Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally speaking , it is better for farm animals to give them a lot more space and a lot more variety in their environment . |
| 2 | ‘ If they do n't drive , then they ask their husbands to give them a lift . |
| 3 | He bought groceries to last him the week , then popped next door to the frame shop to pick up the stainless steel frame he 'd ordered for a James Barker black and white print he 'd obtained in an auction some weeks before . |
| 4 | Mr Morris welcomed the principle of the Farm Assured Scotch Livestock initiative but added : ‘ The scheme guarantees consumers that stock have been produced according to welfare friendly standards but we would welcome steps to take it a stage further , particularly to embrace quality . |
| 5 | The dustbag itself forms part of the filtration system , so if high filtration is important to you , be sure to look out for cleaners that have dust indicators to tell you the amount the bag contains . |
| 6 | The Act emphasises the crucial importance of support for those carers , and without strategies to empower them the Act can not work . |
| 7 | Empty phrases to give you the illusion that it 's Adam who 's holding you , and not me ? |
| 8 | A small investment — for INCUBUS — in certain companies to give us a toehold inside me Common Market . |
| 9 | It 's long hours and when I get in I 've seen enough shoes to last me a life-time . ’ |
| 10 | However , I 'm not too impressed by the pickups and need some replacements to give it a bit more OOMPH . |
| 11 | A wife whose husband had had multiple sclerosis and went to a holiday home for the disabled for two weeks to give her a rest said : |
| 12 | I 'll take the little one home with me for a few days to give you a break . |
| 13 | We also use targets to give us a sense of achievement . |
| 14 | Moscow was also offended by the refusal of the Anglo-Americans to give her a share in controlling the German industrial heartland , the Ruhr , which lay in the British zone . |
| 15 | I 'd also like to thank his parents for what they have contributed over the years to make him the person he is , supporting him through college , and also for making me such a welcome member of their family . |
| 16 | In his Reith lectures , broadcast in 1991 and now published as a book , he has set aside his snails to give us a glimpse of human evolution through his geneticist 's eye . |
| 17 | 8.1 Finding the right expert You may need experts to give you an expert opinion in a number of areas : ( a ) accident reconstruction ( road accident or factory accident ) ; ( b ) more specialist engineering evidence ( metallurgists , road construction etc. ) ; ( c ) experts regarding particular equipment ( cranes , boats ) ; ( d ) experts re particular substances ( glues , fixing devices , gases ) ; ( e ) employment consultants regarding your client 's position on the open labour market should they have lost or are likely to lose their employment ; ( f ) medical evidence ; ( g ) nursing and rehabilitation specialists in serious cases ; ( h ) ancillary services in severe cases ( gardening , home help , home improvements ) ; ( i ) accountants ( in complicated future loss/special damage cases ) . |
| 18 | Coding can be done by interviewers to give them a break and to sustain their interest , but is more usually done by special staff . |
| 19 | separate reports of the views of each of the groups to give them the opportunity for further comment ; |
| 20 | To bring our participants ' social world to life in the kind of detail that is likely to carry conviction we must not just plunge into descriptions of the world of school and football ground , since without the concepts to see it no alternative to the official picture is likely to emerge . |
| 21 | AT THE end of the Treta , or Second Age , Dasaratha , the childless king of the Solar race , performed the Aswa-medha sacrifice of horses and begged the gods to grant him a son . |
| 22 | We 're also trying to find young , female African-American film-makers to give them a shot . ’ |
| 23 | Yet many easterners complain that , since their revolutions began in 1989 , the Community has been too wrapped up in its own affairs to give them the attention they deserve . |
| 24 | IN THE ancient fable the frogs called on the gods to give them a king . |
| 25 | I 'll talk to you about one of his experiments to give you a sort of flavour of it , although other people and himself and others have done a lot of interesting work that 's similar . |
| 26 | This neatly matches the region 's external debt and , says David Forrest — underwriting director of the London-based political risk insurer EIGA — ‘ we have to encourage investors to give it the ability to earn the foreign exchange to repay that debt . ’ |
| 27 | On the other hand , if he really had anything constructive to say to her she could n't allow phantom fears to deny her the opportunity of listening to him . |
| 28 | He looked , Caroline thought , like a host taking leave of a guest who 'd resisted all efforts to call it an evening . |
| 29 | Despite all her efforts to ignore it the sensation lingered on to torment her long after the contact had been broken . |
| 30 | A few seconds later , all is done — the screen changes to show you the status of the transfer , and drops back into split screen mode as soon as it is finished . |