Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] they [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | United got off to a flyer with Richard Hill giving them a lead after just eight minutes . |
| 2 | He and another left-hander , the more dashing 21-year-old Robert Samuels , provided Jamaica with the batting stability they have so often lacked and captain Courtney Walsh gave them the bowling penetration with a tournament record 36 wickets at 11.30 each that combined to regain the Cup for Jamaica from Barbados , their third success in the last five seasons . |
| 3 | There is a theory that the Syrians favour the perpetuation of the Aoun regime to give them a pretext for keeping an undiminished presence in the country . |
| 4 | There is a theory that the Syrians favour the perpetuation of the Aoun regime to give them a pretext for keeping an undiminished presence in the country . |
| 5 | And Felton 's miscue off Neil Smith offered them a glimmer of hope . |
| 6 | But Dr Jekell gave them a taste of their own medicine and Joey Beauchamp 's trip and Jimmy Magilton 's score rescued a point for Oxford . |
| 7 | And it was joy too for the Ballymena triple of Billy McCandless , Jack Robinson and Roy McCune who had a 19-15 victory over the CYM trio skipped by Alf Keegan to earn them a crack at the strong Portrush triple of Barry Moffett , Jeremy Henry and Ian McClure who had an easy 19-9 win over Alex Beggs , Gary Clarke and Mark Shannon from Clarendon . |
| 8 | Children put out shoes filled with hay and , if they have been good , Saint Nicholas leaves them a present . |
| 9 | Instead Mr Stroud gave them a form to submit to the diocesan chancellor . |
| 10 | It always gave Anne goosebumps , especially when the unidentified male voice answered the girls ' plea for Mr Sandman to bring them a dream with a drawn-out , ever-so-slightly creepy ‘ ye-e-es ? ’ |
| 11 | Samantha led Jacqueline out to buy a paper bag of corn to feed the portly , over-privileged pigeons and Haverford Downs gave them a taste of his ‘ Jottings ’ . |
| 12 | Mrs Lennox found them a pail and a large enamel container . |
| 13 | While United threw away a hatful of chances Luton had two shots on target in the first half and hit the jackpot with one of them as Kerry Hughes got them a goal . |
| 14 | Mrs Bottomley told them the health service had to move with the times and some closures were inevitable . |
| 15 | Hereford battled on … they were down but not out … and gave everything they 'd got … skipper Derek Hall struck them a goal midway through the second half … |
| 16 | New boy , Brian Marwood gave them the lead ; his first goal for the club and it could n't have come at a better time . |
| 17 | To send her two young sons , Mathieu and Laurent , to sleep , Cécile de Brunhoff told them the story of a little elephant who left the forest to discover the town and learn the ways of men , before returning to his own idyllic land of the elephants to be crowned king . |
| 18 | With a two goal lead from the first leg the pressure was off Swindon for once last night as they tackled Wolves at Molineux … and when Nicky Summerbee gave them the lead they could afford to sit back and cruise to the third rounds … |
| 19 | St John gave them the letter to read , and then they all looked at each other , smiling rather tiredly . |
| 20 | Ballymena eventually got the equaliser 11 minutes from the end after referee Tommy Deegan awarded them a penalty when Speak was impeded by McGurnaghan . |
| 21 | Town looked beaten … they were staring defeat in the face again but they 're fighting spirit saved them … in the last do or die attack of the match skipper Sean Taylor won them a draw … |
| 22 | Li Yuan studied them a moment , trying to get the key to their relationship — something more than could be gained from the summaries in the file — then returned to the desk and sat , leaving them standing . |
| 23 | Sources told NME Moz offered them the support slot after being ‘ knocked out ’ by a recent performance . |
| 24 | The men were anxious to arrange Mixed Foursomes ‘ to re-awaken interest ’ ( in what is not specified ) , and letters were sent to all previous Lady Members offering them a handicap of L.G.U. plus 6 , or a straight 36 . |
| 25 | An 82nd-minute headed goal by Alex Czerniatynski gave them a draw in the away leg of their Cup Winners ' Cup quarter-final against former European champions Steaua Bucharest . |
| 26 | The Palmyra authorities gave them no assistance . |
| 27 | The group recorded three demo tapes and Gedge made two abortive trips to London to try to persuade John Peel to give them a session . |
| 28 | Boris Anrep , for instance , whom the Berkeleys used to encounter when they stayed with Maud Russell at Mottisfont , gave them the model he painted for the mosaics which were intended for the apse of Westminster Cathedral ( it stands on the chest of drawers in their bedroom ) and Hugh Honour and John Fleming gave them the marble hermaphrodite which reclines on the top of a bookcase in the study . |
| 29 | Dalton Grant gave them a headache by beating Liverpudlian favourite Steve Smith in the high jump , 2.25m to a dismal 2.05m . |
| 30 | Henry VI gave them a court leet in 1451 , which concerned itself largely with the minor social offences common to any medieval town ; poor-quality weaving and leaving dead animals lying about the streets seem to have occurred fairly commonly . |