Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] they [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , when Frankie and Liza , my brother and sister , came in from playing I told them the sad news , but they did n't seem very upset . |
| 2 | I give them a hot mash too , as well as letting them scratch about here , we cook up all the scraps in the kitchen . |
| 3 | The only way people will trust me is if I give them a signed piece of paper with my address on . ’ |
| 4 | My eyes were shut most of the time now as I blundered round the park and when I opened them a red mist swirled . |
| 5 | They wo n't wear it for one minute when I tell them the whole story . ’ |
| 6 | I find them a constant worry when they 're sleeping cos you 're making sure whether they 're still breathing |
| 7 | They usually need to be cooked and I use them a great deal with beans and in Mexican dishes , slicing them before cooking . |
| 8 | And they , the company wrote back and said it 's so much a policy and looks reasonable and I sent them a bloody cheque you see |
| 9 | I gave them a bogus address but they did n't check it out . |
| 10 | I gave them a three-hour lecture on the basic principles of stochastics , he said . |
| 11 | Well , in my book nothing comes before football and so I gave them a simple ultimatum : ‘ Make your choice . |
| 12 | There were a lot of young drunks staggering about , too — most at that noisy and unattractive stage where they might want to be your pal or pick a fight or just throw up on you , so I gave them a wide berth . |
| 13 | I gave them a three-minute start then Bogartishly gunned my heap . |
| 14 | I was scared of them but I was n't going to let them get away so I gave them a good run for their money . |
| 15 | I gave them a good show , with my writhings and moanings . |
| 16 | Well he said on that tape , I gave them a fat cheque of six thousand pounds . |
| 17 | She has got in ( and out of ) problems with drugs , alcohol and a quasi-religious cult : ’ I was brainwashed and I gave them an enormous amount of money , ’ she says with a shrug . |
| 18 | Altogether , I did them a good turn . |
| 19 | I have them the undisputed champions of they 're idiots . |
| 20 | Then I , for a few minutes , we 've got only fifteen minutes so , about twelve to fifteen minutes , and I explain them the historical aspects . |
| 21 | I think erm I think is quite fair maybe if concessions could be raised to one fifty or two pounds but overall I think that people who can afford it spend such a lot of money on the raffle and we therefore give raffle tickets to those who can afford it could jealousy and on the raffle generally about a hundred pounds is made and if there , if there was more charge for tickets , people might not give so much for the raffles and also if you give but if you charge them a nominal sum and then shove other things at them on their options they might be more willing to give to optional choices like a raffle . |
| 22 | Would you give them a key position of accountability in your team ? |
| 23 | Can you give them a precise definition ? |
| 24 | ILL-MANNERED Tories booed , hissed and slow-handclapped Brighton 's Labour mayor as she told them the hard facts of life in Major 's Britain . |
| 25 | She showed them the small lake in its ring of reeds , took them to the first slopes of the mountain , rigged up a fishing rod for Michael and took him to the part of the lake she used to fish as a girl , and soon he was shouting out in glee as he missed the ravenous little perch or swung them out over his head on to the bank . |
| 26 | It 's funny you know , if you give them a long name |
| 27 | It 's easy when you become attached to birds to think of them in human terms , particularly if you give them a human name . |
| 28 | So he leaves them in a room where the locks open if you give them a threatening look . ’ |
| 29 | The Geophagus will tolerate London tap , but the Crenicara filamentosa and the Rams are doomed unless you give them the right conditions . |
| 30 | The sort of stuff that you get in in y'know sort of everyday gossip between friends about y'know when people talk about each- other , oh I think he 's a bit er I think he 's a bit camp , or I think he probably is but erm yeah yeah all that kind of thing yeah erm is is like the the informal repertoire , the informal repertoire that you do between friends erm , between people to whom it sort of y'know it 's not very important if you give them the wrong impression sort of thing . |