Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] them a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we were paying them a salary then of course it 's up to us whether we have them at sitting at home doing nothing , they would n't they 'd soon get bored with it . |
| 2 | THE campaigners who took their seasonal message to the banks yesterday were doing them a favour . |
| 3 | No , I thought she were giving them a pound and then taking change off them , she were getting change off them or summat were n't she . |
| 4 | ‘ The decision was to give them a lot of freedom , letting them take the pictures they liked so long as their interpretations were true to the general concept . |
| 5 | The object was to give them a sense of purpose and once they were harnessed to that proposition , they policed themselves , so to speak . |
| 6 | Hitherto , Blackpool 's aim had been to crush-load its trams to bursting-point , now the object was to give them a comfortable ride for their money . |
| 7 | Sharing photographs was to him an act of intimacy ; to show someone a photograph you took was to give them a ‘ deeper insight into you as well as what you discerned ’ . |
| 8 | and one of them was doing them a halfpenny cheaper ! |
| 9 | I recently asked Lord King of British Airways about his decision to buy Boeing aircraft and United States General Electric aero engines — not only that , but the fact that he was giving them a foothold in Britain at the expense of Rolls-Royce . |
| 10 | In the early stages it was finding them a deal , or moving them to the next level up . ’ |
| 11 | She was telling them a story , and they were sitting on either side of her on the sofa with their mouths hanging slightly open , Gawain meditatively fingering a lock of her long , dark hair , Damian staring at her and absently scratching his balls . |