Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But clergy could have other business too : at Rheims , Archbishop Hincmar found them using the leaves of ancient manuscripts to make envelopes " in which to keep the pennies they gained from trade " . |
| 2 | He 's reluctant to stop them handling the lambs altogether . |
| 3 | And there was nothing to connect the nights I shared with Jean-Claude with the afternoons I spent with Émile . |
| 4 | He did n't want everyone to see the marks of his sins . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , the films , which included Hepworth 's Comin ’ Thro ’ the Rye , did nothing to support the claims made for them . |
| 6 | Meeting the demand for veterinary surgeons for the army , while raising the social status of the young profession , did nothing to support the needs of agriculture . |
| 7 | But there 's nothing wrong with challenging people on a personal level and letting them make the choices … ’ |
| 8 | Too often in the past , he said , politicians had been bamboozled by specialists into believing that the problems were so great that the answer was to set up bodies like the UGC and let them make the decisions . |
| 9 | ‘ They are saying to the council that they 've got to listen to how their employees and the public feel , and not to impose the cuts of central government on their workers and expect them to carry the consequences . ’ |
| 10 | I visited a one-man research station of the Cyprus Department of Agriculture who invited me to taste the products of many combinations of variety and soil . |
| 11 | I remember me gathering the hens up that night late oh about ten or eleven o'clock at night and we had our own power you see by that time . |
| 12 | CAN ANYBODY be expected to take the Deputy Director of Wirral Social Services seriously when he suggests that feeding curry to toddlers will help them counteract the evils of racism ? |
| 13 | ‘ Fred lets me make the decisions , an' it was my idea ter sort this back room out . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Then I 'll let you make the decisions that affect all nomes ’ bodies , ’ said Gurder , his voice just one step away from being threatening , ‘ and you 'll let me make the decisions that affect all nomes ’ souls . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'll let me make the cakes ? ’ |
| 16 | While everyone agreed the changes in living standards since the film was made were for the better , there was some nostalgia for farming as it was when they were young . |
| 17 | Everyone agrees the republics need all the parctical help they can get to stop them tearing themselves apart . |
| 18 | And it frightens me seeing the youngsters coming out carrying . |
| 19 | When I got back I had bed rest for a couple of days and then they had me scrubbing the houses and that . |
| 20 | Despite the weather , however , 17 of them braved the elements to play the one round Stableford competition . |
| 21 | Makes me think the things I 'm saying are very clever . |
| 22 | Daniel son of Nicholas of Newcastle , husband of one of the co-heiresses , was appointed by them to perform the duties of Forest warden until he was succeeded in 1226 by Thomas of Stratton , husband of another co-heiress . |
| 23 | As a functioning mechanism a society must somehow distribute its members in social positions and induce them to perform the duties of these positions . |
| 24 | EDF has done everything it can to make all of the French understand how much is at stake and enable them to compare the advantages and drawbacks of the various possible sources of energy . |
| 25 | ‘ Can you arrange for me to see the parents ? ’ |
| 26 | It seemed queer to me to see the windows all dark and the curtains still not drawn … |
| 27 | There was enough light from the sky for me to see the padlocks . |
| 28 | We will ensure that all 14–19 year olds have a personal tutor and careers advice , helping them build the foundations for personal fulfilment and success . |
| 29 | When the settlers got to Virginia , everyone expected the gentlemen of the party to run things , just as in England . |
| 30 | The report concluded that the Fayed brothers , Mohamed and Ali , had ( i ) dishonestly misrepresented their background and wealth to the DTI for the purpose of persuading the Department in 1985 not to refer the acquisition to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( MMC ) ; ( ii ) used their connection with the Sultan of Brunei to enable them to acquire the funds used in the acquisition ; ( iii ) repeated their lies to their advisers , who had accepted at face value what they were told and failed to check its accuracy ; and ( iv ) misrepresented the extent of their business assets to both the DTI and to the Office of Fair Trading . |