Example sentences of "[verb] people [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | The band spent a fortune on chrysanthemums , employing people to distribute them at every gig . |
| 2 | Erm the alchemist is conning people promising them that he 'll turn base metals into gold . |
| 3 | Many of these observations became well-known sayings and some of them were made into verse to help people remember them . |
| 4 | and are , are employing and paying people to work them but they do n't ever seem to come to any let's say reportable conclusion about the cost of operations . |
| 5 | In addition , mentally handicapped people have a right to expect people to understand them and accept them within the society of which they are a part ; a right to be born and a right to live . |
| 6 | ‘ Normally we do n't like people to see them at this stage . |
| 7 | Well that 's because , perhaps because , when they were young children people directed them in that kind of decision making , or look people directed them to look at those sorts of levels . |
| 8 | But the Americans , apart from the fact that they probably provided the guns in the first place , paid out $1m to persuade people to hand them in . |
| 9 | You mean people spice them up |
| 10 | ‘ Our sales staff have been extremely busy contacting people to tell them that this definitely is the best time to buy a car . ’ |
| 11 | His worry about the ‘ practical ’ principles of morality is that the doctrine of their innateness prevents people working them out for themselves . |
| 12 | Letting people see them at work . |
| 13 | On the one hand a society must reproduce various roles — there must be slots for postmen , steelworkers , parents and civil servants — and on the other hand it must produce people to fill them . |
| 14 | Probably pay people to answer them . ’ |
| 15 | The guidelines require that new homes , shops and workplaces be planned and sited in ways that encourage people to reach them by public transport , bicycle or on foot . |
| 16 | I think they 're silly because they just encourage people to break them . |
| 17 | For these to be undertaken it is necessary to mount a separate ‘ experimental ’ project , but since children are not white mice it is necessary first to enlist enough parental support to allow people to give them their children to experiment on , and enough official support to ensure that in matters such as official examinations , children who have followed radically different curricula do not suffer . |
| 18 | That was a , er do , do people make them now ? |
| 19 | Let us look at the issue of national and other groups from a different angle : how do people join them ? |
| 20 | And you ca n't let people touch them so they have to be in glass cases which are hugely expensive and take up a lot of room , and the director is not very interested in costume . |
| 21 | You , you kept them and you tried to sort of let people have them who you felt deserved them you know most . |
| 22 | They would not have allowed people to pluck them up , take them prisoner , tie a noose round their necks and kill them . |
| 23 | At one time in the recent past , willow-pattern plates and dishes were very popular , but did people buy them for the sad story of the elopement they depicted , or only because they were fashionable at the time ? |
| 24 | The is quite difficult to , to work it out and , and analysis these people , you know , when you do n't want to see themselves watching people knowing them to watch Dynasty or Dallas or something , so they on purpose watch very interesting documentary . |
| 25 | Stressing the need for the rich cadences and rhythms of the Book of Common Prayer , he said people loved them because they could remember them in times of crisis . |
| 26 | Stressing the need for the rich cadences and rhythms of the Book of Common Prayer , he said people loved them because they could remember them in times of crisis . |
| 27 | And I think somebody said people read them out . |
| 28 | We 've discovered that if you do n't give — when a deer comes in ; a road casualty or anything , we do n't give them a massive shot of steroids , it 'll die , so we can advise people giving them massive shot of steroids and er the deer live then you can start worrying about his injuries erm baby birds ; there 's classic ways of rearing baby birds which are very , very important at the moment 'cause there 's thousands of them around . |
| 29 | It 's that , really , that makes people call them crazy . |
| 30 | It makes people hate them even more . ’ |