Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] them the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Then one day I discovered that he was borrowing them to show off at his dinners and returning them the next morning .
2 Without all these controls companies will still be making standard phone calls and writing them up afterwards into signed telephone logs and considering them the best records of a transaction .
3 The key issues for the future of the Association are sustaining the number of voluntary welfare workers and their helpers and giving them the financial and other support they need to deal with both increasing and more complex welfare needs .
4 But , crucially , Zurich backed up its service by appointing international business managers in all its main markets and giving them the right staff and resources , not least information .
5 It was liking someone one minute and hating them the next .
6 They have treated it as a cheap option , giving workers a minimum training and offering them the minimum resources and telling them to get on with it — basically because that 's good enough for the poor .
7 The–e be put with their mother into the greenhouse , but visiting them the next day found that only five chicks still had legs .
8 Typically , teen magazines like Smash Hits , were soon on the case and presented them as a ‘ new ’ band , although none went as far as dubbing them the customary , overnight success .
9 Throughout human history , disabled people have constantly confounded the low expectations of others , and how much better it would be for special educators to raise the expectations of disabled children and their families by giving them an understanding of this , by helping them to accept their disabled identities with pride , by helping them to understand their place in the world and their rights as well as giving them the practical skills to deal with these issues .
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