ’ are just as charming because the singer gives them the same sensitive treatment . |
| 7 | Eventually a noise abatement notice was served on them , and erm immediately after that the landlord offered them a hundred pounds to leave , and they left . |
| 8 | These attractive little bagrid are active during the day making them a useful addition to the mature , well-established and maintained planted community tank . |
| 9 | The captain showed them a rough map drawn crudely on tough , brown vellum and with a stubby finger and guttural comments pointed out the coastline of Fife , the manor of Kinghorn and the possible place where the French could dock to pick up a party from the beach . |
| 10 | The Green Bay Packers kept alive their play-off bid when Brett Favre 's six-yard pass to Sterling Sharpe late in the game gave them a 16-14 win at the Houston Oilers . |
| 11 | There was time when they had to bribe er , give some sort of er incentive to the foreman to give them a good time , then it was the shop stewards who would give the workers to the management who will do the o overtime . |
| 12 | The offer made them a special case but by the same token was condemned by other groups such as the ancillary workers , who protested that they were offered only 4 per cent . |
| 13 | De Soto and his researchers , which include economists , sociologists and anthropologists and lawyers , have worked out some of the stark costs of formality in Peru : if a group of humble families gather and ask the government to give them an empty plot of land to live on , they must fill out a maze of forms and go to scores of ministry , municipal and other government offices , a process that averages six years and 11 months . |
| 14 | Still , the two parties have moved towards the round-table talks that both want — although the government calls them a multi-party conference , whereas the ANC looks forward to an all-party congress , to be followed eventually by an elected constituent assembly . |
| 15 | A group of young teenage girls once admitted to me that although they frequently complained because their parents insisted that they should be home by a certain time , they recognized that the deadline gave them a useful excuse for not getting out of their depth . |
| 16 | GHI verdict : Our testers , heavy with cold , found that the vaporiser gave them a good night 's sleep ; even their husbands/partners slept better . |
| 17 | The British team looked quite forlorn in comparison by the time the fighters got on the mat , the Japanese conceding them a small corner . |
| 18 | You will be listening to many of these as the election approaches as they are a wonderful invention of the broadcasting industry : a reporter stands alone with just a small tape recorder to protect him and leaps out in front of unsuspecting members of the public asking them an inane question . |
| 19 | And the earth gives them the O.K. |
| 20 | Had he been in Whitechapel , Charlie would have been happy to run up and down the market from five in the morning to seven at night and still box a few rounds at the club , drink a couple of pints of beer and carry out the same routine the next day without a second thought , but when at nine o'clock the sergeant-major gave them a ten-minute break for cocoa he collapsed on to the verge exhausted . |
| 21 | Nor could the citizens of Northern Ireland claim that the agreement gives them a legal right ( although possibly a moral or political right ) to a referendum before the British Parliament passed pertinent legislation . |
| 22 | Some Arabs in a tent gave them a little water and then the exhausted men finally stumbled into an outpost of the King 's Dragoon Guards . |
| 23 | Shower heads should be cleaned regularly with a nail brush ; every so often use a descaler to give them a good clean . |
| 24 | In return for permission to reside on Henderson , Smiley Ratliff has promised to provide the inhabitants of nearby Pitcairn Island with the use of his proposed airstrip , a launch to ferry them the 90 or so miles between Pitcairn and Henderson . |
| 25 | ‘ The portacabin provided us with a way to offer them the best possible service under the circumstances . ’ |
| 26 | Three are commonly identified i.e. national , local and school , and in an attempt to clarify them the following paragraphs examine each in turn . |
| 27 | The frictions grew steadily worse , and in an attempt to accommodate them the 1897 Vienna Congress resolved that the party become a federation of six national parties . |
| 28 | And what happens to them , again , through the Occupational Health Centre , th they arra arrange for an optician to give them a full , full eye test and then we get a report back on that situation . |
| 29 | She moved with natural grace , gliding between the tables , approaching customers who showed an interest to give them an extra twirl , unbuttoning the little figure-hugging jacket and posing with her hand on her waist , rucking up the jacket slightly to display the blouse underneath as she had seen the professional models do . |