Example sentences of "them a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He treated his established artists as professional associates , entering into legal contracts and paying them a regular income in advance against sales .
2 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 .
3 There 's no harm in using highly processed foods occasionally but it 's best not to make them a regular part of the family 's diet .
4 All you need is to give them a regular supply of food and water .
5 ‘ Most of the big clubs with three and four goalkeepers find it difficult to give them a regular game .
6 Ahead of them a burly figure was emerging into the street .
7 If undemanding schooling methods , supplemented by hours in front of cretinous , discontinuous TV programmes , have given them a thirty-second attention span , poor linguistic skills , therefore poor conceptualising and critical powers , and a craving for instant entertainment , then it will not matter what cultural policy a government adopts .
8 Our endorsement of Tory macro-economic policy , and acceptance that it should aim for no more than monetary stability , meant we were unable to offer them a convincing route to full employment or economic recovery .
9 The words were out before Isabel could stop them , despair and bitterness giving them a stark finality that was absolute .
10 During the second world war Burmese and Indonesian nationalists allied themselves with the Japanese , finding them a useful lever against the colonial power and in some ways preferable to it .
11 A group of young teenage girls once admitted to me that although they frequently complained because their parents insisted that they should be home by a certain time , they recognized that the deadline gave them a useful excuse for not getting out of their depth .
12 These attractive little bagrid are active during the day making them a useful addition to the mature , well-established and maintained planted community tank .
13 These are not intended to be prescriptive but centres may find them a useful resource in the delivery of the module .
14 These are not intended to be prescriptive but centres might find them a useful resource in the delivery of the modules .
15 His technique was to win women 's confidence with his charm , and to offer them a spiked drink .
16 Their strictures on the ‘ maximalism ’ of the Bolsheviks , on the ‘ premature ’ nature of the October revolution , and on the backwardness of Russia gave them a broad area of common ground with the liberal view .
17 He scored his fourth high-quality goal to get them a 6-6 draw with just two seconds remaining .
18 Properties they say a few years ago are down by 25 to 30% , that with lower mortgage rates gives them a tremendous boost .
19 Would you give them a key position of accountability in your team ?
20 Of course , this makes fishing for them a challenging business and it is one that absorbs a great many specialist anglers .
21 For maximum volume and root lift , turn your head upside down — the special ‘ fingers ’ inside the cup will help life and separate curls giving them a fuller look .
22 They could be viewed as the organ within the living organism whose task it was to supply the basic necessity of capital without any need to accord them a fuller role within the enterprise .
23 You call them a communist party ?
24 In another study George Bokert increased the degree of thirst in his subjects by not only depriving them of water for twenty-four hours , but also giving them a salty meal before going to bed .
25 I do n't give them a welcoming smile .
26 The durability of these cars makes them a prime target for clockers and is another reason to insist on up-to-date service schedules .
27 Their light weight and longevity , as well as their attractive appearance , makes them a prime contender for a cladding material in the appropriate setting .
28 He 's as short-sighted as a bat with its eyes shut , but with his goggles on he is a lousy attacker and without them a serious threat to our defence !
29 Only Swansea looked likely to offer them a serious test .
30 The Japanese are being made to suffer what is for them a serious loss of face in having to pull the plug on the fifteen-month-old Massachusetts-based operation set up to build and sell Intel i860 boxes under a five-year commitment to the project .
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