Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] they the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Diana wants to give them the sort of holiday she believes young boys should have … not shut up in old castles . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The ship 's doctor tried to give them the kiss of life but they could not be revived . |
| 4 | We want to give them the opportunity to put their own language into practice in a genuine effort to communicate . |
| 5 | They want to give them the confidence to grow into caring and hard-working adults who will grasp opportunities and take their responsibilities seriously . |
| 6 | It 's unfair for another reason : most of the walkers , climbers and cavers that come to the Dales , the Lakes and the mountains come because they love them , because they respect them and care for them and want to keep them the way they are so that the people of the future can enjoy the wildness and the greatness of the earth . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | Well , he was going to give them the chance , was n't he ? |
| 10 | I 'm not going to give them the chance to say I ca n't foster any more , I know when I , I know now when I 'm going to stop fostering . |
| 11 | I was not , " he tapped the desk , " going to give them the satisfaction , you see ? " |
| 12 | Oh , I wish I had a two-pound coin for every toilet I 've burst into , hissing at myself : ‘ Stoppit will you for Godsake you 're forty years old will you stoppit STOPPIT GROW UP YOU BERK I am not crying I am NOT GOING to give them the satisfaction — waaaagh ! ! ’ |
| 13 | We have to be fair , we 've got to give them the compensation . |
| 14 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 15 | You 've got to tell them the truth ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ If you have experienced pros , you have got to show them the respect they deserve . |
| 17 | A SURVEY by the St John Ambulance Brigade came up with the remarkably interesting finding that the man most women would prefer to give them the kiss of life , assuming it was necessary or even if it was n't , would be TV doctor Hilary Jones . |
| 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 people seem to be falling down , I like to give them the opportunity to right themselves . |
| 20 | In one sense , all the genes in a body are ‘ parasitic ’ genes , whether we like to call them the body 's ‘ own , genes or not . |
| 21 | But I 'd like it to have the company address so that people can follow u can follow up our references without us having to give them the address . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Oh I , I think one had to consider erm , I , I 'd have to ask them the size of the room , what , what sort of a room it was , er , it was no use getting the fitting which erm was either far too big for the room in it 's , in it 's physical size |
| 24 | The Catholic Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ) did not co-operate because the assembly failed to offer them the opportunity of power-sharing which they gained in 1973 . |
| 25 | Scrum-half Campbell converted to give them the half-time lead . |
| 26 | And to do it without a lot without a lot of support from the a from the people who actually lived in the flats , although they organized things and got it going , and the people living there did n't seem to be motivated to give them the kind of encouragement erm |
| 27 | John Beck 's unfashionable team have turned the derided ‘ long ball ’ game into something of an art form , but their aerial bombardment of the Wolves goal failed to bring them the victory that would have enhanced their promotion prospects . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They can not just choose to hurt you , you have to give them the chance ( for example by joining in activities like those listed above ) — so do n't ! |
| 30 | We have to give them the ball out wide and let them get at Southend 's back four . ’ |