Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] them the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He erm , he left school , he only told them the day before . |
| 2 | Then I began to run into the guards , and every guard I saw , I did n't say anything , I just showed them the piece of paper which had written on it Hotel Intourist in Russian , and the phrase book . |
| 3 | So that stuck and eventually when that place folded and we came over here , er we just called them the Dollies and that was , they were referred to , everybody knew who they were , |
| 4 | The Virginia Company had itself produced a subsidiary company which occupied the islands at first known officially as Somers Islands — though when Shakespeare wrote The Tempest some people already called them the Bermoothes , and Bermuda it remained for posterity . |
| 5 | Lloyds was advertising its services as a small business adviser at the time , but the bank still lent them the money without any business plan and despite a survey report saying it was worth quite a lot less than the loan . |
| 6 | It grew to be a sort of gang , and we always called them The Gang when we talked about them privately , Anna and I. I felt so sophisticated and intellectual talking about Rimbaud and Baudelaire at two in the morning , to handsome young men with scholarships to the Sorbonne . |
| 7 | And perhaps because of Chrysler 's ignominious retreat from our only volume car manufacturing plant , we spared the cars nothing — never once gave them the benefit of the doubt in the sort of conditions which could tear a wheel off a less rugged vehicle . |
| 8 | He also taught them the arts of circumcision and sub-incision , used to produce the traditional tattoos sported by Aranda menfolk . |
| 9 | In line with the Group of Eight 's decision in December 1988 to offer fair treatment to Latin American debtors , Brazil in January 1990 proposed that debtor countries with payments imbalances or shortages of hard currency ( such as Bolivia , Ecuador and Peru ) should convert their debt into local currency to pay for Brazilian imports and to finance cross-border ventures , and also offered them the possibility of buying back debt at a discount . |
| 10 | Taking a patronizing look at the newcomers , all aged only between seventeen and twenty and dressed in little check practice outfits , they decided that they looked childish and immediately nicknamed them the Tiller Babes . |
| 11 | The most important was the right to prevent any single investor from owning more than 15 per cent of the shares , which effectively gave them the right to veto a takeover bid . |
| 12 | Yet Town 's first real attack in the 28th minute almost gave them the lead . |
| 13 | You 'll have to go a very long way to find a series of more disparaging , gloom laden , negative reports , and this , in a season when Linfield 's performances actually won them the league ! |