Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [verb] them [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trustingly she slipped a small hand into one of his , and she would have gone with him anywhere , but he detached her fingers after giving them a reassuring squeeze . |
| 2 | The court will not , however , read an ambiguity into clear words by giving them a strained or tortured meaning . |
| 3 | Dealers have talked their companies ' financial administrators into giving them an advance , then have left . |
| 4 | That did n't stop the enthusiastic chaps from giving them a sneak preview of three tracks hot off the tapes , so to speak . |
| 5 | He brought undue pressure to bear on his parents by giving them an entirely misleading account of the documents . |
| 6 | Mr Clarke and Mr Hunt told MPs the decision to break the law by dispensing with a 90-day consultation period was taken because of ‘ special circumstances ’ and in order to help the miners by giving them the best redundancy terms . |
| 7 | For six years up to the war , they had raised millions to help their German cousins and had absorbed over 60,000 refugees , not all of them living off charity by any means , but with the great majority owing thanks to Jewish organisations for giving them a new start . |
| 8 | That hand of mine wo n't go the right shape although I 've tried , I knew it would deform joints and so I put all my efforts into spreading them the opposite way , but I have n't won on that one , can you see ? |
| 9 | This implication will be made upon the basis that Parliament is not to be presumed to take away parties ' rights without giving them an opportunity of being heard in their interest . |
| 10 | He went on to criticize the Holy Office for acting as judge and jury when it condemned theologians without giving them an opportunity to know what they were accused of , or of responding . |
| 11 | Cope argued for a new theology in which the Creator has delegated His power to living things by giving them the ability to shape the future through their purposeful response to the environment . |
| 12 | FRANCE pursues a single-minded policy to promote families by giving them a large tax deduction for each child , in addition to an allowance for mothers who stay at home . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I was however able to amuse myself by annoying the stewardesses by buzzing them every five to ten minutes asking for a drink , hence the time I spent in the toilet . |
| 15 | History has played a cruel joke on the Somalis by giving them a culture of internal clan divisions in a world of centralised government and bureaucracy . |
| 16 | The USSR Supreme Soviet , in a resolution of Feb. 25 , declared that the decision by republican authorities not to hold the referendum violated citizens ' civil rights by denying them the right to vote . |
| 17 | In the old days , travel agents looked after their customers by finding them the best-value hotels at the required destination . |
| 18 | PEPs originally were designed as part of the Government 's plan to help more people become share owners by offering them the chance to invest in the Stock Exchange . |
| 19 | Once you 've finished with the Steamatic , allow your carpets to dry for 1–2 hours before giving them a good vacuum to remove any remaining dirt particles . |
| 20 | The reforms which might be expected from this theoretical starting-point are moves towards market mechanisms or some surrogate for them which can be used both to influence the behaviour of bureaucrats by giving them a different set of incentives , and to increase the range of choice available to the consumers of public — in this case particularly local government — services . |
| 21 | Three Valenciennes players have accused the French champions of offering them a 250,000 francs ( £33,000 ) bribe to lose a key game on May 20 , a few days before their European Cup final against AC Milan . |
| 22 | It is at least plausible that the cryptic advertisements widely adopted by cigarette advertisers in the UK work insidiously but effectively on children by offering them the reward of deciphering the hidden messages in ( for example ) the Benson & Hedges Pure Gold adverts : if they can understand and recognise them , they join an adult conspiracy or club . |
| 23 | This , of course , particularly has the benefit for residents of giving them a little extra space during the evenings and weekends when , generally speaking , day patients do not attend . |
| 24 | Finally , reward those who have read the papers by giving them the most opportunities to talk about the material and to express their views . |
| 25 | As Debord has commented : ‘ This society signs a peace treaty with its most outspoken enemies by giving them a spot in the spectacle . ' |
| 26 | ‘ And they 've let the Bravoes in given them a potential scandal that … |
| 27 | Britain can not get the best performance from our employees by giving them the worst treatment . |
| 28 | Few use licenses , for fear of creating future competitors by giving them a ‘ free ride ’ on ideas that can not adequately be recovered by the fee ( Magee , 1977 ) . |
| 29 | That said , you can add a new lease of life to old hard disks by giving them the once-over with Norton Disk Doctor or SpinRite . |