Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] them the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third John Booth provided much of the capital for his partners , Samuel and Aaron Walker , when they established the business that eventually made them the leading ironmasters in the North of England . |
| 2 | He erm , he left school , he only told them the day before . |
| 3 | No , they only had them the the er rescue operations , rescue men . |
| 4 | Then I began to run into the guards , and every guard I saw , I did n't say anything , I just showed them the piece of paper which had written on it Hotel Intourist in Russian , and the phrase book . |
| 5 | So that stuck and eventually when that place folded and we came over here , er we just called them the Dollies and that was , they were referred to , everybody knew who they were , |
| 6 | The Virginia Company had itself produced a subsidiary company which occupied the islands at first known officially as Somers Islands — though when Shakespeare wrote The Tempest some people already called them the Bermoothes , and Bermuda it remained for posterity . |
| 7 | So I just gave them the statutory amount per tape |
| 8 | Lloyds was advertising its services as a small business adviser at the time , but the bank still lent them the money without any business plan and despite a survey report saying it was worth quite a lot less than the loan . |
| 9 | It grew to be a sort of gang , and we always called them The Gang when we talked about them privately , Anna and I. I felt so sophisticated and intellectual talking about Rimbaud and Baudelaire at two in the morning , to handsome young men with scholarships to the Sorbonne . |
| 10 | At first the Romans consolidated their position in central Italy , moving north only in the third-century BC , when the battle of Mediolanum in 222 BC won them the most important city on the Lombardy Plain . |
| 11 | ‘ I liked your family very much , but you deliberately gave them the wrong impression about me , ’ she said angrily . |
| 12 | And perhaps because of Chrysler 's ignominious retreat from our only volume car manufacturing plant , we spared the cars nothing — never once gave them the benefit of the doubt in the sort of conditions which could tear a wheel off a less rugged vehicle . |
| 13 | He also taught them the arts of circumcision and sub-incision , used to produce the traditional tattoos sported by Aranda menfolk . |
| 14 | In line with the Group of Eight 's decision in December 1988 to offer fair treatment to Latin American debtors , Brazil in January 1990 proposed that debtor countries with payments imbalances or shortages of hard currency ( such as Bolivia , Ecuador and Peru ) should convert their debt into local currency to pay for Brazilian imports and to finance cross-border ventures , and also offered them the possibility of buying back debt at a discount . |
| 15 | The champagne reception — at which Kylie began to demonstrate for the first time a new found confidence with both press and public — also gave them the perfect opportunity to milk their golden child 's latest achievement , three UK gold discs for ‘ Kylie ’ the LP , and the singles ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ and ‘ Got To Be Certain ’ . |
| 16 | These same people the , even when faced with the blatant facts of their mistakes , still hurl at the hapless retailer who unwittingly sold them the five 3″ goldfish that they tried to cram into a small glass bowl full of raw tapwater . |
| 17 | Taking a patronizing look at the newcomers , all aged only between seventeen and twenty and dressed in little check practice outfits , they decided that they looked childish and immediately nicknamed them the Tiller Babes . |
| 18 | The most important was the right to prevent any single investor from owning more than 15 per cent of the shares , which effectively gave them the right to veto a takeover bid . |
| 19 | I abruptly asked them the same question I had of Benjamin . |
| 20 | For working-class girls ( unlike middle-class girls , for whom comprehensives potentially offered them the academic education denied to many under the systems of 11 + weighting ) comprehensives probably made little difference . |
| 21 | Yet Town 's first real attack in the 28th minute almost gave them the lead . |
| 22 | In his absence , I afterwards asked them the same questions , and they were able to explain quite adequately . |
| 23 | You 'll have to go a very long way to find a series of more disparaging , gloom laden , negative reports , and this , in a season when Linfield 's performances actually won them the league ! |