Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] them [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean they could 've given them a wee , a wee two bedroom around our w our way rightly . |
| 2 | No but you were saying before that had it worked it would 've given them a problem . |
| 3 | In theory , during this period their potential to adapt technology to source inputs locally ( as had occurred in Biafra during the civil war ) , rather than to import them might have given them a competitive edge over the large manufacturing companies managed and partly owned from overseas . |
| 4 | In so doing they will be building on their earlier writing experiences which should have given them a positive view of themselves as writers who are capable of making and receiving meanings using a variety of forms depending on audience and purpose . |
| 5 | Under the energetic leadership of H. L. Dowbiggin , Inspector-General from 1913 to 1937 , the police gained sophistication which may have given them a relative advantage over some lawbreakers . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Something must have given them a shake-up . |
| 8 | Although Mikhailichenko should have given them a 15th-minute lead , Marseille increasingly controlled the game . |
| 9 | But he agreed the police could have given them a few day 's notice of the situation . |
| 10 | The night 's events must have given them a very clear idea of the depth of local opinion . ’ |
| 11 | My all-time favourite remark was made by a visiting Chesterfield supporter who watched silently as his team prepared to take a penalty in the dying seconds of a game at Barnsley which would have given them the draw . |
| 12 | ‘ England 's batting , fielding and — apart from Emburey and Edmonds — their bowling proclaimed the lack of practice and resolve on a slow pitch which , had they been in the right frame of mind , would have given them an even chance of levelling the series , ’ asserted Wisden . |
| 13 | If the stranger had not been there , he would have given them an account of what had happened . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | they they get an allowance for somebody to clean and if they 've got a cleaner , I mean , they should have sacked them a long while ago ! |
| 16 | Had England held a few more catches , that could have won them the match ; as it was , an all-out total of 307 meant victory for West Indies by 134 runs . |
| 17 | Not only did the Bills fail to get the win which would have won them the AFC East division and secured home advantage throughout the play-offs , but finished the game with quarterback Jim Kelly nursing a knee ligament injury . |
| 18 | It was the Edinburgh man 's only success from four attempts , and with Nick White failing with four attempts earlier in the game , the Scots squandered opportunities that should have won them the game comfortably . |
| 19 | The former county boroughs had preferred the unitary approach which would have made them the core of enlarged areas , but when a two-tier system was adopted it was obviously preferable from their point of view to obtain metropolitan district status and thus retain as many services as possible . |
| 20 | He says that the hospital should have told them a new machine was n't being bought . |
| 21 | A Celtic pantheon of gods whirled about my head , and I may have got them a bit mixed up here . |
| 22 | United put up a brave fight and a little more luck in the second half might have brought them a goal . |
| 23 | That would have set them a puzzle , would n't it , if the fibres had come from one of them ? ’ |
| 24 | You could have hit them the moment they left the house . ’ |
| 25 | But poor goal kicking could have cost them a 20 – 19 win in the big game against the British Columbia U19s . |
| 26 | The plan of ‘ systematization ’ if it had been carried through would have left them the only repositories of folk-culture and architecture , since the threefold slogan ‘ Systematization — Modernization — Civilization ’ would have left little of what remained unscarred . |
| 27 | ‘ We should have beaten them a couple of weeks ago when we finished all square and I have every faith in the boys , ’ asserts Nelson , ‘ Since then we went very close against Tipperary and given the self-belief the team now possesses I think we can give a very good account of ourselves on Sunday . ’ |
| 28 | That would have lost them the election , even supposing that such an announcement would not also have alienated any working class Labour supporters . |
| 29 | ( Sheringham would have tested them a bit more ) . |