Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] them the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have seen Pop Will Eat Itself close up and seen in them the terrible cost of debauchery . |
| 2 | In the seminary library he came across the works of the medieval Franciscan theologian Duns Scotus [ q.v. ] , and almost instantly recognized in them the philosophical backing for his own instinctive perception of the uniqueness of each being and created thing . |
| 3 | Families may be placed high in these hierarchies for a variety of reasons — because they have brought with them the high status they had in their villages , because they have acquired status by helping new families settle here in the fifties and sixties and kept them in a state of perennial obligation , because they have gone up in class and ( as a Sikh woman in Newham told me ) ‘ claim status by pretending to be ultra-devout and criticising others who are less so . ’ |
| 4 | In most cases these families are poor , but they have brought with them the petit-bourgeois values of financially better-off days , and this has led to an apparently unquenchable materialism . |
| 5 | I have now received the draft Contract from the vendor 's solicitors and I have accordingly despatched to them the Preliminary Enquiries arising thereon and also my local search with East Herts District Council . |
| 6 | You know I did , I was entranced by them the other day . |
| 7 | Anything to avoid further reference to what had happened between them the previous evening ! |
| 8 | Erbani , Lorieux and Carminati in the pack are no strangers to the international arena with 75 caps between them , but Fouroux and his assistant coach Daniel Dubroca hope that the French will show willingness and enthusiasm for battle and put behind them the inept and inexplicable performance witnessed at Strasbourg . |
| 9 | If you can once get into Children a Love of Credit , and an Apprehension of Shame and Disgrace , you have put into them the true principle … |
| 10 | We have put to them the intimate questions teachers and parents are too afraid to ask . |
| 11 | By mid-1939 , in addition to finding places to live for children who arrived without guarantors , the committees had delegated to them the twice-yearly inspection of homes , arrangements for schooling and vocational training , and the task of sorting out any difficulties over religious education . |