Example sentences of "[vb past] them a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prestigious Wedgwood name also made them a propaganda target for Hitler 's forces . |
| 2 | The government could pick up anyone they wanted and prosecute at their leisure , if we made them a present of all those names . |
| 3 | And he slept with me , he would n't go to sleep so I took them both downstairs , made them a drink , made them something to eat , come back to bed . |
| 4 | The sums so entrusted made them a power among London houses subscribing to public loans , particularly during the wars of 1744–63 . |
| 5 | Anyway , when the ambulance men came we made them a cup of tea , cos they said they a they 'd have been that busy they have n't had a break ! |
| 6 | So we made them a cup of tea and hopefully they were going to talk her into it . |
| 7 | There was the lure of the big stores , though clothing coupons and shortage of money made them a feast for the eye only . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's a tricky one to answer because the complexities are still there but we made them a lot more hidden . |
| 9 | The conduct of the foresters made them a by-word for oppression and extortion . |
| 10 | The Parrot was one of their more recent acquisitions , and when Huey made them an offer , they took it . |
| 11 | For the next three hours the motorbike led them a nightmare chase over more than a hundred kilometres of mountain roads that were often little more than channels covered by scree and loose gravel , furrowed by rain-water and ridged by surfacing strata of rock . |
| 12 | Then the local centre for the handicapped lent them a wheelchair , so they were able to get out and about . |
| 13 | There were few holidays , or trips to the famous surf of the Australian beaches , until friends of the family lent them a house by the sea in later years . |
| 14 | They looked back at him with the bright eyes of rats in old people 's faces and when he asked them a question . |
| 15 | And Jesus asked them a question , he says to them , why are you so timid ? |
| 16 | But after her shower she asked them a lot of questions about safety in the factory . |
| 17 | some of them , some of them he said , I forget what we took we got them a bottle of Coke did n't we ? |
| 18 | They said they would not let my back into the village until I got them a ration card and some wheat . |
| 19 | While United threw away a hatful of chances Luton had two shots on target in the first half and hit the jackpot with one of them as Kerry Hughes got them a goal . |
| 20 | I mean in in the midweek game against us he had very little play and then he produced one ball that got them an equalizer and I suppose that 's what Frank would look for now . |
| 21 | Page promised them a wedding night at Crathorne Hall Hotel and an invitation to a Boro game of their own choice . |
| 22 | Well we promised them a week in Bali , did n't we ? |
| 23 | The Banks promised them a career path which never materialised . |
| 24 | He built them a pagoda of solid jade and embellished it with precious gems — not realising that to grow up a dragon must accumulate its own hoard , must steal it from Emperors and princes . |
| 25 | My wide feet found them a bit tight , but I swapped the footbeds for the Sanmarco ones , which are much thinner , and both pairs then fitted me better — a leaf taken from Merrell 's book . |
| 26 | In the meantime , however , those long horns had become undesirable : drovers and slaughterers found them a nuisance and they compounded the drawbacks that had already become apparent in Bakewell 's breed . |
| 27 | Schofield found them a rehearsal room at Middleton Cricket Club where his father was on the committee . |
| 28 | Mrs Lennox found them a pail and a large enamel container . |
| 29 | Actually I found them a lot more convenient than |
| 30 | But in the 1950s , with the first wave of postwar affluence , young people in transition began to have money and the adman found them a place in the consumer society . |