Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] them [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The County Council er w would train you but you 'd do your erm year 's training and then you had to work for them for a year , I think it was a year or eighteen months . |
| 2 | While the Americans had not entirely despaired of better relations with Nasser , they looked to the US 6th Fleet to remind possible trouble-makers of the power which the United States could immediately bring to bear against them in a crisis . |
| 3 | if other members have material on similar themes , the Social Secretary will be pleased to hear of them with a view to their incorporation in a future programme . |
| 4 | His pedipalps are brightly coloured and patterned and as soon as he sights a female , he begins to signal with them in a kind of manic semaphore . |
| 5 | Paul Young shared his taxi with Nigel Dempsey and Christopher MacPherson but when they arrived in Hemlington , Middlesbrough , Mr Young was invited to go with them for a drink . |
| 6 | And mother used to attend to them with a doctor like you know . |
| 7 | Which brings us back to the beginning , and the need to recognise a horse 's emotions and to respond to them in a way which will not rouse the horse 's fear or anger . |
| 8 | ‘ He used to get through them like a packet of Polo mints apparently . |
| 9 | When people think of natural scientists doing research , they tend to think of them in a laboratory , probably doing an experiment . |
| 10 | — Department store bosses trying to try on clothes in their fiddly little changing rooms ( you can always tell people who 've been clothes shopping they 're the ones with the bruised elbows ) ; — Town planners and architects who think steps are an interesting feature trying to get up them in a wheelchair , with a pram , or just with creaky old legs ; — Hospital consultants who make ten appointments for the same time waiting in out-patients , especially if it 's the day when there 's a dotty old lady , a whining child and an old man who coughs and spits all in the same little section ; — Weird fashion experts wearing their crazier outfits in Darlington on a rainy Monday . |
| 11 | She 'll have to stay on them for a couple of years , more than likely , perhaps for life . |
| 12 | So the simplest method of disconnecting the pipes is to saw through them or to cut through them with a pipe cutter . |
| 13 | After a lot of pestering I was allowed to speak to two friends who had come to court with me , and I was appalled by having to speak to them through a glass and metal grille thing . |