Example sentences of "it [verb] them [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without trying looking very heavily at these type of sales , where savings plans have been sold for future mortgages , erm , the clients are left thinking it 's building up money for their , for their deposit , for their legal fees , and it guarantees them a mortgage at sometime in the future . |
| 2 | In a sense this Northern mythology asks more of men , even makes more of them , than does Christianity , for it offers them no heaven , no salvation , no reward for virtue except the sombre satisfaction of having done what is right . |
| 3 | It offers them an alternative to expensive air fares . |
| 4 | Cooke says : ‘ Egg pasta is certainly preferred by many chefs not only because of its excellent colour and flavour , but because it offers them the possibility of upgrading their pasta menus , thus increasing their profits . ’ |
| 5 | It cost them a fortune in both cases . |
| 6 | it cost them a bomb that did |
| 7 | United put profits before results last season and it cost them the Championship . |
| 8 | It allows them the monopoly to exploit their invention for a period without unauthorised limitation or competition . |
| 9 | This this this is because the the Department of the Environment lost the paperwork for a year erm because apparently the Home Office are un incapable of reading documents unless they 're in order , and they take them in order and it takes them a year to read them . |
| 10 | If you 're buying them as young plants which are probably a foot fifteen inches high then it takes them a couple of years to get the roots established . |
| 11 | It accords them a privilege from action for defamation , on the condition that they are made honestly . |
| 12 | It took them an hour to convince her that it would be all right to go , that she would not be disloyal to Peter ; but , finally she agreed that she might as well indulge the boy . |
| 13 | After a little while they got back to me and says right one 's finally broken down , the seventeen year old , it took them an hour and an half , we 've broke him down he 's admitted he 's done it . |
| 14 | I do n't think the men minded really you know , having these things inserted , it saved them a lot of trouble . |
| 15 | It gave them a bit of shade . |
| 16 | Once the French had worked out the tactic , it gave them a chance to run the ball back at us . |
| 17 | It gave them the pin for endless stories ; it gave them a myth . |
| 18 | Whatever it was , it gave them a sense of reverence , and services in these little churches always had a great spirit of worship . |
| 19 | It gave them a feeling of being special . |
| 20 | The New Towns Act , 1946 , provided for the designation of sites for New Towns ; the setting up of development corporations for their development ; and it gave them the range of powers they would use . |
| 21 | They joined in our events for young women , and devoured our publications , because it gave them the springboard for taking action themselves . |
| 22 | Not only did this save the horses the pull up the hill through the village , but it gave them the occasion for one more glimpse of Tamar and the children , who stood on the steps , waving . |
| 23 | The Greeks found this agnostic approach yielded a sense of presence and bliss that transfigured their lives : it gave them the discipline to apprehend a reality infinitely greater than they could conceive , even though at the same time its absence was acutely felt . |
| 24 | Indeed , Eleanor Rathbone condemned what she viewed as the selfishness of middle class women who , having got ‘ all they wanted for themselves out of the women 's movement when it gave them the vote , the right to stand for Parliament and the local authorities , and to enter the learned professions ’ , then sat back . |
| 25 | It gave them the pin for endless stories ; it gave them a myth . |
| 26 | Last January , it won them the Reader 's Digest /Prince 's Youth Business Trust Award '90 — worth £6,000 . |
| 27 | Mr Howe said : ‘ It was the only chance Arsenal had and it won them the match . ’ |
| 28 | I said well it gives them a bit of panache do n't it ? |
| 29 | Hey , look on the bright side , at least it gives them a head start for their biology GCSEs . |
| 30 | It gives them a purpose in life . |