Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was their own idea , started without help before I began my work as an adviser and I want to try and help them make it a success . |
| 2 | One of them asked him a question . |
| 3 | Her own family has suffered the anguish of repossession , and her personal story of how her local Liberal Democrat-controlled council helped them made her the winner in the school 's mock election . |
| 4 | Ask them to write me a reference so I got form to fill in to send off for something but I 've got ta write something . |
| 5 | I think talking to them helped me a lot to get over those first few months . |
| 6 | " Hearken , you three , " he said , picking out three-goblin brothers , " follow those boys , stay with them , and , whatever you do , do n't let them remember what the sun-god told them to do . " |
| 7 | Well , yes , but I wanted them to do me a list you see . |
| 8 | In other words , it is not only cheaper to buy the parent company 's shares , buying them gets you a share of the non-telecom activities for less than nothing . |
| 9 | I do n't want them to brand me a bully-boy because I 'm a National Socialist , to discredit me through their media . |
| 10 | er and therefore for that very reason do not like to see the Government going in for a whole series of embarrassing defeats er and erm getting into very grave difficulties with an important Bill and I therefore arise only to ask my Noble Friend er at the last minute would like to consider very seriously erm a conciliatory reply of whether accepting er the amendments with er or er or some of them er with er er er view to their reconsideration or asking those who propose them to defer them from to from today 's sitting , there 's still further sittings ahead , but whether he was prepared to ask them to give him a chance to reflect without incurring serious Government defeats to reflect further on whether further amendments can not and should not be made . |
| 11 | ‘ All it tells us is he must 've had a foreign accent for them to give him a name like that . |
| 12 | I got them to give me the number for the cleaners ' mess-room and asked there . |
| 13 | But there I am , waiting for them to give me the okay . ’ |
| 14 | You 'll just have to get them to give you a quote . |
| 15 | For them to give you the service you want they need to know about your ideas and any suggestions and comments you may have to ensure the best possible service . |
| 16 | Er I will have explained er er I certainly would 've explained on the phone that er part of the contract requires them to give us a list of prospective advertisers . |
| 17 | They may well love the new baby , but that does n't stop them giving it a tweak when your back is turned . |
| 18 | want them to send me a cover note |
| 19 | I 'll have to er give her a ring to and tell them to send me the advert . |
| 20 | Write a letter of enquiry to : asking them to send you a brochure and price list giving details of their goods . |
| 21 | ‘ I think that in any case technological developments ensure that there is no point in trying to propagandize or conceal , because people have access to the truth — at least , in theory they have access to more data that will enable them to determine what the truth of a matter is — through satellites , facsimiles , etc . |
| 22 | ‘ Shall I get them to call you a cab ? ’ — she asked . |
| 23 | ‘ Do you know , one of them brought me an oxtail the other evening ? ’ |
| 24 | So they got him a tent , and they put it at the top of my mum 's garden . |
| 25 | It was the same when her Mum got when it happened to her they got her a load of new clothes and she was trying them on and grandad said hey get in here now . |
| 26 | Yes we had er ships wh we , they call erm these liberty ships come in from America loaded with bombs and when they moved them up there , well they call them down here they call them liberty ships and er the bombs were loaded , so they used to erm put all timber between each layer of bombs and they had proper carpenters who would fix all these and when the dockers went down , they put these bombs out , cos they were n't detonated , the detonators were in the fore end of the ship , right down the lower hull and erm the bombs were loaded into open trucks loaded into , well the dockers they thought it was dangerous , cos we had the Fire Brigade , that 's the fire service down there and standing by with the fire engines and dockers they wanted the , they want a shilling , I think it was a shilling a day extra , well a shilling extra something like that and there they got it the shilling or extra pound , cos us crane drivers we were n't on the same par as them , so we asked for a shilling . |
| 27 | If they book me a flight out of Gatwick , like the charters do , I just say I 'm not going on that one , get me Luton , change the ticket , get me Manchester , I do n't care , I 'm not going from Gatwick . |
| 28 | ‘ And they bring us the tourain . ’ |
| 29 | Have they given you a tenor clef ? |
| 30 | Have they given you have they given you the length of two sides ? |