Example sentences of "[v-ing] them [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be worth sending them your demos , as well as pictures and biographies , and hope that someone takes an interest in you . |
| 2 | Bending the Equal Opportunities rules , he had used the normal method of tipping off chosen journalists and assuring them their applications would go through smoothly . |
| 3 | Many lenders automatically put their borrowers on a budget plan without asking them their preferences at the outset . |
| 4 | A questionnaire is being sent to all local General Election candidates asking them their views on the subject . |
| 5 | Dr Wright is about to start another memory challenge for Britons — by asking them their whereabouts on the day the Prince and Princess of Wales 's separation was announced . |
| 6 | I told Northcliffe that if his people would make enquiries at our Central Office , he would find that our nightly regiment of speakers was at least as well worth reporting as the Radical contingent , but that I realized that from the Press point of view , no doubt , our speakers did not play up to the reporters by handing them their speeches in advance , and by other tricks of the kind to which the Radical orators have recourse . |
| 7 | He had the art of lighting up the faces of those he met by a single kindly word , and so making them his admirers in a flash . |
| 8 | I swear by Apollo Physician , by Health , by Panacea , and by all the gods and goddesses , making them my witnesses , that I will carry out , according to my ability and judgment , this oath and this indenture … |
| 9 | The key to impressing Mum and Auntie Jean , and the best way to keep their tongues off the risible subject of my loin-cloth , which inevitably had them quaking with laughter , was to introduce them to the actors afterwards , telling them which sit-coms and police programmes they 'd seen them in . |
| 10 | Piggy would almost definitely have saved the boys as he could have held on to their love for civilisation by telling them his stories about his auntie , as both his parents were dead . |
| 11 | ‘ They have had people walking in offering them their savings . |