Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] 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 So I just gave them the statutory amount per tape
3 ‘ I liked your family very much , but you deliberately gave them the wrong impression about me , ’ she said angrily .
4 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 ’ .
5 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 .
6 I abruptly asked them the same question I had of Benjamin .
7 For working-class girls ( unlike middle-class girls , for whom comprehensives potentially offered them the academic education denied to many under the systems of 11 + weighting ) comprehensives probably made little difference .
8 In his absence , I afterwards asked them the same questions , and they were able to explain quite adequately .
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