Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] them the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Volleyball : Chelmsford Partners women 's volleyball side are banking on a wealth of experience to give them the edge this Sunday in their first English Volleyball Association Cup Final.The team has an average age of nearly 34 , but they still fancy their chances of defeating a younger Sheffield Wednesday at Riverside ( start 1.30 pm ) . |
| 2 | After a short time the Duke of Grafton sold them the Rope Walk , a building where the old village craft had been carried out and where Ted Smith 's coach garage is now , and so they moved . |
| 3 | And the recently discovered structure of atoms gave them the idea that they could make helium out of hydrogen . |
| 4 | Most tournament players throw up blades of grass to tell them the wind direction and strength , which is ideal to copy . |
| 5 | A police force is selecting new recruits with the help of videos showing them the kind of incidents they might have to tackle . |
| 6 | A police force is selecting new recruits with the help of videos showing them the kind of incidents they might have to tackle . |
| 7 | Their standards of excellence won them the award for best staff restaurant , and they finished in joint second place overall out of all the shops , cafes , hotels , restaurants and canteens in the district . |
| 8 | But the men from the Midlands had enjoyed themselves so well , they decided the engraved glass trophy should stay in Scotland to give them the excuse to come back and play for it again ! |
| 9 | Small children can sometimes be persuaded to eat cow cake in the same way that old people will eat cat food , but the chief result of all this farming was to produce huge food mountains which we could then refuse to give to the Third World , or to the socialists of Eastern Europe , in order to teach them the error of their ways . |
| 10 | They might be short of one or two quality players , but in such a yo-yo season Villa have as good a chance as any , particularly if Dalian Atkinson returns from injury to give them the sort of finishing power they lacked last night . |
| 11 | The Act emphasises the crucial importance of support for those carers , and without strategies to empower them the Act can not work . |
| 12 | The Swindon win over Bournemouth found them the performance of the week award . |
| 13 | The level of tuition fees charged to students gives them the right to expect a professional standard of service , particularly with regard to test-marking ; the Education Service is judged , to a considerable extent , by that criterion . |