Example sentences of "it [verb] them [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | That is what will keep us head and shoulders above any of our competitors even if they do wave a BS5750 certificate around as though it guarantees them a divine right to business success . |
| 2 | Now I understand that top level sailors welcome the one-design nature of the Grand Prix , not only because it is potentially inexpensive , but because it offers them an even platform from which to display their skills . |
| 3 | And it brought them a great try that , in the final analysis , won them the match . |
| 4 | However , it took them a long time to see an ally in the Poles . |
| 5 | THE drivers who moaned about the parking problems at the Genesis concert at Knebworth because it took them a long time to get out make me mad . |
| 6 | it took them a long time to begin with when he started . |
| 7 | It took them I ca n't remember how many hours but it took them a long time . |
| 8 | It took them a little while to pluck up courage to go along and when they did , they chose the Norfolk Gliding Club at Longstratton near Norwich . |
| 9 | Shortly afterwards PW held a meeting with the BCCI directors during which it gave them a comprehensive account of the frauds and malpractices . |
| 10 | The Act was welcomed by many old people because it gave them a regular income free from the taint of poor relief ; though many , rightly , criticized it for giving ‘ too little too late in life ’ , that little was more than had been given before . |
| 11 | It gave them a new sense of opening opportunity , a new reason for raising standards and expectations , new cause to doubt the wisdom of a system which excluded many children from the chance of a full academic education from the age of eleven , and a new hope . |
| 12 | Bacteriologists immediately recognised that it gave them a unique opportunity to study the evolutionary processes governing bacterial resistance — as a synthetic antibiotic it could not be influenced by preexisting resistance genes . |
| 13 | The ten-point margin reflected the Police 's overall superiority and it gave them a deserved triumph in only their second appearance in the final . |
| 14 | It was sweet revenge for Flintshire , who lost out in the corresponding fixture last season , and it gave them the perfect start as they bid to recapture the North Wales county crown . |
| 15 | Robin Barton had been asking his dad , Bernard , about setting up a tropical aquarium , and when they saw PFK 's beginners ' series it gave them the final incentive to begin . |
| 16 | It gives them a much-needed sense of security , ’ he says . |
| 17 | It gives them a good insight into the world of business , ’ explained shift manager Peter Ketchell , who serves as vice-chairman of the organising committee alongside colleague the site 's schools liaison officer . |
| 18 | It gives them a new opportunity to refocus priorities for improving the public health . |
| 19 | Both sexes like the idea that women pretend , men because it confirms their suspicion that their partners are basically frigid and devious manipulators , women because it gives them a delicious sense of power to think that the delirium which men fondly ascribe to their virile prowess is no more than a hollow civility , like laughing at Grandpa 's jokes . |
| 20 | Perhaps it gives them a false sense of security . |
| 21 | Tenderness is just something that women like because it gives them the upper hand . |
| 22 | It gives them the upper hand . |
| 23 | I paused before replying to her , because if you pause before replying to people it gives them the foolish idea that you 've actually listened to what they 've said , and I said of course darling . |
| 24 | Never ever wanted a puppy because it makes them a captive person |