Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] them the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It posed for them the question , ‘ Are we still the people of God ? ’
2 I er I forgot about them the night before and I forgot to tell her about it last night so .
3 Mr Dixon could hardly believe his ears as Hank poured into them the story of the book and its apparent success .
4 Fincara cried , and light flared over them the woman 's laughing face , and Adam 's burning blindness .
5 The two men , one called Willie and the other called Arthur , were standing with their caps on , and as she walked towards them the man called Mike , the big one , said to her , ‘ Sorry I was rough on you , miss . ’
6 She lavished upon them the sort of affection she would have given to her family had there been any .
7 These were Alexander II 's only real choices , but before he decided between them the notion of tying the provinces more closely to the centre had to be ruled out of court .
8 When the vote went against them the Poles simply marched in and took by force the areas they considered rightfully theirs .
9 There is a theory that they brought with them the ancestors of the naturally polled northern breeds such as the Angus and Galloway , but in fact there had been polled cattle in Britain since the Iron Age and they were not necessarily imported — not even from Scandinavia , where many cattle are polled .
10 They took with them the word ‘ Tabernacle ’ which came to mean in architectural terms a building in rectangular shape , with a Greek temple frontage outside and inside , little decoration and preaching in the conservative , earthy , evangelistic and Calvinistic tradition .
11 Jack Gaster and Dr Cullen , the two leading members , took with them the Poplar , Wood Green and Harrow branches and some 50 members of the Party .
12 they go on about Shakespeare and Chauce Chaucer but if you spoke to them the way Chaucer used to speak they would n't understand a word you were saying .
13 Consequently , all visitors entering the Exhibition Room on Survey days were approached by a member of the Library 's staff who outlined to them the object of the exercise and invited them to complete a questionnaire .
14 All were shabby ; all had about them the cleanliness of icy well-water , spoiled and fetid with the reek of the city , that nothing but fire could dispel .
15 They were beasts , not men , but they had about them the features of nightmare , of ghosts , and though she recognized the animals of the forest in limbs , teeth and eyes , what struck her most powerfully was the element of madness in them .
16 This ensured that all participants , when not presenting their own version , had before them the narratives of each of the other groups .
17 They met General Morandi , a soldier of fortune who had fought at Missolonghi , and who indignantly denied to them the calumny put about by the British aristocracy that Byron had deteriorated morally while in Greece : ‘ He was magnificent , ’ the General told them .
18 Kuusinen quoted to them the obligations imposed by the Whitsun Conference decision : We propose that the following questions be raised for discussion in all the organisations of the ILP. ( l ) What concrete mass actions on the basis of the united front of the C.P.G.B. and the ILP can and must be carried out in the near future with the aim of a successful struggle for a 10% wage increase , against the Means Test , and other similar partial demands advanced by the C.P.G.B. and the ILP ? ( 2 ) Is it desirable for the ILP to join the Communist International as a Party sympathising with Communism with the right to a consultative vote … ?
19 I impressed on them the need to bring independence to Namibia and progress in South Africa .
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