Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] them the " in BNC.

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1 Bann face Garvey at Blaris on Wednesday night ( 8pm ) and Holywood at Olympia next Saturday , needing two outright wins to secure them the honours .
2 The frictions grew steadily worse , and in an attempt to accommodate them the 1897 Vienna Congress resolved that the party become a federation of six national parties .
3 The Syrian foreign minister who , after meeting Douglas Hurd , evoked the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 in which the British and the French secretly carved up the Middle East between them ( later using the League of Nations to give them the so-called Mandates as a cover ) , was not making some arcane and irrelevant allusion .
4 Young people differ in their interests and aptitudes , and we need a range of schools to offer them the best opportunities .
5 Three are commonly identified i.e. national , local and school , and in an attempt to clarify them the following paragraphs examine each in turn .
6 The Act emphasises the crucial importance of support for those carers , and without strategies to empower them the Act can not work .
7 They really do stand a better chance being left there to their own devices for the parents to feed them the right diet than being picked up and brought here .
8 Runners are more conservative , instead of their heads they look to their shoes to give them the competitive edge .
9 His determination to deny them the ‘ improved living and working conditions , proper social protection , dialogue between management and labour ’ aspired to by the Maastricht social chapter suggest he may have had a different community in mind from the sort outside the gates of Timex .
10 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 !
11 Their views should be sought on the issues to be raised prior to a case conference to afford them the opportunity to seek advice and prepare their representations .
12 Having said that , we still made sure that our reps called on the group to give them the information .
13 We made a team to give them the opportunity to work together … to give them the respect … to give them the idea that they could be in the top 50 , not by talking but by working together .
14 I went on tour frequently from Simla to most of the main cities of India , speaking to Indian audiences and getting together groups of refugees from Burma to give them the latest news and to encourage them with hopes of victory and return .
15 Face to face meetings with parents and others is usually the best way to communicate but meeting two hundred or so parents on an individual basis to tell them the date of sports day is n't a practical or worthwhile activity .
16 But skipper Gary McAllister is backing ‘ Lucky ’ Lukic to give them the foundation to reach the last eight , and its lucrative mini-leagues , with a display which will restore his reputation .
17 separate reports of the views of each of the groups to give them the opportunity for further comment ;
18 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 ) .
19 Father Paddy had rung the previous day to give them the news from Rosstrevor .
20 The police spent two days trying to persuade the butcher to give them the name or names of his supplier .
21 A couple who were kidnapped and pushed off a cliff in a burning car have asked a court to give them the pick-up truck in which they were abducted .
22 Yet many easterners complain that , since their revolutions began in 1989 , the Community has been too wrapped up in its own affairs to give them the attention they deserve .
23 He and her mother were more than welcome , she would delight in the chance to show them the treasure that was hers , but leave it she would not .
24 Some people ask a friend to show them the ropes , or , worse still , they teach themselves .
25 They had gone ahead of their Australian guide and he did not have a chance to warn them the creature — usually docile — lived there .
26 With no television to distract them the family formed their own orchestra , and often visited jails for services and concerts .
27 In return for permission to reside on Henderson , Smiley Ratliff has promised to provide the inhabitants of nearby Pitcairn Island with the use of his proposed airstrip , a launch to ferry them the 90 or so miles between Pitcairn and Henderson .
28 That 's why we aim to empower young people to give them the maximum choice to build their own success .
29 Most tournament players throw up blades of grass to tell them the wind direction and strength , which is ideal to copy .
30 A good example of this is provided by the reaction provoked by the influx of the Palatines , fleeing religious persecution in Germany , and the Whig ministry 's decision to allow them the benefit of naturalisation in 1709 .
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