Example sentences of "them the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gave them the afternoon and she said , Oh that was lovely Mrs . |
| 2 | Below them the vestibule was lit , dimly , by the electrolier , in which only two candles had bulbs in them . |
| 3 | There was logic in this distinction ; for if the duties of a vassal were such as Fulbert defined them , then in fulfilling them the fidelis whose estates were close to those of his lord would have to make many sacrifices , while for one who lived several days ' journey away , not making a nuisance of himself would be a relatively painless matter . |
| 4 | This presence in and with the community was to them the sign of the kingdom of God on earth . |
| 5 | This is particularly noticeable in Picasso 's drastic treatment of the human body in the series of paintings under discussion ; in some of them the subject 's limbs are abruptly truncated . |
| 6 | And despite the suits , which give them the air of ex-cons , just out from a time-warping jail sentence , they also seem younger than their 50 years apiece . |
| 7 | They overwhelmed their poor owners and gave them the air of refugees , caught between the darkness and the high wire fence . |
| 8 | Paul doubted it , and his fears were confirmed when the assistant told them the price . |
| 9 | ALWAYS call a restaurant first to ask them the price of an average meal . |
| 10 | because you can tell them the price the size what |
| 11 | We tell them the price because we know the price almost immediately . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This means that although the State is an external , exploitative body it is not seen as such by the people who , on the contrary , see it as a kind of beneficent organism which ‘ gives ’ them the land on which they depend . |
| 14 | The English liberals studied their seventeenth-century predecessors with great attention — Wordsworth frequently refers with enthusiasm to Milton and Algernon Sidney — but for them the land of the free was on the other side of the Atlantic . |
| 15 | The residents complain to the city council that gave them the land — and discover that it has now designated the area as a garbage dump . |
| 16 | The Mexican Government wanted to pretend that it was not the army that guaranteed them the land . |
| 17 | Well you , you could do the sort of token gesture of giving them the land like they did in the past , at least that 's showing what some sort of communism |
| 18 | All they need is the planning permission and certainly the landowners will sell them the land , and if we put in stringent rules and regulations then we could control it properly . |
| 19 | John was a catalyst who gave them the exposure . |
| 20 | Around them the darkness was absolute , the silence oppressive . |
| 21 | Some others , though , among them the winner in Paris in two Sundays ' time , will be mysteriously gathering rather than losing strength . |
| 22 | We have to be fair , we 've got to give them the compensation . |
| 23 | For both of them the landscape in which they now stood was quite unrelated to any of this . |
| 24 | Brackenbury was kindly , and had always shown them the courtesy due to their rank — and himself as their ally . |
| 25 | By Thursday , some journalists were reporting that a Royal aide had told them the marriage was ‘ clearly not made in heaven ’ . |
| 26 | They were turning out into the village street again now , leaving behind them the stone ranks of the dead , with their propitiatory offerings of flowers and foliage . |
| 27 | To give them the benefit of the doubt , this may well be necessitated by their unique position , but at times it appears alarmingly like arrogant behaviour . |
| 28 | The career support scheme , which would be voluntary , would put people seeking advice in touch with others who had already experienced their particular problem and could give them the benefit of their knowledge . |
| 29 | Recent researchers , such as H.L. Miles ( 1983 ) , claim to have had more luck but even then , giving them the benefit of every doubt , ‘ there remains a large gap between the signing of these trained apes and the speech of children who have vocabularies of approximately the same size ’ ( Griffin 1984 : 199 ) . |
| 30 | He would give them the benefit of his theories that letting their hair down at pop concerts and football matches would be a therapeutic and profitable use of their leisure time . |