Example sentences of "gave them [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duncan gave them both a farewell smile and left . |
| 2 | Neither woman spoke and Alain gave them both a wry look before urging his mother further into the room . |
| 3 | The influential Bell study gave them largely a clean bill of health as a model for determining disputes concerning entitlement to benefit . |
| 4 | Venality was rife ; the precedent of even groups as illustrious as the Beatles and the Stones signing to contracts which gave them only a penny a record had become legendary : at the end of the Sixties , Allen Klein had achieved notoriety for his dexterous accounting abilities , working for both groups in the role of both ‘ finder ’ extracting hidden royalties from the record company for the group — and ‘ taker ’ — extracting them from the group for himself . |
| 5 | Banks and securities firms lag behind their rivals elsewhere in innovation , and have lost what competitive edge Japan 's relatively low interest rates and strong currency gave them abroad a few years ago . |