Example sentences of "[to-vb] them the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So there will be a slight improvement on that position but erm I do feel that we have to continue to do them the costume plays we ca n't just say oh we do n't make a profit on it , we ca n't do it , I think that would be a very shortsighted erm philosophy . |
| 2 | Even in her semi-conscious state she had been able to give them the phone number of her sister Margaret in Australia . |
| 3 | A couple who were kidnapped and pushed off a cliff in a burning car have asked a court to give them the pick-up truck in which they were abducted . |
| 4 | A GANG of five teenagers stole a 20-year-old woman 's cash card and then tortured her to give them the pin number . |
| 5 | Scrum-half Campbell converted to give them the half-time lead . |
| 6 | No , when you read the word ‘ love ’ in the Bible it means something completely different ; you do n't have to hug anyone , kiss anyone or call them Ermentrude to love them the Jesus way . |
| 7 | C they used to call them the horse boxes . |
| 8 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 9 | They wanted to call them the Milton Keynes or the Ipswich , but this was thought too cheeky a dig at Marshall and Celestion . |
| 10 | They wanted to call them the Milton Keynes or the Ipswich , but this was thought too cheeky a dig at Marshall and Celestion . |
| 11 | Everybody looked at me , waiting for me to show them the robot animal . |
| 12 | Most tournament players throw up blades of grass to tell them the wind direction and strength , which is ideal to copy . |
| 13 | I should like to have a good bath — I have n't had one for weeks — and something to eat , before you begin to cut me up as though I were one of your business opponents laid out for you to hand them the coup de grâce . ’ |