Example sentences of "[v-ing] them [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't mind seeing them a long way off , ’ said the worried lady nome . |
| 2 | On Wednesday evening , the Admiral looked in on the club after dinner and Amiss heard him say goodnight to the five , remarking that he had a little work to do in the office , after which he would get back home and turn in : he looked forward to seeing them the following day . |
| 3 | When we got into the studio , I got Gibson to send a few guitars down for a try-out and I ended up using them the whole way through the album . |
| 4 | They are directed primarily at feminists , and so they tend to treat conscious and unconscious subjectivities as discursive artefacts , granting them no autonomous analysis . |
| 5 | The prospects may therefore be good for a long-term strategy which aims at both restricting the scale of most operating units and granting them a reasonable degree of operational autonomy in order to make participative democracy a feasible proposition , while developing further the economies of administration , co-ordination , etc. which are at present realised by large-scale enterprises . |
| 6 | No employer has a right to take the work of a man or a woman without paying them a living wage . |
| 7 | People who think they 're being persecuted always think people are paying them a great deal of attention so they come to believe that they must in a sense be very important people , ’ he said . |
| 8 | He treated his established artists as professional associates , entering into legal contracts and paying them a regular income in advance against sales . |
| 9 | I did think of paying them a non-means-tested benefit in exchange for abstention , but I 'm sure I 'd never get the figures past Margaret Beckett . |
| 10 | are now considering awarding them a permanent memento . |
| 11 | I am sure I could sting this town 's senile pensioners for a couple of quid , by selling them the old tea hut as firewood . |
| 12 | A friend of mine lost a whole litter by feeding them a wild goose which he thought had died as a result of a collision with overhead power cables . |
| 13 | And then we we 're sending them the net list and saying there 's your new le er price |
| 14 | Sending them the net list |
| 15 | The great thing about the game is that you 're teaching them a little bit of culture |
| 16 | I was teaching them the fine art of drinking Tequila Slammers , one of the fastest ways of getting spifflicated known to man . |
| 17 | It 's baloney , of course , but it 's getting them a high degree of visibility . |
| 18 | That hand of mine wo n't go the right shape although I 've tried , I knew it would deform joints and so I put all my efforts into spreading them the opposite way , but I have n't won on that one , can you see ? |
| 19 | The British team looked quite forlorn in comparison by the time the fighters got on the mat , the Japanese conceding them a small corner . |
| 20 | Yeah , it 's all religious , hypocrisy okay , humane , it 's humane to slog these boys down the chimney , yeah , it 's humane giving them a good beating is n't it , right then . |
| 21 | ‘ We will make sure they go to families who are capable of giving them a good home , ’ said Mrs Henderson . |
| 22 | and giving them a good pull . |
| 23 | I think the time has probably passed now , all the schools have got their own budgets , they 've got their own builders who are giving them a good service , and I doubt whether this is the time to resurrect that , especially with local government review not far off , and the future of a county-wide D S O in some doubt , when it comes to local government review . |
| 24 | Once you 've finished with the Steamatic , allow your carpets to dry for 1–2 hours before giving them a good vacuum to remove any remaining dirt particles . |
| 25 | In another study George Bokert increased the degree of thirst in his subjects by not only depriving them of water for twenty-four hours , but also giving them a salty meal before going to bed . |
| 26 | Should we be giving them a wide berth for fear of rampant Rottweilers lunging at our wing mirrors ? |
| 27 | Quite a number of the students knew no English when they arrived , and the first year was spent in giving them a working knowledge . |
| 28 | If not , why should Brackenbury , that most circumspect of gentlemen , have placed emphasis on those last eleven words , giving them a sinister ring ? |
| 29 | He argued he had been giving them a practical demonstration of his work as a ‘ psycho-sexual ’ counsellor and doctor . |
| 30 | er we do n't have to po er , you see , it 's to do with school anyway , but they 're giving them a packed lunch so I believe . |