Example sentences of "them the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Business fliers fly with the airline that will most quickly give them the necessary coupons to go to , say , Hawaii with the family . |
| 2 | ‘ Grey ’ issues of money occur whenever enterprises that are short of funds to pay their obligations insist that the banks should make them the necessary advances to restore their ‘ liquidity ’ . |
| 3 | All my young ferrets get a similar introduction to give them the necessary experience for bigger operations within major burrow systems . |
| 4 | So , ideally , we need to forecast changes in demand for personnel , particularly highly trained professional personnel , in order to have time to develop and staff more training institutions — medical schools , professional social work departments and so on — and then to recruit suitable trainees and give them the necessary education and training before we try to implement a major change in policy . |
| 5 | Between them the eight runners had won three races ; they were racing 's cannon fodder . |
| 6 | okay , again I mean these are things that talk about confirmation I mean quite honestly I 'm I 'd be quite happy if we had offices where people talk to each other ninety per cent of the time rather than send memos and faxes to each other , and on the whole we are really talking about inside the office with the people who we work with I mean obviously clients as well trying to find something different , we tend tend to find that it 's very very easy sometimes to make a phone call it 's much easier to make a phone call and to talk to that person and give them the personal touch . |
| 7 | None of these methods seemed at the time to have any relevance to therapeutics , and the scientists who developed them would have found it very difficult to persuade the distributors of funds for medical research to support them , but without them the practical advances which came later would have been impossible . |
| 8 | Throughout human history , disabled people have constantly confounded the low expectations of others , and how much better it would be for special educators to raise the expectations of disabled children and their families by giving them an understanding of this , by helping them to accept their disabled identities with pride , by helping them to understand their place in the world and their rights as well as giving them the practical skills to deal with these issues . |
| 9 | I mean erm and sometimes of course you ca n't give them the practical help they need , you know , |
| 10 | Two separate grounds were advanced in support of the claim , namely , ( 1 ) the broad constitutional point that as the Commissioners of Customs and Excise had no authority from Parliament to impose the charges and the corporation were under no legal liability to pay them the latter should be entitled to recover , and ( 2 ) that the condictio indebiti applied where there was error in the interpretation of a public general statute . |
| 11 | We sat them down and gave them a drink and asked them the usual stuff . |
| 12 | Damned if the foundation could have this picture ; she 'd give them the nameless three condemned as undisciplined talent . |
| 13 | Will he ask his right hon. Friends the Home Secretary and the Secretary of State for the Environment to bring that home to the support services and the district decision-takers in South Yorkshire and to urge on them the prior claim of South Yorkshire police at this time ? |
| 14 | And if parents try to pass the buck by instructing childminders to ‘ give them the odd slap ’ they will be disappointed . |
| 15 | Barrymore did not know in which of them the mysterious man was living . |
| 16 | ‘ I have been alarmed at the easy way the Labour Party has in recent years allowed certain factions in society to dictate to them the philosophical approach they should be following . |
| 17 | In the seminary library he came across the works of the medieval Franciscan theologian Duns Scotus [ q.v. ] , and almost instantly recognized in them the philosophical backing for his own instinctive perception of the uniqueness of each being and created thing . |
| 18 | And at only 70 calories per generous serving of plain boiled rice , you know you are giving them the healthy option . |
| 19 | Above them the lavish sculpture continues with a graphic depiction of a man being eaten by lions , a play on Leoni 's name . |
| 20 | Ancestral spirits also exercise a shadowy effect , punishing those who fail to pay them the requisite respect . |
| 21 | He explained that children came to Cedars when their own school could not give them the individual help with basic skills which they needed . |
| 22 | Unearth them the following winter , remove all the rooted stems for transplanting and cut off any that have failed to root . |
| 23 | But enough carousing and photographing … would I mind , my Tasmanian countrymen asked , taking the World Cup back to Sydney for them the following morning ? |
| 24 | He then gives them the following details . |
| 25 | Pawley and Syder provide a number of examples , among them the following : |
| 26 | We also decided that Mike would have to take every third day off to recover , while Christophe continued to follow the chimps , so that he and Mike would know where to find them the following day . |
| 27 | Three are commonly identified i.e. national , local and school , and in an attempt to clarify them the following paragraphs examine each in turn . |
| 28 | She was surprised by the extent of Sue 's gratitude , when she came looking for them the following evening . |
| 29 | On Wednesday evening , the Admiral looked in on the club after dinner and Amiss heard him say goodnight to the five , remarking that he had a little work to do in the office , after which he would get back home and turn in : he looked forward to seeing them the following day . |
| 30 | We shall treat them as a special type of word and give them the following rule : when a pair of prefix-plus-stem words exists , both members of which are spelt identically , one of which is a verb and the other is either a noun or an adjective , the stress will be placed on the second syllable of the verb but on the first syllable of the noun or adjective . |