Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] them the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third John Booth provided much of the capital for his partners , Samuel and Aaron Walker , when they established the business that eventually made them the leading ironmasters in the North of England . |
| 2 | It has become a familiar complaint of managers this season , dissatisfied that the ‘ brave new world ’ of the Premier League merely offers them the same problems as the old . |
| 3 | The most prominent families had no objection to service — it had long offered them the surest route to power , wealth , and prestige . |
| 4 | It is not hard to portray the BR of the eighties Monty Python style with such stupidities as creating a semi-autonomous Cornish Railways with great enthusiasm one year only to abandon them the next as though that were equally great progress . |
| 5 | If they want their own snappy one they would , you 're quite right , it 's not necessarily handing them the bad one on a plate just in case they might use it . |
| 6 | Admittedly the referee was a foolish fellow who kept re-penalising Swansea for failing to retreat 10 yards when he did not give them the remotest chance to do so . |
| 7 | He explained that children came to Cedars when their own school could not give them the individual help with basic skills which they needed . |
| 8 | Certainly such people existed , but the man who allowed his mind and soul to be ruled by their existence had already handed them the better part of the argument . |
| 9 | I 'll get instead of fifties and fucking we just give them the five pound |
| 10 | Why not join them the next time your barometer begins to fall rapidly ? |
| 11 | Individualism of this variety strives to put individuals in their social context , but nevertheless gives them the last laugh . |
| 12 | Arsenal 's mastery of the First Division was already making them the best-loved , best-hated club . |
| 13 | So I just gave them the statutory amount per tape |
| 14 | Dr Neil — he 's Stair Cochrane 's younger brother — he works for the poor in an East End practice — ’ Her voice almost broke when she said his name , and her mama knew immediately that Sally-Anne was not telling them the whole truth about her East End adventures . |
| 15 | The mannikin skipped over to show them the unexpected addition to his ghastly collection . |
| 16 | And you just hammer them the poor old cloth workers they 've got used to me now , they had an awful fit at the time , you ca n't do that . |
| 17 | They always bring them the same day so there 's not much point in looking anywhere else . |
| 18 | Business fliers fly with the airline that will most quickly give them the necessary coupons to go to , say , Hawaii with the family . |
| 19 | ‘ I liked your family very much , but you deliberately gave them the wrong impression about me , ’ she said angrily . |
| 20 | When we got into the studio , I got Gibson to send a few guitars down for a try-out and I ended up using them the whole way through the album . |
| 21 | they 're about the same , so when the hundred gram bar has got the extra ten per cent it 's it 's just just makes it the better bargain , er , they 're not losing much on that cos they save on the wrapping , so it probably costs them the same |
| 22 | The champagne reception — at which Kylie began to demonstrate for the first time a new found confidence with both press and public — also gave them the perfect opportunity to milk their golden child 's latest achievement , three UK gold discs for ‘ Kylie ’ the LP , and the singles ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ and ‘ Got To Be Certain ’ . |
| 23 | These same people the , even when faced with the blatant facts of their mistakes , still hurl at the hapless retailer who unwittingly sold them the five 3″ goldfish that they tried to cram into a small glass bowl full of raw tapwater . |
| 24 | When readers have written in , worried about whether to tell about a secret lover , you 've so often given them the excellent advice : ‘ Keep mum ’ . |
| 25 | Alejandro caught me stealing out to water them the first night . |
| 26 | Because obviously if you had one particular factory on the tideway and another producing an identical product and identical effluent in one of the tributaries , you could n't treat them the same because they 're patently different cases . ’ |
| 27 | I mean erm and sometimes of course you ca n't give them the practical help they need , you know , |
| 28 | Well give them the hundred quid then . |
| 29 | Someone is sure to ask you how long it takes to knit a jumper , but do n't tell them the exact number of hours and minutes , or they will expect their jumper by tomorrow ! |
| 30 | Well you could n't find them the other day , you said they were n't there did n't you ? |