Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] them the " in BNC.

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1 I 've got , you gave me some last time and I 'd got them the week before , so I 've got enough .
2 After the heavy rains of the past days I expected them to be full , and they were , a lot fuller than when I had seen them the year before .
3 I had given them the idea that maybe they would become torturers . ’
4 Erm er this o this one is not one single job as it happens but it is the kind of thing that we have come up against before and I 've put them the things together in one so that we do n't identify people really under the circumstances .
5 I have given them the danger peak flow value of 100 , and if it falls below this they will come to casualty .
6 An authoritarian stance is taken to be evidence of the younger staffs lack of experience of the harsh realities of industrial and agricultural life which has denied them the appreciation of the ‘ insider ’ .
7 The ANC described the membership of the five MPs ( who were subsequently expelled from the DP ) as formalizing a " long-standing relationship which has earned them the greatest respect " and as underlining the ANC 's commitment to " a truly non-racial South Africa " .
8 Their initiative was thought to have been in response to an open letter published on Jan. 15 under the signatures of three former Presidents , the Archbishop of Bogotá , and the leader of the left-wing Patriotic Union Party ( UP ) , which had offered them the prospect of " society 's support … for less rigorous treatment " by the government if they released the estimated dozens of hostages they had seized over the previous two months and stopped drug trafficking .
9 Party members and SA men , who in 1933 had seen themselves as posing a radical , populist alternative to the conservative Reichswehr , now took a back seat and simply provided the setting for the triumphant reception of young officers of the Wehrmacht , heroes home on leave from the Front recounting tales of stirring deeds which had earned them the Ritterkreuz .
10 But yesterday Mr and Mrs Lewis said they were disgusted at the situation , which had left them the victims .
11 Three thousand members of the British Shops and Stores Association ( which , since last Autumn has incorporated NARF ) , were invited to nominate the flooring manufacturer who has given them the best service .
12 ‘ You might n't have thought so if you 'd seen them the next day , ’ said Toby .
13 Somewhere and somehow she 'd given them the slip , shinned down the mat of Virginia creeper in the darkness and scuttled across the lawn to hide .
14 Well would you perhaps like to give them a , a ring to , to say what I spoke about today then I 'll give them a ring , say if you could ring them tomorrow then I 'll ring them er er tomorrow evening a as well and then perhaps I can , you know , they , you 've given them the ground work to actually er for me to ring as well and then I can discuss with him and arrange an appointment to go and see him is that okay ?
15 Less entrancing , I suppose , if you 've got them the other way round .
16 Neither Fedorov nor the man who had evaded them the other night had put in an appearance , and the chance of their doing so now seemed remote .
17 They were married in February 1949 and Daphne Rye , who had given them the reception , encouraged Sybil to move into Pelham Crescent .
18 The mulatto who had greeted them the previous morning was not in evidence as Benny passed through the lobby , for which she was grateful .
19 She 's bought them the where they it was like two pieces .
20 But next to the Dance Hall if we 'd given them the licence to ha turn the cinema into a Dance Hall , there was this little old boy who lived just the other side of the road , in an old cottage , and he was over eighty .
21 When an animal is brought in , especially an otter which is very nervous , we 've taught them the basic techniques of how to save them .
22 It 's too easy , I think , to assume that women are n't aggressive and are sensitive and men are more aggressive and less sensitive because that 's the way society has wanted them to be in the past and children have grown up and lived up to those stereotypes , so I do n't think we can actually say yet that women can offer anything distinctive until we 've given them the chance to be themselves really .
23 We had given them the prospect of an out in the five years and they did very well out of their investment . ’
24 God placed the enforcing of Satan 's defeat in the hands of His servants and He has given them the authority .
25 West Indies , for their part , are simply playing their own game and , since it has made them the most powerful team in the world , can not see why they should deprive themselves of their trump cards just because other countries can not produce trump cards of their own .
26 They were determined to confront the English Heritage inspector , but it soon became clear he 'd given them the slip .
27 And he , of course he 'd taken them the day before .
28 You 'd travel down to the game on a Saturday , and if you met a Leeds fan at the train station , you could be sure that they were the best mate he 'd ever had , and they 'd tell you all the latest gossip that he 'd told them the last time they were out for a few pints .
29 He had n't given them the satisfaction of firing him there and then ; he 'd shown them the contempt he felt for them … let them suffer !
30 With the usual lack of euphemism , the overseers enter the rubric ‘ Dead ’ against her name at the beginning of 1786 ; their accounts for 10 January indicate that it had cost them the grand sum of 3s. 9d. to bury three paupers : ‘ West Wife ; Titford and Robbans ’ .
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