Example sentences of "[to-vb] them [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to promise them a press conference , and I thought you 'd rather do it now , old son . |
| 2 | He details his daily struggle : trying to treat patients as he knows he can , yet unable to find them a hospital bed or specialist referral . |
| 3 | So there will be a slight improvement on that position but erm I do feel that we have to continue to do them the costume plays we ca n't just say oh we do n't make a profit on it , we ca n't do it , I think that would be a very shortsighted erm philosophy . |
| 4 | And in the fourth year I tend to do them an evaluation sheet , where I write down lots of questions about the project they have just done , and maybe get them to sit for a double lesson and write about the things they experienced and found out … |
| 5 | To console them after their bad experience , the mothers at St Bernard 's decided to give them a surprise party to mark Alice 's 90th birthday . |
| 6 | ‘ We simply wanted to give them a pay rise for trying their best , ’ said company chairman Brian . |
| 7 | YOUR children may be pestering you to give them a games system for Christmas but you may be better off with a real computer instead . |
| 8 | It was part of my job to give them a crash course . |
| 9 | Diana had said she would look in to say hello to give them a morale boost , but when one of her staff saw the route she had to take to get there they said she could not possibly go . |
| 10 | The travellers said that as gypsies the council was obliged by law to give them a camp site . |
| 11 | They stopped on a straight stretch of upland road blatantly obvious and since there was a can of oil in the boot Maxim opened the bonnet to give them a cover story of the oil warming light having come on . |
| 12 | Two bison , painted 15,000 years ago in a cave known as the Grotte de Mayrieres near Bruniquel , France , were virtually erased when Boy Scouts decided to give them a spring clean under the impression that they were graffiti . |
| 13 | The lathes were serviced with a light oil film , draped in it as if to give them an overcoat protection that would ensure their survival against age and wear . |
| 14 | Even in her semi-conscious state she had been able to give them the phone number of her sister Margaret in Australia . |
| 15 | A couple who were kidnapped and pushed off a cliff in a burning car have asked a court to give them the pick-up truck in which they were abducted . |
| 16 | A GANG of five teenagers stole a 20-year-old woman 's cash card and then tortured her to give them the pin number . |
| 17 | Scrum-half Campbell converted to give them the half-time lead . |
| 18 | I mean , if you , if you into , if you were trying to look into building or commercial and you had to send them a planning application for it , you 'd have to prove that building could support the weight . |
| 19 | No , when you read the word ‘ love ’ in the Bible it means something completely different ; you do n't have to hug anyone , kiss anyone or call them Ermentrude to love them the Jesus way . |
| 20 | C they used to call them the horse boxes . |
| 21 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 22 | They wanted to call them the Milton Keynes or the Ipswich , but this was thought too cheeky a dig at Marshall and Celestion . |
| 23 | They wanted to call them the Milton Keynes or the Ipswich , but this was thought too cheeky a dig at Marshall and Celestion . |
| 24 | After releasing a couple of singles on their own Hag label in 1989 , they signed for Musidisc the following year and released a debut album in ‘ A Weapon Called The Word ’ , which has since gone on to earn them a silver disc . |
| 25 | Everybody looked at me , waiting for me to show them the robot animal . |
| 26 | Can you imagine , you know a teacher , I thought I had to tell them every minute detail of these plans . |
| 27 | Most tournament players throw up blades of grass to tell them the wind direction and strength , which is ideal to copy . |
| 28 | I should like to have a good bath — I have n't had one for weeks — and something to eat , before you begin to cut me up as though I were one of your business opponents laid out for you to hand them the coup de grâce . ’ |
| 29 | The only publishing company to sell on the basis solely of their imprint , their sales figures alone are enough to make them a publishing phenomenon . |