Example sentences of "and [verb] them [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We sat them down and gave them a drink and asked them the usual stuff . |
| 2 | In one act at the exhibition hangar gave NAM ‘ back ’ its workshop , enabling the restoration of Anson C.19 VL348 to come on apace ; it allowed several of their exhibits the luxury of a controlled environment ; gave the Museum an ‘ all weather ’ visitor capability and made them a suitable location for the RAF Museum to loan them their Airspeed Oxford and North American Harvard — see the August issue . |
| 3 | Herefordshire Friends of the Earth have looked into the Green Cone Scheme … and given them a guarded welcome : |
| 4 | To make Christmas a truly memorable occasion for you and your guests , I 've taken some of the traditional dishes and given them an exciting twist . |
| 5 | The waiter brought two tall glasses and filled them a good way up with Courvoisier . |
| 6 | But they met anyway , in part because in their early childhood one or other of their parents , usually but not always the father , had taken them aside and told them a great responsibility would fall to them : the carrying forward of a hermetically protected family secret , and in part because the Society looked after its own . |
| 7 | I 'll just pop in and give them a good scare . |
| 8 | The prospects may therefore be good for a long-term strategy which aims at both restricting the scale of most operating units and granting them a reasonable degree of operational autonomy in order to make participative democracy a feasible proposition , while developing further the economies of administration , co-ordination , etc. which are at present realised by large-scale enterprises . |
| 9 | He treated his established artists as professional associates , entering into legal contracts and paying them a regular income in advance against sales . |
| 10 | Privately Captain Simcox hoped the IRA would be a match for the Tans — well , perhaps that was expecting too much — but it would be something if they could put some manners on them and give them a bloody nose now and again . |
| 11 | I have met women who epitomize the ‘ good mother ’ ; they genuinely love and care for their children and give them a great deal of attention , playing with them and guiding them in a way that most of us feel we can never emulate . |
| 12 | ONCE the planning is done we must meet with Parish and County Councils and give them a complete briefing — BEFORE we approach residents . |
| 13 | To break contact , move your hands close together again , slide them away and give them a good shake to remove any tingling ( or even tension ) picked up from your partner . |
| 14 | Do this the day before you intend to fish , and give them a good shake every time you walk past them . |
| 15 | The cleverness was in using the wealth of old prints lying around ignored and simplifying them to make them fresher and give them a contemporary feel . |
| 16 | ‘ They are such good supporters , we decided to make them an introductory offer on the new wallpaper and give them a helping hand to put it up , ’ said Boro marketing manager Mitch Hatfield . |
| 17 | The conference was also told that as an alternative to the expense of sending officers to university , it was proposed to ‘ direct officers to research a particular problem … and give them a short period to carry out intensive research ’ . |
| 18 | Sinn Fein spokesman Martin McGuinness said the party would discuss the letter from the church leaders and give them a considered response in the near future . |
| 19 | A recent development in the USA and the UK has been the attempt to make libraries more visible and give them a national identity , by creating national library symbols or logos . |
| 20 | We shall treat them as a special type of word and give them the following rule : when a pair of prefix-plus-stem words exists , both members of which are spelt identically , one of which is a verb and the other is either a noun or an adjective , the stress will be placed on the second syllable of the verb but on the first syllable of the noun or adjective . |
| 21 | okay , again I mean these are things that talk about confirmation I mean quite honestly I 'm I 'd be quite happy if we had offices where people talk to each other ninety per cent of the time rather than send memos and faxes to each other , and on the whole we are really talking about inside the office with the people who we work with I mean obviously clients as well trying to find something different , we tend tend to find that it 's very very easy sometimes to make a phone call it 's much easier to make a phone call and to talk to that person and give them the personal touch . |
| 22 | So , ideally , we need to forecast changes in demand for personnel , particularly highly trained professional personnel , in order to have time to develop and staff more training institutions — medical schools , professional social work departments and so on — and then to recruit suitable trainees and give them the necessary education and training before we try to implement a major change in policy . |
| 23 | He did not accomplish much , beyond making it clear to the owners that , in return for their agreement to a national minimum , he would abandon Samuel and give them the eight-hour day ; but he was thought to have acquitted himself well . |
| 24 | So can you see it is vital that all of you keep your circulation going right and a good idea is to start it in bed so that before you get out and put weight on your limbs And the same with the rest of your body get your circulation going , get the joints doing a bit of movement and before you get up and give them the added job of bearing your weight . |
| 25 | French aplomb was to the fore as Auguste handed the crab to them along with the hook , raised his new Panama hat and bade them a courteous farewell . |
| 26 | The irregularity of his semi-bigamous relationship with Ælfgifu of Northampton ( see Chapter 4 ) and levy of £82,500 in 1018 did not fulfil the Christian king 's duty to tax his people lightly and set them a good example , and in the early years of the reign many churchmen doubtless feared the worst . |
| 27 | I agree with all the right hon. and hon. Members who said — I think that almost all who have spoken so far made this point — that it is very important to give Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland the prospect of joining the Community at least by the end of the decade , and to give them every possible assistance in meeting the economic and political conditions for membership as soon as possible . |
| 28 | The primary purpose is to express concern for the individual involved and to give them a listening ear . |
| 29 | The aim is to reduce the ranks of the young unemployed who now account for more than half the nation 's two million jobless and to give them an added skill which will help them find work when the training is over . |
| 30 | That was when they all realized acting like this was only playing into the hands of the authorities and giving them a real basis for enforcing their petty laws . |