Example sentences of "[to-vb] them a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The band has already shown it can knock out pop tunes a cover of Nancy Sinatra 's Kinky Love , for instance but the audience had to be prepared to indulge them a little . |
| 2 | I had to promise them a press conference , and I thought you 'd rather do it now , old son . |
| 3 | Four of the biggest British companies in the waste-to-energy business ( generating power from waste ) have formed a lobby group to persuade the government to grant them a subsidy . |
| 4 | Probably if ‘ Damnation Derek ’ had bothered to talk to people and get to know them a bit before preaching at them , he would have discovered that they would want to ask him some questions about what he believed . |
| 5 | But you get to know lots of others to talk to and that and on trips to away matches then you get to know them a lot better . |
| 6 | Yes with with the membership being on the doorstep , we do get to know them a lot better . |
| 7 | Manson saw that somehow and decided to write them a letter because he did n't like being called a creep . |
| 8 | I w I was just wondering if you wanted to write them a letter first |
| 9 | He details his daily struggle : trying to treat patients as he knows he can , yet unable to find them a hospital bed or specialist referral . |
| 10 | There are many who arrive actually on their 60th birthday , asking us to find them a job because they have no intention of retiring . |
| 11 | ‘ My time was being taken up by people asking me either to find them a folly or a buyer for some extraordinary building , ’ says Gwyn . |
| 12 | Hungary has appealed to foreign zoos to find them a home . |
| 13 | Again , the Germans did better , 22% being prepared to trust them a great deal . |
| 14 | Just to sell them a product without educating them to challenge and to care about the ingredients that go into those products would be wrong . |
| 15 | How should one estimate the faults of those who offered incense without any torture , those who gave way only after cruel torture by rack and fire , and those who had not actually offered incense at all but had bribed a friendly official to sell them a certificate to say they had done so ? |
| 16 | Perkins group managing director , Tony Gilroy says : ‘ Despite the current recession in the construction industry , we expect to sell them a lot more than that under the new agreement . |
| 17 | I hope it will be possible for all questionnaires to be returned by 30th September 1985 at the latest , but if in practice this is likely to cause problems , I shall of course be happy to receive them a little later . |
| 18 | To replace them a lease was taken on 71 Lower Sloane Street . |
| 19 | The failure of diplomacy to win them a homeland has left them hoping that Israeli retaliation against Iraq will split Syria and Egypt from the anti-Iraq alliance and open a new Arab-Israeli conflict . |
| 20 | Other men 's wives try to help them a little . |
| 21 | Carrie was very pleased to see the change in her father now that he had settled into his new job , but she still fretted over her parents , and she had not forgotten her vow that one day she would have enough money to buy them a decent house to live in . |
| 22 | He offered to buy them a tin of beer each , but they said they 'd rather have Coca-Cola . |
| 23 | Those with CCJs often have difficulty finding a lender willing to advance them a loan but it is not impossible . |
| 24 | In Paris in March , 1951 he assured Eisenhower , then Supreme Allied Commander in Western Europe , that with 12 extra infantry battalions plus the Vietnamese army which he was organizing and training , he would repel the anticipated Vietminh mass attack in September and go on to deal them a decisive blow . |
| 25 | It is understood that the Birmingham-based van operation and Leyland lorry assembly plant in Lancashire have only enough brake and clutch assemblies to last them a matter of days . |
| 26 | They had enjoyed a measure of success , but the outnumbered French had resisted with great ferocity to deny them a decisive result . |
| 27 | I should like to thank Edward and Peter for their years of service to the Diocese and to wish them a long and happy retirement . |
| 28 | Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that |
| 29 | They seem to use them a lot , buses , do n't they ? |
| 30 | Grey eyes swept the outfit which had caused her some qualms , but it was modest compared to Nicky Kai 's , the oyster-coloured chiffon shirt collarless and slit to a point between her breasts , loose enough to leave them a mystery only occasionally glimpsed when she moved , dark nipples a shadowy suggestion . |