Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] them the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhere and somehow she 'd given them the slip , shinned down the mat of Virginia creeper in the darkness and scuttled across the lawn to hide . |
| 2 | They were determined to confront the English Heritage inspector , but it soon became clear he 'd given them the slip . |
| 3 | But next to the Dance Hall if we 'd given them the licence to ha turn the cinema into a Dance Hall , there was this little old boy who lived just the other side of the road , in an old cottage , and he was over eighty . |
| 4 | I 've got , you gave me some last time and I 'd got them the week before , so I 've got enough . |
| 5 | He had n't given them the satisfaction of firing him there and then ; he 'd shown them the contempt he felt for them … let them suffer ! |
| 6 | And he , of course he 'd taken them the day before . |
| 7 | He was pondering how to chat him up without attracting too much attention from Blanche and Eddy , when he heard the superintendent ask the man from the Drugs Squad who exactly had given them the tip-off in the first place . |
| 8 | I had given them the idea that maybe they would become torturers . ’ |
| 9 | It had been Mme Guérigny 's and Montaine 's intimacy with the creatures of the forest that had given them the idea of hiding their deserter in the cave . |
| 10 | Those in the agricultural contracting business who had attended said that ATB courses had given them the confidence and skill to undertake these jobs . |
| 11 | They were married in February 1949 and Daphne Rye , who had given them the reception , encouraged Sybil to move into Pelham Crescent . |
| 12 | We had given them the prospect of an out in the five years and they did very well out of their investment . ’ |
| 13 | After the heavy rains of the past days I expected them to be full , and they were , a lot fuller than when I had seen them the year before . |
| 14 | Their initiative was thought to have been in response to an open letter published on Jan. 15 under the signatures of three former Presidents , the Archbishop of Bogotá , and the leader of the left-wing Patriotic Union Party ( UP ) , which had offered them the prospect of " society 's support … for less rigorous treatment " by the government if they released the estimated dozens of hostages they had seized over the previous two months and stopped drug trafficking . |
| 15 | It had belonged to a man called Flowers , and they had gone to Manchester just because he had offered them the flat . |
| 16 | By Thursday , some journalists were reporting that a Royal aide had told them the marriage was ‘ clearly not made in heaven ’ . |
| 17 | By turning record-packers into talent scouts , magazine salesmen into managers , Branson had paid them the compliment of saying ‘ I trust you ’ . |