Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] them the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | about analysis or me giving them the dream and I have to sort of like get out for myself what |
| 2 | Or he gave them the impression that he wrestled , with limbs contorted , in the effort to seize hold of what truth could be found . |
| 3 | I went around being nice to children for a while , being a sort of modern Pied Piper , but I learnt that they 're a manipulative lot and crazy for money , literally crazy for it , so I gave them the elbow . |
| 4 | After being swamped by people demanding that we give them the freebie SEAL course , we have , after long and difficult nights of deliberation , come to a decision . |
| 5 | Some , however , did receive Him and believed in Him ; so he gave them the right to become God 's children . |
| 6 | When Victor and I gave them the slip at Victoria station they knew we were onto them . |
| 7 | Keep them out and you deny them the chance to share in our unpopularity . |
| 8 | You know if you , if you give them the notice . |
| 9 | And we send them the replacement , and they let the broken one sit there . |
| 10 | ‘ If we afforded them the respect they deserve the respect they are given in other European countries then the standard of service we would get would be a lot higher , ’ says the 55-year-old Swiss-trained baker . |
| 11 | He did , however , acknowledge that it would be neither responsible nor sensible to ignore the existence of the Action Committee , and he offered them the opportunity of a meeting with representatives of the council . |
| 12 | The New Towns Act , 1946 , provided for the designation of sites for New Towns ; the setting up of development corporations for their development ; and it gave them the range of powers they would use . |
| 13 | Mr Howe said : ‘ It was the only chance Arsenal had and it won them the match . ’ |
| 14 | United put profits before results last season and it cost them the Championship . |
| 15 | Different respondents may use different frames of reference unless we tell them the purpose of the rating procedure . |
| 16 | Whereby erm we do n't end up actually doing the things for them , but we show them the way that they can do them for themselves . |
| 17 | Police were told and tailed Newall but he gave them the slip and fled from Britain on a yacht he inherited from his parents , a court in Gibraltar heard . |
| 18 | He came in with the ideas , give the drivers and conductors everything they asked for whereby my training had always been to only give them what they were really entitled to , not give them anything extra but he gave them the earth and that erm did n't sort of go very well for the new Manager who came in , he had a lot of undoing to do there , that this fella had given away , in his six or seven weeks there . |
| 19 | But he accords them the right to boast , for they have returned with money and presents which are proof of their achievement . |
| 20 | No it does n't , but it gives them the means to promote it . |
| 21 | Not only did this save the horses the pull up the hill through the village , but it gave them the occasion for one more glimpse of Tamar and the children , who stood on the steps , waving . |
| 22 | Cooke says : ‘ Egg pasta is certainly preferred by many chefs not only because of its excellent colour and flavour , but because it offers them the possibility of upgrading their pasta menus , thus increasing their profits . ’ |
| 23 | They joined in our events for young women , and devoured our publications , because it gave them the springboard for taking action themselves . |
| 24 | Girls of various shapes and sizes paraded in front of the boys while she told them the prices so that they would be sure they had enough money on them . |
| 25 | They were very pleased when I told them the outcome of my night on the tiles and Otley sat next to me on the sofa with his arm round my shoulders . |
| 26 | But she added : ‘ The people at work think I 'm insane and when I showed them the video of the bungee jump it just confirmed their opinion that I 'm a lunatic . ’ |
| 27 | As I handed them the keys to their new home it was like unlocking the door to their future happiness . ’ |
| 28 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |
| 29 | I 'm just one of the Star Councillors , but I was n't in the Star Room when you showed them the animal . |
| 30 | When she raised them the rest of the way she held them not to her streaming eyes , but to her ears , listening intently for the sound of the sea . |