Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] the [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 2 | Shit , I 'd like to know what the hell they 're up to . |
| 3 | I found a medicine dropper and used that to feed it the milk they left me . |
| 4 | ‘ The beauty and interesting nature of this little bird ’ , Gould wrote , ‘ naturally made me anxious to bring home living examples ; I accordingly captured about twenty fully fledged birds , and kept them alive for some time ; but the difficulties necessarily attendant upon travelling in a new country rendering it impracticable to afford them the attention they required , I regret to say the whole were lost . ’ |
| 5 | They say they 're having to deal with more and more dogs owned by families who have n't been able to give them the exercise they need . |
| 6 | We are able to give them the independence they so badly need , and with it self respect and dignity . |
| 7 | Tie in climbing roses to give them the support they need to thrive |
| 8 | Those responsible are having problems adapting to adult life and we try to help , to give them the skills they lack and to get them to do something constructive in the community . ’ |
| 9 | On the one hand , Parliament did not trust the police enough to give them the power they wanted and then let them get on with it . |
| 10 | How easy to give them the book they sought , to be done with the entire affair . |
| 11 | We work with about 60 women a year , and I know many of them would genuinely say that at the start they were unemployable , that they could have gone back to drugs , ended up back in prison , but they did n't because Clean Break was there at the right time for them , to give them the opportunities they needed . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You will not get the best out of the professionals you consult unless you have a realistic appreciation of what you want and intend to be open and honest enough with them to give them the facts they will need to help you . |
| 14 | We 're able to give them the care they need . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The futility of their efforts is deemed to be enough to teach them the lessons they need to learn . |
| 17 | In the car on the return journey , clutching the row of books like a concertina , Mungo thanked him for the third time , promising to pay him the moment they got home . |
| 18 | Whether working in small or large groups , encourage the chldren to think what the space they are working in represents . |
| 19 | Well it , it 's been stupid this laid on this settee falling down back , it 's blinking ridiculous , yeah , we 've just got back from hospital and they 'll send her a letter for er , to make an appointment for her to go back , to see what the treatment they 're gon na give her , so , will it go in Pete 's car ? |
| 20 | ‘ If you have experienced pros , you have got to show them the respect they deserve . |
| 21 | Virtually all the inmates I saw and spoke to were friendly , smiling and quite pleased to show me the work they were doing . |