Example sentences of "[conj] we [verb] them [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now you could say that was perhaps maintenance , but it 's all been cleaned , it 's been repointed , there are new lanterns , they 've done all the paintwork and they made such a beautiful job of it , it 's really almost for the craftsmanship and the care that we gave them a certificate for that as well . |
| 2 | They have asked that we give them a similar quantity from each department . |
| 3 | After being swamped by people demanding that we give them the freebie SEAL course , we have , after long and difficult nights of deliberation , come to a decision . |
| 4 | We face real threats internationally from pollution , over-population , from famine , from nuclear accidents and from the collapse of an unjust world economic order which means we take more money from the poor than we lend them every year . ’ |
| 5 | Room maids also suggested improving the honeymoon suite , so we gave them a project to look at suitable fabrics and rival hotel suites . |
| 6 | We 're on the same pitch then , so we give them a game and that would apply in the Premier League . ’ |
| 7 | The trouble about that is , it 's now enforced upon us and that 's official target , we have to set priority of fire certificates because we need the money , bluntly , otherwise we have to find it elsewhere , so we give them a priority that they would n't otherwise have . |
| 8 | This new venture seems to hold great promise for the future and we wish them every success . |
| 9 | Sheena and Howard have since moved to Somerset and we wish them every happiness in their new home . |
| 10 | At last the Eastern Bloc nations might have a chance of catching up with the West , and we owe them a debt . |
| 11 | Their varied tasks in the Library have all contributed to its success and we owe them a very real debt of gratitude . |
| 12 | It is fine for many of us , given the privileged lives that we lead ; it is hell for many of our citizens and we owe them a great deal more urgency than is provided by this useful but inadequate measure . |
| 13 | And we give them a murderer to go with it . ’ |
| 14 | We welcome busy people to our home , and we give them a pleasant place to work in . ’ |
| 15 | Erm the blacksmith and we give them a horseshoe nail . |
| 16 | We thought it would be a good idea to give them a chance straight off to have an opinion , and we set them a nice problem , which was that they put a marble into something and another marble comes out thirty seconds later . |
| 17 | In special circumstances we 'll cover some expenses and we pay them a token fee , which a lot of guests donate to charity . |
| 18 | And we send them the replacement , and they let the broken one sit there . |
| 19 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |
| 20 | It does n't matter if we get them the wrong way round it 'll still work out . |
| 21 | ‘ If we afforded them the respect they deserve the respect they are given in other European countries then the standard of service we would get would be a lot higher , ’ says the 55-year-old Swiss-trained baker . |
| 22 | The government could pick up anyone they wanted and prosecute at their leisure , if we made them a present of all those names . |
| 23 | It is possible to live with wild animals , if we give them a little space . |
| 24 | But look at it this way ; if we give them the exclusive we only have to go on the merry-go-round once . |
| 25 | If we gave them the five hundred , we wo n't , we are within , having said that , we 're not going to give everybody everything , I do n't think . |
| 26 | Different respondents may use different frames of reference unless we tell them the purpose of the rating procedure . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's a tricky one to answer because the complexities are still there but we made them a lot more hidden . |
| 28 | Whereby erm we do n't end up actually doing the things for them , but we show them the way that they can do them for themselves . |
| 29 | But we gave them a lesson . |
| 30 | We sat and had a relaxing drink before we cooked them a typical English dinner of baked cod with new potatoes and vegetables , followed by rhubarb fool and cognac . |