Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] them [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Severn Trent which held the record for disconnections last year , the chief executive , Roderick sold one hundred and thirty seven thousand shares at four hundred and eighty eight P under a share options scheme , and that was after buying them the same day , for two hundred and sixty two P . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He first became a player-manager at 28 and in his time the 41-year-old Buckley has won three promotions , the Bob Lord trophy with Kettering — and been sacked by Walsall after making them the highest scoring team in the four Divisions . |
| 4 | And they 're not just doing it for the money because , you know , if you just sort of give them a mundane task like trolleys for example , they 're banging on the door , you know , when can I get off this , when am I going to get some responsibility . |
| 5 | erm so er tt I think the other thing that 'll be nice if erm er given , if the first years are filling it in er in about a week and a half 's time , if we could if you could try and bash some of the data in fairly rapidly so that , you know kind of before the end of term we can , you know , kind of give them a brief digest of how , what , what the results were |
| 6 | I did think of paying them a non-means-tested benefit in exchange for abstention , but I 'm sure I 'd never get the figures past Margaret Beckett . |
| 7 | This has the positive advantage of giving them a broad-based appeal across a diversified range of industries and functions and always having somebody in the team who can potentially suit the chemistry of a particular client . |
| 8 | ‘ We will make sure they go to families who are capable of giving them a good home , ’ said Mrs Henderson . |
| 9 | Much as the regimes of Eastern Europe might welcome the support of their neighbours against Moscow — and hence a strengthening of such multilateral forums — they also view their neighbours as rival claimants to Moscow 's favour and are wary of giving them a greater voice in their own affairs . |
| 10 | I did their first demos with them , and took the opportunity of telling them a few facts of life , saying that while it was nice to play guitar , if at the end of the line they were all broke then they were going to be very unhappy musicians who had missed their chance to be big , and so they had better take care of certain realities and do it right away . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There was also disagreement over the proposal to improve benefits and entitlements for part-time workers , and the Commission was forced in June 1990 to postpone the idea of offering them the same rights , on a pro-rata basis , as their full-time counterparts . |
| 13 | Indeed , the type of man who organised local seamen 's societies in the 1870s 1880s and 1890s was often such as to give them a bad name . |
| 14 | In a recent case , the police posed as ordinary civilians in order to trap a shop owner , licensed to sell liquor by the case only , into selling them a few cans of lager and a bottle of wine . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | Most teachers want to work hard , and they will not generally use this exercise to con people into giving them an easy life . |
| 17 | But , but the other thing about giving them a standardised test at the re , when when they first arrived with us , is when you get the parent who comes and says well how they were level five in the primary school and you 've only given them level four ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And now , with the way that the human take it to the medical profession for giving them a longer life expectancy , thirty percent of people are diseased . |
| 20 | ‘ And they 've let the Bravoes in given them a potential scandal that … |
| 21 | Quite a number of the students knew no English when they arrived , and the first year was spent in giving them a working knowledge . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Now she began to wonder about that ; it could n't simply be because she 'd disliked him , since she 'd disliked clients before , but that had n't prevented her from giving them the same professional treatment she gave to everyone . |
| 24 | On Wednesday evening , the Admiral looked in on the club after dinner and Amiss heard him say goodnight to the five , remarking that he had a little work to do in the office , after which he would get back home and turn in : he looked forward to seeing them the following day . |
| 25 | No employer has a right to take the work of a man or a woman without paying them a living wage . |
| 26 | The Doctor had wanted to run straight back into danger , as was his wont , but she had persuaded him that on this occasion at least , some forethought and preparation would be a better idea than just leaving everything to chance and inspiration , particularly as the former seemed hell bent on giving them a hard time of things . |
| 27 | I 'll think of some way to ask Aunt Sarah or Uncle Nick what to do , without telling them the crazy part . |
| 28 | Nor will future researchers thank us for leaving them a vast amount of dross which makes the location and comprehension of useful material more difficult . |
| 29 | Resources will be identified by assigning them a unique user-defined code . |
| 30 | I am sure I could sting this town 's senile pensioners for a couple of quid , by selling them the old tea hut as firewood . |