Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] they the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The third John Booth provided much of the capital for his partners , Samuel and Aaron Walker , when they established the business that eventually made them the leading ironmasters in the North of England .
2 If they want their own snappy one they would , you 're quite right , it 's not necessarily handing them the bad one on a plate just in case they might use it .
3 He explained that children came to Cedars when their own school could not give them the individual help with basic skills which they needed .
4 Arsenal 's mastery of the First Division was already making them the best-loved , best-hated club .
5 So I just gave them the statutory amount per tape
6 Dr Neil — he 's Stair Cochrane 's younger brother — he works for the poor in an East End practice — ’ Her voice almost broke when she said his name , and her mama knew immediately that Sally-Anne was not telling them the whole truth about her East End adventures .
7 The mannikin skipped over to show them the unexpected addition to his ghastly collection .
8 And you just hammer them the poor old cloth workers they 've got used to me now , they had an awful fit at the time , you ca n't do that .
9 Business fliers fly with the airline that will most quickly give them the necessary coupons to go to , say , Hawaii with the family .
10 ‘ I liked your family very much , but you deliberately gave them the wrong impression about me , ’ she said angrily .
11 When we got into the studio , I got Gibson to send a few guitars down for a try-out and I ended up using them the whole way through the album .
12 The champagne reception — at which Kylie began to demonstrate for the first time a new found confidence with both press and public — also gave them the perfect opportunity to milk their golden child 's latest achievement , three UK gold discs for ‘ Kylie ’ the LP , and the singles ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ and ‘ Got To Be Certain ’ .
13 When readers have written in , worried about whether to tell about a secret lover , you 've so often given them the excellent advice : ‘ Keep mum ’ .
14 I mean erm and sometimes of course you ca n't give them the practical help they need , you know ,
15 Someone is sure to ask you how long it takes to knit a jumper , but do n't tell them the exact number of hours and minutes , or they will expect their jumper by tomorrow !
16 Well you could n't find them the other day , you said they were n't there did n't you ?
17 I am there to give them the ultimate challenge and I do .
18 For working-class girls ( unlike middle-class girls , for whom comprehensives potentially offered them the academic education denied to many under the systems of 11 + weighting ) comprehensives probably made little difference .
19 Another well known crossover is the snake cable , where you simply cross the stitches one way , knit a few rows then cross them the other way .
20 He then gives them the following details .
21 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 .
22 Its ears were erect and it was evidently giving them the full attention of sight , smell and hearing .
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