Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] them [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we were paying them a salary then of course it 's up to us whether we have them at sitting at home doing nothing , they would n't they 'd soon get bored with it . |
| 2 | Well in the Midland Bank and they were wearing them the last time you were there . |
| 3 | THE campaigners who took their seasonal message to the banks yesterday were doing them a favour . |
| 4 | According to estimates from the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) and local Red Cross committees , some 2,500,000 people from the former Yugoslavia were displaced by the end of July , and some 10,000 people from Bosnia were joining them every day . |
| 5 | No , I thought she were giving them a pound and then taking change off them , she were getting change off them or summat were n't she . |
| 6 | Who do you think was making the audience laugh while you were giving them the full force of your personality ? |
| 7 | After Big Bang , private clients discovered that stockbrokers were offering them an increasingly impersonal service . |
| 8 | I just wan na find out who was writing them the letters and then I can finish . |
| 9 | ‘ The decision was to give them a lot of freedom , letting them take the pictures they liked so long as their interpretations were true to the general concept . |
| 10 | The object was to give them a sense of purpose and once they were harnessed to that proposition , they policed themselves , so to speak . |
| 11 | Hitherto , Blackpool 's aim had been to crush-load its trams to bursting-point , now the object was to give them a comfortable ride for their money . |
| 12 | Sharing photographs was to him an act of intimacy ; to show someone a photograph you took was to give them a ‘ deeper insight into you as well as what you discerned ’ . |
| 13 | I was teaching them the fine art of drinking Tequila Slammers , one of the fastest ways of getting spifflicated known to man . |
| 14 | and one of them was doing them a halfpenny cheaper ! |
| 15 | I recently asked Lord King of British Airways about his decision to buy Boeing aircraft and United States General Electric aero engines — not only that , but the fact that he was giving them a foothold in Britain at the expense of Rolls-Royce . |
| 16 | Those , mainly Conservative councils , that were spending below the standard spending levels were tempted to spend more and gain more grant ; those that were spending so much that government was giving them no grant could suffer no more penalties ; and all kinds of ingenious methods were used to avoid the penalties through creative accounting . |
| 17 | On that morning I was giving them the latest news of Nigel . |
| 18 | My own advertising was giving them the the service and the quality . |
| 19 | You had to go to such trouble to persuade the subject to accept the poison and when ( or rather , in his case if ) you managed it , your very intimacy made it all too clear to everyone that you were the one who was slipping them the doctored crumble , the dodgy spaghetti bolognese or the potato salad unusually rich in mineral salts . |
| 20 | In the early stages it was finding them a deal , or moving them to the next level up . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ He said he was making them an offer they could n't accept . |
| 22 | The prescription was to offer them no reason for distinguishing between employers who , as custodians for the State , managed those centre-pieces of Socialist attainment , the nationalised industries ; and those who managed privately owned industries . |
| 23 | She was telling them a story , and they were sitting on either side of her on the sofa with their mouths hanging slightly open , Gawain meditatively fingering a lock of her long , dark hair , Damian staring at her and absently scratching his balls . |