Example sentences of "not [vb infin] them the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Admittedly the referee was a foolish fellow who kept re-penalising Swansea for failing to retreat 10 yards when he did not give them the remotest chance to do so . |
| 2 | He explained that children came to Cedars when their own school could not give them the individual help with basic skills which they needed . |
| 3 | Why not join them the next time your barometer begins to fall rapidly ? |
| 4 | Because obviously if you had one particular factory on the tideway and another producing an identical product and identical effluent in one of the tributaries , you could n't treat them the same because they 're patently different cases . ’ |
| 5 | I mean erm and sometimes of course you ca n't give them the practical help they need , you know , |
| 6 | Someone is sure to ask you how long it takes to knit a jumper , but do n't tell them the exact number of hours and minutes , or they will expect their jumper by tomorrow ! |
| 7 | Well you could n't find them the other day , you said they were n't there did n't you ? |