Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] they [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now hundreds of other unhappy youngsters will be encouraged to demand that the courts grant them a similar divorce , the girl 's solicitor warned yesterday . |
| 2 | If you have time , pipe a little flavoured butter around the tartlets to give them a professional finish . |
| 3 | They claimed that drinking the tea gave them an intense , trip-like experience . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | The pretence that statutes merely declared existing law was dropped ; they occupied areas of national life which before they had only occasionally entered ; they became far more precisely drafted and the judges interpreted them a good deal less freely ; they were , by the reign of Elizabeth , the outcome of a definite and recognized procedure . |
| 7 | The bachelor gave them an angry look . |
| 8 | They really do stand a better chance being left there to their own devices for the parents to feed them the right diet than being picked up and brought here . |
| 9 | These attractive little bagrid are active during the day making them a useful addition to the mature , well-established and maintained planted community tank . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 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 rabbits gave them a wide berth and came through by another gap farther up , close to the gnarled trunk of an old crabapple tree . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Like with the names do they the personal ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | GHI verdict : Our testers , heavy with cold , found that the vaporiser gave them a good night 's sleep ; even their husbands/partners slept better . |
| 19 | Well as I say , the police stopped them the other morning and one of the lads had a chat with the driver and all this and he carried on . |
| 20 | The British team looked quite forlorn in comparison by the time the fighters got on the mat , the Japanese conceding them a small corner . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The high proportion of carbohydrates in the leaves makes them an ideal target for creatures that bite and suck out the energy rich sap . |
| 23 | And the earth gives them the O.K. |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |