Example sentences of "we [verb] them [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Shall we give them a nice sweet , hot cup of coffee ? |
2 | written question or shall we give them a written answer ? |
3 | They have asked that we give them a similar quantity from each department . |
4 | 6 League Games have been played as to date ( 22.06.93 ) , with 1 draw , 2 wins and 3 losses ( we have to give them some sort of chance before we give them a good thrashing ) . |
5 | Oh yeah all the all the hits er like er Bunch of Time and and Maggie and Old Flames and after all these years , if did n't do those you 'd be shot afterwards like but er what we do with the songs that that were like you know hit singles and that people really come to hear we make sure that you know that we do those and then we put in er you know what we think would be the favourite ones from albums and then we add in a sprinkling of the stuff from the new album so you know we give them a good cross-section for an hour and a half and then we have a good first half of the show as well we 've got first half of the show as well and our band go on with him for forty minutes and er they perform as well a few soloists and er then Tony and myself come on and we do an hour and a half and we go right everything we do on stage we have recorded at some time , we do n't do something that we have n't recorded . |
6 | We welcome busy people to our home , and we give them a pleasant place to work in . ’ |
7 | We give them a provisional kind of price and not really gone into it in detail . |
8 | Sometimes we give them a little canvas pack , or they will fasten on to their keeper 's neck or earlobe , armpit or face . |
9 | We give them a little trinket box or a ring holder , it 's traditional , ’ she explains , in a charmingly deliberate Scots Italian voice . |
10 | But look at it this way ; if we give them the exclusive we only have to go on the merry-go-round once . |
11 | Actually , the speaker that was talking about this was suggesting we give them an enormous amount of real tangible assets , er without it costing us anything . |
12 | We owe them a great deal and can best repay them by finding a political solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland . |
13 | It is fine for many of us , given the privileged lives that we lead ; it is hell for many of our citizens and we owe them a great deal more urgency than is provided by this useful but inadequate measure . |
14 | We sat and had a relaxing drink before we cooked them a typical English dinner of baked cod with new potatoes and vegetables , followed by rhubarb fool and cognac . |
15 | It does n't matter if we get them the wrong way round it 'll still work out . |
16 | We called them The Big Ones . |
17 | If ones came as in little wee pi pickups we called them the little lorry things you would sort of keep your eye very much because you did n't know they were looking for scrap and if you told them you had nothing they might go away with your iron gates or something . |
18 | In special circumstances we 'll cover some expenses and we pay them a token fee , which a lot of guests donate to charity . |
19 | ‘ I thought Spartak were a bit lax at the back over there , and let's be fair , we gave them a soft goal . |
20 | ‘ I thought Spartak were a bit lax at the back over there , and let's be fair , we gave them a soft goal . |
21 | We gave them an early Christmas present . |
22 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |
23 | We wish them a long , healthy and happy retirement . |
24 | We wish them a long , healthy and happy retirement . |
25 | We wish them a long , healthy and happy retirement . |
26 | We had them the other night . " |
27 | We thought it would be a good idea to give them a chance straight off to have an opinion , and we set them a nice problem , which was that they put a marble into something and another marble comes out thirty seconds later . |