Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] them a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they were little , whenever they had a cut or a graze and had to have the plaster taken off , which was painful , William 's grandad used to give them a treat first . |
| 2 | And then the men folk used to give them a bit of tobacco and stuff like that , mhm . |
| 3 | The Chancellor slapped an immediate ban on Business Expansion Schemes offering loans to investors , a device used to give them a quick payback worth the equivalent of as much as 30 per cent per year . |
| 4 | Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that |
| 5 | Used to get them a lot , but we have n't seen any for ages . |
| 6 | And I , but I used to get them a and pork chop , you know ? |