Example sentences of "[vb pp] them [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 You feel like you 've heard them a couple of hundred times when it 's only been twice .
2 A local garage owner has leant them a car to help in the short term .
3 Original by the look of it , and so were the banisters , but someone had painted them a kind of snot green .
4 We 've given them no bother as far the union is concerned — they 've had a free hand and we feel severely let down
5 Iron Josh had certainly given them no trouble when they had driven into his yard at the back of Old George 's Street and ordered him to climb into the cart .
6 In short , Labour and the Liberal Democrats will have the argument won for them on the ground — and as long as they locate their policies in terms of wealth creation , rather than punitive redistribution , the current election election result has given them a platform from which effectively to challenge for power next time round .
7 Not because she was scared of snakes , but because she had n't given them a thought .
8 and given them a dish of trifle I think a lot would have just eaten the trifle , had a cup of tea and taken the rest home .
9 ‘ I would have preferred to have given them a run chase but I then decided we had to be positive and get whatever we could out of the match , ’ said Moxon .
10 We have given them a grant , er a couple of years ago .
11 Finally , after he had given them a pledge supported by the oaths of Danish leaders , they completely rejected Edmund 's brothers and sons and denied that they were kings .
12 One because the nation was sort of a people who had seen themselves homeless from these start and God had given them a home so they took special care of sojourners and aliens , and secondly , I think , because they had an enlightened attitude towards debt .
13 No but you were saying before that had it worked it would 've given them a problem .
14 Furthermore , Matthew stresses that the task of telling men the good news and ‘ baptising them into the possession of the Holy Spirit will only De theirs after the cross and resurrection have given them a gospel to proclaim and a Spirit to receive ( 28:19 ) .
15 The bitterness of repeated daily confrontation with left-wing majorities has given them a steeliness entirely absent from the old-fashioned candidates .
16 His father had given them a lecture on the evils of saddlery repair bills .
17 I 'm not sure if she said tha that Rosie had , had given them a lecture or something once , then I said oh !
18 gives new task to computer group whose supervising nursery nurse has given them a task which is too difficult ;
19 Something must have given them a shake-up .
20 Trailing 6-3 , Cardiff won a last-chance scrum on the Swansea line and the players pressured Hall into running the ball rather than going for a drop goal which would have given them a draw .
21 The standard answer , given with that gleam of superiority that the young delight in , was , ‘ No , Dr Clarke , they are not suitable because you have given them a blood transfusion . ’
22 Of the two passengers , both women , one had turned and given them a glare , the other pretended nothing was going on .
23 I mean they could 've given them a wee , a wee two bedroom around our w our way rightly .
24 This has given them a movie picture of the structural changes , built up from snapshots taken only a few seconds apart .
25 Already he was worried about their stores lasting until the Saturday when he might reasonably claim a few shillings to tide him over ; Emily 's mother had given them a box of stuff , sausages , bread , some tea , butter , bacon — but it would have to be spun out .
26 So you believe either that Americans are prone to think conspiratorially or that their government has given them a lot of unbelievable explanations for incredible conduct .
27 you know , if you sh given them a slide show that 's all very well but , they may well want to look at some of the pictures for longer .
28 The Serbs , however , had learned something from their experiments , and the taste of self-government , however limited , had given them a self-confidence which could not be crushed by the cruelty of their new masters .
29 If we need people with financial experience and managerial experience , then appoint them to the local to the Police Committee , given them a job to do , they 're the ones that are should advise the Chief Constable and the Police Committee as to whether they 're spending the right of money on computers and are using it properly , not whether they 're using them operationally correctly .
30 Yeah , but the thing is right , they , that 's because they 're criminally insane any way , it may have given them an idea but it does n't mean that that women or whoever it might not of died any way .
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