Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] they [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In December 1757 he tried to excuse himself ‘ as my abode is at such distance from the place where the Royal Society hold their weekly meetings as to render it not only inconvenient , but unsafe for me to attend them in the winter season. , A month later Ellis countered with , ‘ I scarce think it possible that Mr. Miller should have no one friend in the Society to send him word and , indeed , I had told Rivington to tell Miller I would be glad to discuss the matter at Fulham , and Miller ignored it . ’ |
| 2 | He presented himself as organizer of reciprocities ( ‘ Am I to ask them for a dinar when you are sick ? ’ ) rather than as lineage banker : he noticeably did not raise issues of authority . |
| 3 | Now look at that I want you to see them in the bath , they enjoy themselves like children . |
| 4 | They are not prescriptive and it is open to you to implement them in the way that best suits your firm . |
| 5 | It is up to you to put them in the mood you want . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm sure what I say is quite unnecessary — but they might , you know , sympathetic looks and so on — I 'd like you to keep them at a distance . ’ |
| 7 | And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you to inherit them for a possession ; they shall be your bondmen forever . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It was very good of you to take them to the sea . |
| 9 | You want me to put them in the bag ? |
| 10 | The sculptor is encouraged to deepen the relief to make the figures stand out better ; and this in turn , making them more like statues , encourages him to treat them in the convention of free sculpture rather than that of drawing . |
| 11 | He used to listen to American Football on the American Forces Network and was so enthused with it that he wrote to the American Embassy , who invited him to visit them for the day . |
| 12 | One or two of the gentle , giant horses snorted in fear , but they allowed her to lead them to the safety of the barn , while Seb was struggling to maintain control of the hunters . |
| 13 | They drank their coffee and he took both cups and leaned across her to put them on the settle . |
| 14 | Hashim Ciftci told the Today newspaper that he shot cameraman Nick della Casa and his assistant Charles Maxwell after they hired him to guide them on an expedition to film fighting between the Iraqi army and Kurdish rebels in the mountains of northern Iraq . |
| 15 | So an important strategy for helping the learner is occasionally to list , at the end of the piece or work you are marking , all the errors the pupil has made , writing them correctly and clearly , and to ask him to study them in the way the Basic spelling strategy " B " suggests ( page 11 ) . |
| 16 | so I told him to keep them on the back of that door . |
| 17 | for her to have them in the house . |
| 18 | In Gregory 's account , Chlodomer , before setting off to Vézeronce , asked his half-brother , Theuderic , to accompany him , and the latter agreed ; but when Childebert and Chlothar asked him to join them at the time of their later campaign against the Burgundian kingdom , he refused . |
| 19 | Several fellow players asked her to take them for a ride as pillion passengers but that treat seemed to be reserved for members of her regular entourage , though I suppose it could be argued she took Steffi Graf for a ride in the semi-finals . |
| 20 | If the Hon. Gentleman has suggestions , I advise him to bring them to the attention of the Accommodation and Administration Sub-Committee . |
| 21 | He therefore called on the other three republics to accept Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union in this regard , and to delegate it to represent them over the START treaty and future negotiations . |
| 22 | Then you slide the inner wall across and use it to pin them against the side of the cage so they ca n't move or fight . |
| 23 | They bound and gagged two children and then forced one of them to take them to the money . |
| 24 | Kenneth adores him and commandeered him the moment he arrived , allowing me to join them on a walk after yet another edible meal ( any more of this clever cooking and you 'll ruin your reputation ) . |
| 25 | Many Heads have expressed to me their appreciation of what the lu Labour Group has done for them to rescue them from the plight that the Tories imposed on them . |
| 26 | As she notes , ‘ economic rationality led in neighbouring villages to the creation of rules of cultivation which sufficiently resembled one another for us to classify them as a system ’ ( p. 273 ) . |
| 27 | They 've asked us to provide them with the finance one container , that 's five hundred pound , plus two hundred pound transport , which will be matched by the community council if we do it . |
| 28 | The banks want us to pay them for the privilege of making their money from our money . |
| 29 | Will my hon. Friend pass to the National Audit Office the thanks of Parliament for its series of reports and ask whether it would be possible for us to have them at a time when Parliament is likely to be sitting rather than at one minute to midnight for the benefit of the press ? |
| 30 | Far from being taken back , they were delighted by our sudden arrival , and unhesitatingly encouraged us to join them in the water . |