Example sentences of "we [verb] them [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They only stand for it because we bring them hard currency , ’ Jim explained , as he accelerated away . |
| 2 | Why should we trust them this time ? |
| 3 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 4 | We give them one period in the year of intense stimulation . ’ |
| 5 | So that there 's a kind of assessment built in there … but that piece of work goes forward in the end and is more , slightly more , formally assessed in the sense that we give them direct feedback on performance , and that runs from technical notes , director 's notes , to a very much more abstract formal assessment , which is essentially subjective , ‘ How does one feel about this piece , the atmosphere it creates ’ , … and that 's quite different from director 's notes , which can be of a technical variety to do with voice , movement , audibility , characterization , anything ; the things that are actually being described , analysed , looked at in the end … |
| 6 | She intones , in ominous transatlantic baritone : ‘ We licked them this time , but they 'll be back again . |
| 7 | And now you have Prozac , why should we believe them this time ? |
| 8 | There were tracks over the snow and we followed them that day . |
| 9 | Anyone who bought the shares when we tipped them last year at 8p has done well . |
| 10 | We alerted them last year . |
| 11 | Oh they just There would always be somebody would be on the road at any time looking for harvest time and my father would say to someone , tell the McGregors We called them that time , so the McGregors came up went tell told the others . |
| 12 | So the new element of the system is very much that we , the local authority , the social services department , do now have to assess people 's needs before we offer them any sort of care package to address those needs . |
| 13 | Now the couple had expected it was dead and we gave them false hope . |
| 14 | If you make a mistake , it 's just not possible to go back and retrieve it , and for a selector to say , ‘ Well , I do n't think this person 's made a very good case , I 'm sure if we gave them another chance they would make a better one . ’ |
| 15 | That 's because I 'm going to suggest , so we call them interim fieldwork re , interim fieldwork reports . |
| 16 | We wish them continued success in their work . |
| 17 | But we had them this morning . |
| 18 | Well we had them last week , I 'm not going to ask them . |
| 19 | ‘ Up London , ’ said Dot , ‘ we have them any time . |
| 20 | I think we need them this morning . |
| 21 | ‘ That has been the only topic of conversation throughout the county lately , ’ adds Chivers , ‘ We beat them last year at Casement Park , then fell to Donegal in the final . |
| 22 | We considered them exemplary material for a series of CBC radio talks , edited and read by him , and produced by me . |