Example sentences of "it [vb past] them a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they were half price , erm , it cost them a hundred and twenty nine quid I think |
| 2 | well it cost them a hundred thousand to do it , but , I mean he 's never been able to afford the |
| 3 | And it brought them a great try that , in the final analysis , won them the match . |
| 4 | However , it took them a long time to see an ally in the Poles . |
| 5 | THE drivers who moaned about the parking problems at the Genesis concert at Knebworth because it took them a long time to get out make me mad . |
| 6 | it took them a long time to begin with when he started . |
| 7 | It took them I ca n't remember how many hours but it took them a long time . |
| 8 | and then they informed me that it was out of stock so I wrote them rather a a polite letter saying that it took them a long to realize it was out of stock when it had been ordered in March and erm I thought their communi communicative system in their office was er non existent . |
| 9 | It took them a little while to pluck up courage to go along and when they did , they chose the Norfolk Gliding Club at Longstratton near Norwich . |
| 10 | It took them a few moments to find it . |
| 11 | Shortly afterwards PW held a meeting with the BCCI directors during which it gave them a comprehensive account of the frauds and malpractices . |
| 12 | The Act was welcomed by many old people because it gave them a regular income free from the taint of poor relief ; though many , rightly , criticized it for giving ‘ too little too late in life ’ , that little was more than had been given before . |
| 13 | It gave them a new sense of opening opportunity , a new reason for raising standards and expectations , new cause to doubt the wisdom of a system which excluded many children from the chance of a full academic education from the age of eleven , and a new hope . |
| 14 | Bacteriologists immediately recognised that it gave them a unique opportunity to study the evolutionary processes governing bacterial resistance — as a synthetic antibiotic it could not be influenced by preexisting resistance genes . |
| 15 | The ten-point margin reflected the Police 's overall superiority and it gave them a deserved triumph in only their second appearance in the final . |