Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tiny Regency houses had no doubt been listed to spare them the attentions of developers ; from the state of the paving stones and the grass-studded cracks in the roadway , it seemed that the town council too had passed them by . |
| 2 | I am not surprised that the Minister declines to give us the figures because is not the truth that about 60 to 80 times the amount of money is being spent per capita on students at the city technology college than is spent on pupils at secondary schools in Sunderland and surrounding boroughs ? |
| 3 | The Valor Revue is designed to give you the features you need for perfect results in the kitchen . |
| 4 | The influence of the ‘ parent ’ is very strong — parents tried to teach you the concepts of life . |
| 5 | where a special area in one housing estate has been set aside for problem families , where they are given daily supervision combined with training and instruction designed to teach them the elements of home craft and mothercraft so that in due course , when they have proved they can manage their affairs , domestic , financial or otherwise , they can return to a better house in a more desirable neighbourhood . |
| 6 | I 'll need to show you the ropes . ’ |
| 7 | When wicked women called Charlottes came to tempt them the hermits cast off all their clothes and rolled naked in the patch of nettles behind the pigsty . |
| 8 | And we hope to bring you the results of the elctions in our late eveing update after news at ten . |
| 9 | Those two were going to give her the creeps if she really had to take them all the way to Titan . |
| 10 | But it was n't what I was asking , so I 'm going to give you the points , but it 's absolutely true . |
| 11 | However , I am going to tell you the names of the cards you are now thinking about . |
| 12 | We would like to tell you the procedures we will follow in the unlikely event of such a fire giving off toxic fumes . |
| 13 | He began to tell me the difficulties of his life at home , and finally he told me that he had tried more than once to find a home with another brother or sister , but they had persuaded him to return to Cis and Elfed . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , but you do n't have to give me the oranges . |
| 15 | So what do you do , do you have to give them the tapes and shit ? |
| 16 | Well obviously I 'll have to give you the illustrations . |
| 17 | This did indeed occur , for when she went to embrace him the bodies of the lover and the beloved merged forever , becoming a double-sexed being — a youth with the breasts of a woman . |
| 18 | The photographer offered to sell him the negatives for £30 at the time but he did n't have the money . |
| 19 | He is the first historian who purports to give us the texts which Lanfranc had quoted in 1072- and , of course , they now contain the forged additions . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's a message from Bill , ’ she said , then proceeded to give him the details . |
| 21 | He came and sat down beside me and offered to show me the sights . |
| 22 | The butcher , who was gentle and warmhearted in spite of the cruel bloodstains on his boater , loaded her basket free with bones for the dog and offered to show her the mysteries of his store room where , shaggy with frost , the sides of meat hung in refrigerated darkness . |
| 23 | An experienced armourer came into the hangar with a group of new armourers and proceeded to show them the wonders of the Washington . |
| 24 | All these functions can be combined to give you the advantages of traditional cooking in less than half the normal cooking time . |
| 25 | When Ken called by later , he told me that he 'd been commanded to show me the sights the following afternoon . |
| 26 | I had to give them the keys . |
| 27 | He had kept his word — although she knew there had been times when he was sorely tempted to ask her the questions that must have played on his mind . |
| 28 | THE world 's stock exchanges had a turbulent week as politics and economics conspired to give them the jitters . |
| 29 | Faced with more than a thousand scientific papers , the author has chosen to give us the highlights : the measurement of the precise position of the source 3C273 by lunar occultation , which led to the discovery of the quasars ; the fine work on mapping the southern sky ; the detection of the presence of interstellar molecules ; and the search for pulsars . |
| 30 | A brilliant officer with more than twenty commendations , he had grown to believe he was omnipotent ; and when Mathews refused to tell him the names of his accomplices , saying it was more than his life was worth , Drury , obsessed with clearing up another case , offered him a deal : make a statement that three men whose names I will give you were your accomplices , testify against them in the witness-box , and in return no charges will be brought against you , and we 'll come to an arrangement about the reward money offered by the Post Office . |