Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] them the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | My all-time favourite remark was made by a visiting Chesterfield supporter who watched silently as his team prepared to take a penalty in the dying seconds of a game at Barnsley which would have given them the draw . |
2 | Had England held a few more catches , that could have won them the match ; as it was , an all-out total of 307 meant victory for West Indies by 134 runs . |
3 | It was the Edinburgh man 's only success from four attempts , and with Nick White failing with four attempts earlier in the game , the Scots squandered opportunities that should have won them the game comfortably . |
4 | The former county boroughs had preferred the unitary approach which would have made them the core of enlarged areas , but when a two-tier system was adopted it was obviously preferable from their point of view to obtain metropolitan district status and thus retain as many services as possible . |
5 | You could have hit them the moment they left the house . ’ |
6 | That would have lost them the election , even supposing that such an announcement would not also have alienated any working class Labour supporters . |