Example sentences of "[to-vb] they the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Someone in the audience has asked me to greet them the way the chimpanzees greet each other in the wild at Gombe , ’ Jane Goodall began . |
| 2 | The tiny Regency houses had no doubt been listed to spare them the attentions of developers ; from the state of the paving stones and the grass-studded cracks in the roadway , it seemed that the town council too had passed them by . |
| 3 | Bann face Garvey at Blaris on Wednesday night ( 8pm ) and Holywood at Olympia next Saturday , needing two outright wins to secure them the honours . |
| 4 | When wicked women called Charlottes came to tempt them the hermits cast off all their clothes and rolled naked in the patch of nettles behind the pigsty . |
| 5 | With no television to distract them the family formed their own orchestra , and often visited jails for services and concerts . |
| 6 | in order to get them , in order to get them to come , surely you 've got to sell them the idea that they 're going to get something useful out of it |
| 7 | The Act emphasises the crucial importance of support for those carers , and without strategies to empower them the Act can not work . |
| 8 | Their three tries , all unconverted , looked to have been enough to win them the game . |
| 9 | Are these the same fans who at the start of the season boasted a five-man strike force which was going to win them the League ? |
| 10 | To escape them the king , at the suit of Sir Allen Apsley , Victualler of the Navy , in 1629 granted the Forest of Galtres to his creditors in fee-farm , in consideration of a fine of £20,000 . |
| 11 | To help them the government of the EEC , in Brussels , fixes the lowest , or minimum , price for each product each year . |
| 12 | Their views should be sought on the issues to be raised prior to a case conference to afford them the opportunity to seek advice and prepare their representations . |
| 13 | ‘ The beauty and interesting nature of this little bird ’ , Gould wrote , ‘ naturally made me anxious to bring home living examples ; I accordingly captured about twenty fully fledged birds , and kept them alive for some time ; but the difficulties necessarily attendant upon travelling in a new country rendering it impracticable to afford them the attention they required , I regret to say the whole were lost . ’ |
| 14 | He indicated that , without specific application to children 's hearings , the nature of the children 's hearings system ‘ leaves [ it ] outside the benefit of this Bill ’ , and he added : ‘ It would be wrong to deny them the benefit of the Bill when , if they had committed serious offences and appeared before the courts , they would have had its protection . ’ |
| 15 | Actors who train and go to drama school are usually on grants from local education authorities and to deny them the chance to join the profession — or at least compete properly — is ridiculous . |
| 16 | Economic growth in the open world market economy has been so great that few governments are now in strong enough control over their civil societies to be able to deny them the chance to participate in this wealth-creating system . |
| 17 | We must have often seemed to deny them the obedience and ‘ proper respect ’ demanded by the institution , for we obviously did not emulate their style and in effect were a vision of impurity existing right inside the body of the organization . |
| 18 | So there will be a slight improvement on that position but erm I do feel that we have to continue to do them the costume plays we ca n't just say oh we do n't make a profit on it , we ca n't do it , I think that would be a very shortsighted erm philosophy . |
| 19 | When the studios were built , I wanted to record some of the songs I knew when I was young and I wanted to record them the way I wanted to hear them . |
| 20 | If for some reason it is impossible for you to give them the help in the house they need , a Home Help can be provided by the local authority social services department . |
| 21 | I had to give them the keys . |
| 22 | But the men from the Midlands had enjoyed themselves so well , they decided the engraved glass trophy should stay in Scotland to give them the excuse to come back and play for it again ! |
| 23 | To give them the benefit of the doubt , this may well be necessitated by their unique position , but at times it appears alarmingly like arrogant behaviour . |
| 24 | When people seem to be falling down , I like to give them the opportunity to right themselves . |
| 25 | We launched this draw not only to encourage more people to enjoy ‘ old York ’ , but also to give them the opportunity to experience the excitement of New York . ’ |
| 26 | We made a team to give them the opportunity to work together … to give them the respect … to give them the idea that they could be in the top 50 , not by talking but by working together . |
| 27 | Thus the expansion of larger manufacturing firms was designed to give them the opportunity to expand output with protection from fluctuations in demand given by avoiding any excessive accumulation of fixed costs . |
| 28 | separate reports of the views of each of the groups to give them the opportunity for further comment ; |
| 29 | We want to give them the opportunity to put their own language into practice in a genuine effort to communicate . |
| 30 | If teachers do not believe that their pupils are able to be more responsible for their own mathematical learning , then they are not likely to give them the opportunity to be so . |