Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | Whereas the Third Republic did set out to improve the aesthetic education of these citizens , the modern welfare State offers them the bread and circuses of culture as spectacle and entertainment . |
2 | It 's wrong , Mr Deputy Speaker , if they 're living in this country erm on a semi-permanent basis and happen to have been here last October they 'll have a vote so will any everybody else who 's a citizen of the European union , so will peers of the realm who happen to be living elsewhere whether they 're in this country or outside this country under these regulations and previous regulations , have a vote in the European elections and I think it 's wholly wrong that erm citizens of other European countries namely France because that 's the one and it 's remarkable is it not that France is the one that 's gon na be the cause of this whole edifice collapsing if we do n't submit to their extra demands but citizens of France who are citizens living in their colonies , as I 've said in South America , the West Indies and the Pacific , will have a vote in the European elections on June the ninth and yet we have got citizens for whom we are responsible for in this house , we can not shirk it onto anyone else , we deny them the responsibility and I think it 's about time the house addressed this matter . |
3 | Bring me the duvet and let's have a look at it . |
4 | Most of the people I went with took mountain bikes and they envied me the Pioneer as I sped along with far less effort that they had to use . |
5 | A couple of hundred years ago two Jesuit missionaries trying to find their way back to the Orinoco stumble across them , get them to build a raft and then pole the two Godmen several hundred miles south while the said Godmen preach them the Gospel and try to get them to wear Levis . |
6 | I have not done anything to earn it , but God has given me the Spirit and accepted me into his family ; and he means me to know that I belong . ’ |
7 | She could easily have given me the push after her dad died , and taken on somebody … well , more presentable , like . ’ |
8 | After Mr Brocklehurst had given me the book and left , I felt I had to speak . |
9 | The arrival of Deacon Billingsley should have given me the satisfaction that my telephone call had been treated seriously , but I sensed this policeman was not going to offer me any satisfaction at all . |
10 | I had given them the idea that maybe they would become torturers . ’ |
11 | We must also recognise that we have not given them the support and management guidance on practical recruitment that they , as volunteers , need . |
12 | Those in the agricultural contracting business who had attended said that ATB courses had given them the confidence and skill to undertake these jobs . |
13 | Ordering fresh coffee from the waitress who came to take my order , he passed me the Guardian and picked up the Sun . |
14 | ‘ Yeah , they send me the stuff before it 's published and I try to proof read it as well as I can . |
15 | If we can write back to somebody , or send them the CD or shirt they want , we will almost certainly have them for life . |
16 | send them the bill and we 'll send them the goods . |
17 | In 1238 Alexander III 's father promised me the crown but then he married again and begat Alexander , the third of that name , and the up was dashed from my lips . |
18 | When thou gavest them the rod and |
19 | when Mummy and Daddy went to Edinburgh last week , what two did we buy you the tyrannosaurus and the stegosaurus ? |
20 | Judgement means that the court agrees that your debtor owes you the money as stated on the judgement which is normally your debt , the interest and some costs . |
21 | You keep in the channel he say you the ground and that was the truth too . |
22 | They dogged him the length and breadth of the country , wherever the small troupe of players appeared . |
23 | At this first meeting I expressed appreciation at their continuing confidence in me ; undertook to mediate ( this time unpaid ) ; and also to involve the services of John Montgomerie , whose clear-headed , quiet wisdom had earned him the respect and confidence of everyone he had dealt with . |
24 | 's scientific knowledge , and uncompromising standards and principles have earned him the respect and admiration of any who worked with , or even against him . |
25 | 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 |
26 | We told them the truth and as usual when a panic was over they apologized but warned that we must be patient . |
27 | You 've got to give them a very specific task to do and give them the support and the materials to do it with and make sure it happens so that when they turn up at 3 o ’ clock , it 's set up to go . |
28 | For instance , if father has lost his job , whispered conversations about money worries , which break off as soon as children come near , may give them the idea that a terrible disaster is about to strike , or even that they are too insignificant to be taken into their parents ' confidence . |
29 | During the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries tenants throughout the realm had found that custom did not always give them the protection that they believed they had . |
30 | The council tax will treat widows unfairly in the same way , because it does not give them the discount that they deserve . |