Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] they [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally we have had a number of people who have not renewed this year , and I am enclosing a list of those to all Teachers who are involved — please , if these people do return to your class this term give them a gentle reminder . |
| 2 | She give us all these , like diseases and we had to learn parrot learn them the definition for them cos she were giving us a test on them . |
| 3 | But , at the same time , several aspects of the Newmanites ' campaign make them a uniquely threatening phenomenon on the political scene . |
| 4 | ‘ The lean-line droopiness of Michael Crawford and Oliver Reed 's big-drum bravado make them the best double act since Laurel and Hardy , ’ wrote Alexander Walker in the London Evening Standard . |
| 5 | In its internal history for the Joint Chiefs of Staff , their secretariat give them the credit ( or blame ) for taking the first step in shifting the battle for Asia from China to Southeast Asia . |
| 6 | Will the Conservative promise to abolish education bring them a landslide victory ? |
| 7 | May the good Lord send them a hopeful sign ! |
| 8 | Government give them a grant ( i.e. ‘ new ’ industries ) , cut the rent and all the rest and once the period of , you know , free rent period , free taxes … they move out . |
| 9 | Failing that , will he explain to my unemployed constituents why the Government consider them a ’ price worth paying ’ ? |
| 10 | And Gee ( 1975 : 311 ) argues that whereas in I helped them carry the load " I take part in the carrying " , this is not necessarily implied by the sentence with to , where " I need not actually have done any carrying " , as shown by : ( 16a ) I helped them to carry the load by having my secretary get them a cart . |
| 11 | ( 16b ) * I helped them carry the load by having my secretary get them a cart . |
| 12 | In Yugoslavia 's biggest postwar strike , nearly 700,000 workers in Serbia 's textile , leather and metallurgical industries stopped work on April 16 to demand that the Serbian government pay them the guaranteed minimum monthly wage , backdated to January , and that it abolish new taxes introduced at the end of 1990 . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , Falkirk will take more than a passing interest in two Premier Division matches tonight , and hoping that the Old Firm do them a favour by beating fellow strugglers Dundee and Motherwell . |
| 14 | Beyond this there is little agreement , and the women 's weekly magazines , for example , have argued strongly in recent years that their particular editorial qualities and high coverage of a female audience make them a superior medium even to TV for many products in , particularly , food and toiletry fields . |
| 15 | Should not we as a practical matter offer them the facilities of Burghfield and Dounreay to do something about the beryllium and other toxic compounds which are doubtless leaking from ill-maintained equipment ? |
| 16 | On the one hand , does the integration of groups into the bureaucratic structure make them a threat to traditional democratic norms of accountable government ? |
| 17 | Policemen of my generation call them the funnies . ’ |
| 18 | Since burning their fingers on 100% lending that flared into bad debt , lenders have been insisting that customers borrowing more than 70% to 75% of property value make them a present of an insurance policy against default . |
| 19 | However , their low cost ( Notes retails at around £400 , WFWG at £149 ) and ease of implementation make them a viable proposition for the small company , and will probably result in their becoming much more influential in the long term . |
| 20 | With this business of embargo , Liz , I 'll agree with that but the , the off the record , one wants to get the local people very well and you do develop this , this trust , and if you can in fact give them a lot of scope that you know what to use . |