Example sentences of "had [vb pp] them the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Those in the agricultural contracting business who had attended said that ATB courses had given them the confidence and skill to undertake these jobs . |
| 2 | I had given them the idea that maybe they would become torturers . ’ |
| 3 | They were married in February 1949 and Daphne Rye , who had given them the reception , encouraged Sybil to move into Pelham Crescent . |
| 4 | It had been Mme Guérigny 's and Montaine 's intimacy with the creatures of the forest that had given them the idea of hiding their deserter in the cave . |
| 5 | He was pondering how to chat him up without attracting too much attention from Blanche and Eddy , when he heard the superintendent ask the man from the Drugs Squad who exactly had given them the tip-off in the first place . |
| 6 | as if he read Wickham 's mind , Shildon wrapped up the discussion , said he had given them the important stuff and the rest could wait . |
| 7 | We had given them the prospect of an out in the five years and they did very well out of their investment . ’ |
| 8 | Willi had given them the briefest of explanations for their presence being required but they were becoming as alarmed as Gesner by this talk of lawsuits and the resignation of Franz Busacher . |
| 9 | Party members and SA men , who in 1933 had seen themselves as posing a radical , populist alternative to the conservative Reichswehr , now took a back seat and simply provided the setting for the triumphant reception of young officers of the Wehrmacht , heroes home on leave from the Front recounting tales of stirring deeds which had earned them the Ritterkreuz . |
| 10 | After the heavy rains of the past days I expected them to be full , and they were , a lot fuller than when I had seen them the year before . |
| 11 | It had belonged to a man called Flowers , and they had gone to Manchester just because he had offered them the flat . |
| 12 | Their initiative was thought to have been in response to an open letter published on Jan. 15 under the signatures of three former Presidents , the Archbishop of Bogotá , and the leader of the left-wing Patriotic Union Party ( UP ) , which had offered them the prospect of " society 's support … for less rigorous treatment " by the government if they released the estimated dozens of hostages they had seized over the previous two months and stopped drug trafficking . |
| 13 | By Thursday , some journalists were reporting that a Royal aide had told them the marriage was ‘ clearly not made in heaven ’ . |
| 14 | Neither Fedorov nor the man who had evaded them the other night had put in an appearance , and the chance of their doing so now seemed remote . |
| 15 | The reasonable interpretation of their experience seems to demand that by the time the chain had reached them the actual result of the observation had become fixed . |
| 16 | The mulatto who had greeted them the previous morning was not in evidence as Benny passed through the lobby , for which she was grateful . |
| 17 | With the usual lack of euphemism , the overseers enter the rubric ‘ Dead ’ against her name at the beginning of 1786 ; their accounts for 10 January indicate that it had cost them the grand sum of 3s. 9d. to bury three paupers : ‘ West Wife ; Titford and Robbans ’ . |
| 18 | The opposition parties blamed the scale of their defeat on the repeat of " miscalculations " and " lack of co-ordination " which , they claimed , had cost them the 1990 elections . |
| 19 | But he had left them the inestimable advantage of the eighty Normans on their strong horses . |
| 20 | But yesterday Mr and Mrs Lewis said they were disgusted at the situation , which had left them the victims . |
| 21 | By turning record-packers into talent scouts , magazine salesmen into managers , Branson had paid them the compliment of saying ‘ I trust you ’ . |