Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] them a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally speaking , it is better for farm animals to give them a lot more space and a lot more variety in their environment . |
| 2 | ‘ If they do n't drive , then they ask their husbands to give them a lift . |
| 3 | Coding can be done by interviewers to give them a break and to sustain their interest , but is more usually done by special staff . |
| 4 | We 're also trying to find young , female African-American film-makers to give them a shot . ’ |
| 5 | IN THE ancient fable the frogs called on the gods to give them a king . |
| 6 | It 's no good just saying you can report fraud er to er t t to the regulator , they should also be responsible to the shareholders , the stake holders , everybody involved er in er er er a company er and in fact er they are n't they have really responsibility to no one except the directors er who appoint them , the company share holders are given very little information , the choice of auditors er is firmly in the director 's director 's hands , the depositors , the consumers , the employees er have no say er in the appointment of er auditors and more important the recent legal cases for instance and the Al Saudi Bank er er and Berg er sons er and company also decided that er auditors do n't owe a duty of care er to individual shareholders , potential investors , the current or potential creditors er even though that information is supposed to be there to help markets understand what is happening to that committee and the government showed no indication that it wants to reverse these judgements , it should reverse them , there should be specific responsibilities attached to er auditors to give them a duty of care er so that we get the information er and er spend more widely and the share holders and the stake holders know what 's going on er er er as well as er the bank or the financial er institution er itself . |
| 7 | hurdles , plus four hurdles to make them a square |
| 8 | Her attempts to teach them a step was hysterical . |
| 9 | Hungary has appealed to foreign zoos to find them a home . |
| 10 | ‘ You write up the more interesting parts of what they say and leave out the dull bits to do them a favour — if you like them . |
| 11 | Lovers must rely on the discretion of parents or ask friends to lend them a room . ’ |
| 12 | You might decide to offer Work Experience to pupils to give them a taste of working life while they are still at school , or you might offer a teacher a secondment to industry . |
| 13 | It is understood that the Birmingham-based van operation and Leyland lorry assembly plant in Lancashire have only enough brake and clutch assemblies to last them a matter of days . |
| 14 | The group that Portes subsumes under the heading of a dominant class are internally divided , but have enough in common for Portes to call them a class . |
| 15 | There was another Moses , a Midianite , who introduced the god Yahweh , a local volcanic god — ‘ a coarse , narrow-minded , local god , violent and bloodthirsty , he had promised his followers to give them a land flowing with milk and honey ’ . |