Example sentences of "[verb] them the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Someone in the audience has asked me to greet them the way the chimpanzees greet each other in the wild at Gombe , ’ Jane Goodall began . |
| 2 | ‘ You could dye them the same colour , ’ said Betty . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | The prison governor tells them they are about to be shot and offers them the choice of dying like men or wearing blindfolds . |
| 5 | It has become a familiar complaint of managers this season , dissatisfied that the ‘ brave new world ’ of the Premier League merely offers them the same problems as the old . |
| 6 | Sally Cline 's Women , Celibacy and Passion ( Deutsch , March , £15.99 , 0 233 98804 1 ) will reawaken the debate about sexual abstinence last seen in Liz Hodgkinson 's Sex Is Not Compulsory : Ms Cline identifies a new breed of passionate non-performers , ‘ women who believe that celibacy offers them the independence , the creative time and energy for their own growth and work which conventional sexuality has not allowed them ’ . |
| 7 | Whereas the Third Republic did set out to improve the aesthetic education of these citizens , the modern welfare State offers them the bread and circuses of culture as spectacle and entertainment . |
| 8 | But whatever age , Stow offers them the chance to meet up with old friends and catch up on the gossip . |
| 9 | Went to see them the other week |
| 10 | They always bring them the same day so there 's not much point in looking anywhere else . |
| 11 | They serve as a valuable corrective to approaches of the kind that a behaviourist view might encourage , approaches which impose conformity on learners , reduce the scope of their participation as persons , and deny them the exercise of individual initiative in the learning process . |
| 12 | He sees the deviant group as creating its own circumstances to the extent that it makes meaningful the societal reactions to it , or better generates meaning for itself in a world whose societal reactions deny them the full status of persons . |
| 13 | It has conveniently been handed over to the training and enterprise councils , but then the Government cynically deny them the resources to do the job . |
| 14 | How do we encourage membership when you openly deny them the right to vote ? |
| 15 | Keep them out and you deny them the chance to share in our unpopularity . |
| 16 | It 's wrong , Mr Deputy Speaker , if they 're living in this country erm on a semi-permanent basis and happen to have been here last October they 'll have a vote so will any everybody else who 's a citizen of the European union , so will peers of the realm who happen to be living elsewhere whether they 're in this country or outside this country under these regulations and previous regulations , have a vote in the European elections and I think it 's wholly wrong that erm citizens of other European countries namely France because that 's the one and it 's remarkable is it not that France is the one that 's gon na be the cause of this whole edifice collapsing if we do n't submit to their extra demands but citizens of France who are citizens living in their colonies , as I 've said in South America , the West Indies and the Pacific , will have a vote in the European elections on June the ninth and yet we have got citizens for whom we are responsible for in this house , we can not shirk it onto anyone else , we deny them the responsibility and I think it 's about time the house addressed this matter . |
| 17 | WHATEVER the home unions committee may care to think , the team who performed with great distinction in Paris are Lions to a man — and if the powers-that-be will not grant them the honour with a large ‘ L ’ they can hardly begrudge it with a small one . |
| 18 | On Wednesday evening , the Admiral looked in on the club after dinner and Amiss heard him say goodnight to the five , remarking that he had a little work to do in the office , after which he would get back home and turn in : he looked forward to seeing them the following day . |
| 19 | Worse still , the new Leeds are as sly and provocative as Don Revie 's sides , with none of the skills which made them the Liverpool of the Seventies . |
| 20 | This drug duo may have been singled out because their penchant for fine racehorses and private zoos , not to mention murder on a massive scale , made them the most public of the mafia bosses . |
| 21 | The popularity of Hollywood films made them the most obvious indicator of the general shift in world trade . |
| 22 | ‘ I think people get even angrier if they think about this precise thing that was done in their so-called formative years that made them the way they are . |
| 23 | In Germany , in July 1932 , the Nazi party won 230 seats in the Reichstag , which made them the majority party , although Adolph Hitler was not able to become the Chancellor until January 1933 . |
| 24 | The assurance with which Gothic schemes were presented made them the obvious alternative to Second Empire , but large secular Gothic buildings of this type were an unknown quantity . |
| 25 | A possible Trojan link was claimed by William of Jumièges for William the Conqueror as soon as he became king ; a late eleventh-century genealogy of the counts of Boulogne produced a similar conceit ; and Genealogy IV of the Counts of Flanders , written about 1120 , made them the most important non-royal family to trace its ancestry back to Priam . |
| 26 | What made them the ‘ vanguard of the world revolutionary movement ’ was the ‘ party of a new type ’ . |
| 27 | Sussex , though , are unlikely to be among the cynical chorus , not after their slip-up against the Minor Counties on a Marlow marsh made them the 14th first-class county in 55– or 6–overs play to have their colours lowered by junior opposition . |
| 28 | The third John Booth provided much of the capital for his partners , Samuel and Aaron Walker , when they established the business that eventually made them the leading ironmasters in the North of England . |
| 29 | The tiny Regency houses had no doubt been listed to spare them the attentions of developers ; from the state of the paving stones and the grass-studded cracks in the roadway , it seemed that the town council too had passed them by . |
| 30 | Of course , had the guilds and fraternities included a handling charge in their reckoning they might have attracted an income allowing them the freedom to purchase for themselves those ‘ extras ’ now being clamoured for . |