Example sentences of "we [vb base] they a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When we go to the unit , we greet the residents — we have twelve of them — we say hello and then we make them a cup of tea . ’ |
| 2 | This , I would argue , though not all would agree , may tell us something interesting about the way the brain compartmentalizes different aspects of visual processing and it may tell us that subjects are more conservative about admitting to seeing a very degraded image than about trying to move their eyes to it , but it sheds little light on the actual experiences the patients are having when we show them a light . |
| 3 | Oh on those , no we charge them a lot more . |
| 4 | It is possible to live with wild animals , if we give them a little space . |
| 5 | ‘ Right from the start , we give them a very clear picture that they 're coming to work in someone 's home . |
| 6 | We give them a list of clients ' names and room numbers , and then they 're asked to go round and place rooms and names together . |
| 7 | ‘ When someone starts work here , we give them a very clear picture that they 're coming to work in someone 's home . |
| 8 | We 're on the same pitch then , so we give them a game and that would apply in the Premier League . ’ |
| 9 | Sometimes we give them a little canvas pack , or they will fasten on to their keeper 's neck or earlobe , armpit or face . |
| 10 | And we give them a murderer to go with it . ’ |
| 11 | We welcome busy people to our home , and we give them a pleasant place to work in . ’ |
| 12 | They have asked that we give them a similar quantity from each department . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | The trouble about that is , it 's now enforced upon us and that 's official target , we have to set priority of fire certificates because we need the money , bluntly , otherwise we have to find it elsewhere , so we give them a priority that they would n't otherwise have . |
| 15 | We give them a three day intensive in in a in fully expensed by us . |
| 16 | So we give them a twenty five per cent mark-up , and we reckon that this helps with the whole business of child-care , since we 're not ungenerous in the salaries we pay , fo for the start , adding , by adding twenty five per cent of that , we 're helping . |
| 17 | Erm the blacksmith and we give them a horseshoe nail . |
| 18 | come back with it and we we give them a carrier bag erm to carry all the stuff in . |
| 19 | We give them a little trinket box or a ring holder , it 's traditional , ’ she explains , in a charmingly deliberate Scots Italian voice . |
| 20 | We give them a provisional kind of price and not really gone into it in detail . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But we 've also had an artist from the Art Week event , which the Rainforest Festival overlaps with going into a chosen school , with a member of Friends of the Earth , we give them a talk about rainforest , and they do the , I do n't know if you 've seen them in the buses , the sort of advertising slots , we 've got 80 of those slots on the buses throughout the rainforest festival , and the children are actually drawing pictures for them . |
| 23 | At last the Eastern Bloc nations might have a chance of catching up with the West , and we owe them a debt . |
| 24 | Their varied tasks in the Library have all contributed to its success and we owe them a very real debt of gratitude . |
| 25 | We owe them a great deal and can best repay them by finding a political solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Damien Walsh , spokesman for Wirral leisure services department , said : ‘ We owe them a debt of gratitude . ’ |
| 28 | Damien Walsh , spokesman for Wirral Leisure Services Department , said : ‘ We owe them a debt of gratitude . ’ |
| 29 | In special circumstances we 'll cover some expenses and we pay them a token fee , which a lot of guests donate to charity . |
| 30 | Maj Abraham said the villagers did not want the convoy to leave because ‘ we offer them a chance of life . |