Example sentences of "[verb] them [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When Boniface wrote to other bishops , he had a way of invariably reminding them that Christian authority meant service .
2 In America they seem to hit them twenty five times
3 McCann refused to be nominated ; he took the quite accurate view that the meeting had been called in order to incorporate the militants , attach the lustre of their achievements to a new , more moderate group of leaders and thus deny them any significant influence .
4 Too large an increase in personal taxation could lose them votes and deny them further ministerial office .
5 Sir George Askwith , the Board of Trade 's Chief Industrial Commissioner , quickly persuaded Devonport to meet Harry Gosling and Harry Orbell , an influential official of the London Dockers , who were representative of both the executive of the Transport Workers ' Federation and the workers ' side of the Port of London Authority and to assure them that existing agreements would be maintained .
6 In the course of approval , LIFESPAN will make them all selected versions .
7 Owls ' eyesight is good in dim light but not so good in total darkness ; it is their acute hearing and the accuracy with which they can pinpoint sounds that make them such successful hunters .
8 Coral are unable to split the pair in ante-post betting for the title and make them 5–1 joint favourites .
9 erm he did n't think they had any bilingual signs and they did n't have they were n't using their Portakabins so they scrapped them all last year sold them off .
10 And they got the , well got them all new clothes
11 You got them lovely red berries
12 Have you given them all those potatoes ?
13 We 've given them five hundred pounds .
14 Large figure-of-eight shields were depicted on the walls of the East Wing of the Labyrinth , possibly to indicate that the building was under divine protection ; the dappled hides of which the shields were made presumably came from the bull , the sacred beast , and this may have given them additional prophylactic value .
15 I have dusted down others and given them sacrilegious new twists , incorporating nuts into rolypoly , for example , and using kumquats instead of lemons for old-fashioned Sussex Pond Pudding .
16 This should have given them several useful advantages , including the right to trial by jury .
17 ‘ You do n't have to worry about those sheep , Seb , they 're as snug as bugs in a rug out there , but I 've given them some more hay , just in case .
18 Whether MCC , his financial empire , really is going to cost bankers a lot of money is not yet certain , but it will surely given them some sleepless nights .
19 I know that three days before they were killed , twenty-five people were invited to that house for the mass whipping of a dealer from Sunset Strip who 'd given them some bad dope .
20 A centralised scheme would disrupt existing relationships between BIIBA members and their insurers , and lose them valuable financial advantages such as a no claims bonus .
21 If we ca n't answer them this very day , or in fact , if they do not occur to you this very day , but on subse quent occasions , of course , we will endeavour to answer the points a little later on .
22 But do n't tell me he is a United player , the kind who can win them that coveted crown .
23 If we send them that well-known telegram ‘ Send reinforcements .
24 she charged them two hundred pound yeah .
25 Since then the garage has been obliged to leave some of its cars on the lines because it can not display them any other way .
26 They can also demand that the rich countries build them adequate waste-treatment plants .
27 Radchenko is clearly the dangerman in a team whose away exploits have earned them previous European qualification .
28 The time may yet come when we shall have to face the bullets of our fellow workers in warning them that armed force is no remedy , whether in the hands of the capitalist or the worker .
29 Two organisations which we visited further emphasised the " non-regularity " of their temporary workers ' employment by not guaranteeing them any fixed number of hours per week — they were contracted to work " as and when required " — and this , of course , provided them with an important , additional source of flexibility .
30 It was very , very close , the difference was two or three big points , he just played them that little bit better . ’
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