Example sentences of "them the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gave them the afternoon and she said , Oh that was lovely Mrs . |
| 2 | We tell them the price because we know the price almost immediately . |
| 3 | You must tell them on the phone after telling them the price and what it 's all about you say , Right when I come round tomorr er whenever to er strike up the deal with you I want the contract signed I need a thirty five percent of the first year 's payment as a deposit cheque . |
| 4 | I just wan na find out who was writing them the letters and then I can finish . |
| 5 | Again , these gave them the advantage when it came to the swift ‘ attack-and-run ’ tactics which they frequently employed . |
| 6 | If I 'd had control over everything I would have had a full Wales tour in the summer and then we would n't have needed to have the practice games , but as it is we are giving them the advantage and I wanted to try to do something about that . ’ |
| 7 | While this exchange was going on , Rodrigo had allowed certain of his men to desert to the other side , taking with them the story that El Cid was about to escape by night through one of the passes . |
| 8 | He believes that about a million new households will form in the South-east by 2001 , most of them the sons and daughters and new elderly of the region itself . |
| 9 | During the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries tenants throughout the realm had found that custom did not always give them the protection that they believed they had . |
| 10 | To care for , teach and train a child , giving them the love and discipline they need in a secure home , requires all the intelligence and skill a woman possesses . |
| 11 | The first women doctors and lawyers , the women artists and writers , the politicians and trades unionists , the women who came out as lesbians ; and before them the witches and the suffragettes : the paths we walk so freely are paths they laid down for us . |
| 12 | Not for them the Pimms and champagne . |
| 13 | Whereby erm we do n't end up actually doing the things for them , but we show them the way that they can do them for themselves . |
| 14 | In July 1683 the University of Oxford issued a judgment condemning certain doctrines thought to be " destructive to the kingly government " , amongst them the views that " civil authority is derived originally from the people " , that resistance to tyrants was legitimate , and that England was a mixed monarchy , with sovereignty vested in the King , Lords and Commons . |
| 15 | Mm well you gave them the size and you checked the size . |
| 16 | Not for them the comprehensibility or even the logic spelt out by the Prime Minister shortly after his election as leader of the Conservative party when he rightly said that there was something wrong with a tax that resulted in 50 per cent . |
| 17 | Between them the scientists and philosophers set out to explain a universe , which , after the muddle of the Dark or Middle Ages , seemed to be flooded with clear light . |
| 18 | The Court of Appeal held that he had appropriated the goods for the purposes of theft when he showed them the goods and invited them to buy . |
| 19 | I have passed on to them the teaching and worship tapes sent on to e here and they have asked me to thank you sincerely and they ask you to continue to pray for them . |
| 20 | In them the racks and shelves were filled with clothes made in the factory here . |
| 21 | The sharpest contrast is with migrants who have brought with them the expectation that sons will bring their wives into the homes of their parents , where in some sense the wives will be under the authority of their mothers-in-law . |
| 22 | He opened his lips , struggling to put off the pride and bitterness that held him mute ; but the slight rustle of the tapestry at the door spoke first , and eloquently , and when he looked up David was gone , leaving still silent on the air between them the name that was not to be spoken . |
| 23 | But we would probably sell them the name if they come up with a reasonable offer . ’ |
| 24 | The police spent two days trying to persuade the butcher to give them the name or names of his supplier . |
| 25 | I think that 's probably come down through the years and things are still that way for musicians : get them as cheap as you can and never give them the credit that they deserve . ’ |
| 26 | Things are still that way for musicians : get them as cheap as you can and never give them the credit that they deserve |
| 27 | And then er working with them the tractor and binder did the cutting and that and we did the cutting and the leading . |
| 28 | Beneath her window she could see the white humps of the pot in her backyard — pots that in summer she filled with geraniums and petunias in an effort to bring some colour to the uniform greyness , beyond them the wall that bordered the yard was also white-crusted . |
| 29 | Tunnard ( 1989 ) makes some excellent suggestions about ways this can be achieved , including : improving ways of providing emergency protection for children at times of crisis by drawing upon the support of the extended family and local community ; involving parents in decision making , providing parents ' representatives and encouraging the development of local support groups ; improving what happens after separation by offering children and families choices about what can be done , and ensuring contact is promoted and maintained ; dealing with sexual abuse cases in ways that help non-abusing parents to avoid taking a defensive position and that give them the resources and support they need to be able to protect their children . |
| 30 | It grew to be a sort of gang , and we always called them The Gang when we talked about them privately , Anna and I. I felt so sophisticated and intellectual talking about Rimbaud and Baudelaire at two in the morning , to handsome young men with scholarships to the Sorbonne . |