Example sentences of "they [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lisa came back downstairs again after bidding her goodnight to find Alexander in the drawing-room , pouring them each a brandy . |
| 2 | A jolly young waiter with a Gloucestershire accent and the stars and stripes emblazoned on his apron lit the candle lamp on their table and gave them each a menu . |
| 3 | Must have cost you quite a lot to buy them each a drink . |
| 4 | When the children arrive you give them each a balloon and make up a convenient number of teams . |
| 5 | They went into the hut and the Bārakotes gave them each a bowl of buffalo milk . |
| 6 | Kolchinsky handed them each a dossier which contained details of their particular assignment ( to be destroyed after reading ) and , in Sabrina 's case , an airline ticket , maps of Beirut , written confirmation of her hotel booking , the name of her contact and a sum of money in Lebanese pounds . |
| 7 | Got ta share it all out perfect even why do n't you say , stick it on the wall , give them each a piece of paper and they 've got ta do it I 've got an idea , you can compile a quiz |
| 8 | He made them each a cup of tea , listing other jobs for which he was not suitable . |
| 9 | Anne Jay , who checks in the contestants and hands them each a medal for completing the race , said the average age of those taking part is twenty to thirty-five years — ‘ then they come to their senses ! ’ |
| 10 | The Pru has half a million motorists on its books and is sending them each a booklet when their policies are renewed explaining the benefits of conversion . |
| 11 | bought the wagon round , yeah I made them clear the site cos well actually it 's twelve being as , they are a bit stained |
| 12 | He would allow them half a day to consider this generous offer , otherwise the fullest attacks would continue . |
| 13 | Beveridge 's four social evils of Want , Disease , Squalor and Ignorance must remain as much the primary targets of any party of the left today as when he first wrote about them half a century ago . |
| 14 | The Dorchester crowd that sought to rescue the Pretender 's effigy from being burnt by the Dissenters on George I 's coronation day were encouraged by a certain gentleman who gave them half a hogshead of beer . |
| 15 | My mother I remember there was a sale of work going on at Palfrey church once and bef I had just been made apprentice at Wolverhampton and of course I got amongst the , they , when they came the , the Derby day they were all having a bet on it so I , I said to the give them half a crown , so he said you ca n't have half a crown and he said what do you want it for so I said they 're putting it on a horse was on this horse it won , so of course this sale of work was in great progress when I gets off the train at station and thought well I could n't understand in er Palfrey Church Hall , so she was there in all her finery and I said we 've won , we 've won she said shut up , shut up she said but erm no I think the biggest character in Caldmore was Father . |
| 16 | I 'll fill that in as well , Northern Hydraulics because I 'm paying er hydraulics prices for er seals when we can get them half the price off them . |
| 17 | The cost of the charter to Aru had long since been settled : Yong would pay them half the sum now , and his relations would pay the balance once we and the cargo had safely reached Aru . |
| 18 | It took them half the time to get Kevin out to the Murphy cart than it took to get Liam sobered up again and it was Nellie who finally drove the cart away with its very full load . |
| 19 | They had people to do that for them half the time , there was no need for it , but it was as if I had to earn my keep , I had to repay what they 'd done for me , with the people that worked there laughing at me behind my back , wondering where I 'd come from , thinking maybe I was no better than them . |
| 20 | I know , we used to drive round in them half the time ! |
| 21 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 22 | The whole ritual took most of them half an hour though there were always a few that gossiped so much they had to be nagged by their Head Girl . |
| 23 | She 's supposed to take them half an hour before she has any to eat . |
| 24 | It took them half an hour to get the fire under control , and the building , two tractors and a number of farm implements were severely damaged . |
| 25 | And even you 'll probably get one or two of them wrong occasionally but most of them 'll be right and when you get one or two of them wrong the teacher 'll say Oh not C K like desk for example not C K on the end of desk because it 's got this letter S in it as well . |
| 26 | ‘ They get them fresh every day , ’ said Lili . |
| 27 | we 've actually had trout in the freezer for ages , and not used them fresh the day I got them I 'll use it and |
| 28 | I could n't say , You 'd give them such a shock that it 'd come as small fry when Darling Bina said she wanted a career on the stage . |
| 29 | They will not be enough on their own , nor is it likely that you will be able to make them fit the question set . |
| 30 | These days employers are increasingly using psychometric testing ( personality tests ) to try and help them fit the personality to the job ( see pp 117–18 ) . |