Example sentences of "[to-vb] they the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Went to see them the other week |
| 2 | The frictions grew steadily worse , and in an attempt to accommodate them the 1897 Vienna Congress resolved that the party become a federation of six national parties . |
| 3 | they 'd take a piece with them and that was all they had to sustain them the whole day . |
| 4 | The prints spilled on to the carpet and as Sabine bent to retrieve them the young boy 's face seemed to glare directly up at her , challenging and inimical . |
| 5 | We also decided that Mike would have to take every third day off to recover , while Christophe continued to follow the chimps , so that he and Mike would know where to find them the following day . |
| 6 | They really do stand a better chance being left there to their own devices for the parents to feed them the right diet than being picked up and brought here . |
| 7 | But It was enough to win them the whole Challenge . |
| 8 | My mum 'cos it 's so much cheaper to buy them the more . |
| 9 | It is not hard to portray the BR of the eighties Monty Python style with such stupidities as creating a semi-autonomous Cornish Railways with great enthusiasm one year only to abandon them the next as though that were equally great progress . |
| 10 | Scenes are also still hand-coloured in order to give them the classic Disney feel , but developments in automatic colouring systems could well change this before too long . |
| 11 | I am there to give them the ultimate challenge and I do . |
| 12 | ‘ My reward will be to give them the final yellow jersey in Manchester . ’ |
| 13 | All my young ferrets get a similar introduction to give them the necessary experience for bigger operations within major burrow systems . |
| 14 | Runners are more conservative , instead of their heads they look to their shoes to give them the competitive edge . |
| 15 | I went on tour frequently from Simla to most of the main cities of India , speaking to Indian audiences and getting together groups of refugees from Burma to give them the latest news and to encourage them with hopes of victory and return . |
| 16 | The Syrian foreign minister who , after meeting Douglas Hurd , evoked the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 in which the British and the French secretly carved up the Middle East between them ( later using the League of Nations to give them the so-called Mandates as a cover ) , was not making some arcane and irrelevant allusion . |
| 17 | While I am pleased to report that this particular source has not been replaced with high-quality material , suppliers of this and other ‘ green ’ materials should be warned that I am quite prepared to give them the widest publicity they 've ever had if they try fobbing gardeners off with sub-standard goods . |
| 18 | That 's why we aim to empower young people to give them the maximum choice to build their own success . |
| 19 | Yes If it was something like a housewife , if you sold the husband and wife , let's say , a Cover Master or Living Assurance , or the husband 's Health Master , and the wife now wants a Health Master , then nine pound sixty might be enough to give them the maximum benefit . |
| 20 | He took out two large plastic orange cones — the sort you get on motorway hold-ups — and gave them to me , telling me to put them the other side of the bend to slow the traffic coming down . |
| 21 | In return for permission to reside on Henderson , Smiley Ratliff has promised to provide the inhabitants of nearby Pitcairn Island with the use of his proposed airstrip , a launch to ferry them the 90 or so miles between Pitcairn and Henderson . |
| 22 | With such ancient remains , the first need is to accord them the same protection as other ancient monuments . |
| 23 | While money has been used to reward them the intrinsic motivation of working in a harmonious team has been eliminated in many jobs ; for example , checkout operators in a supermarket , process workers in a manufacturing plant . |
| 24 | ’ There was even some guy in Minnesota or Detroit or somewhere who killed a load of people and they started to call them the Lost Boy Murders , but I did n't take too much notice of it all . |
| 25 | Oh yes , oh yes much as they are now and the big horse we used to call them the big horses you know and er shows and that , all , they used to , Willenhall Wakes used to be fine really good , and er that was down in the Lane somewhere there . |
| 26 | Oh yes very much so very much so there always has been , yeah they used to call them the faithful four thousand at one time . |
| 27 | Not long ago geographers were wont to divide it into its most impressive component bodies , and to call them the Seven Seas . |
| 28 | 1 have chosen to call them the Northern and Southern Bands ( Map 3.1 ) . |
| 29 | It can , however , no longer be assumed that that is so , and in any case it is not clear that if a clergyman wishes to stand and electors wish him to represent them the mere fact that the churches do not like the idea has anything to do with matter . |
| 30 | Find out who will be there to wake them the next morning , if you are not on duty . |