Example sentences of "get them [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Mahmoud got them to go through the events of the night .
2 On the feet were home-made boots with double tongues : ‘ They were made by the village cobbler and cost fourteen shillings : they 'd last about two years if you got them clumped at the end of the first year . ’
3 And erm it was ex ex it was great having Chris along because erm he went out and grabbed everybody in the street , pulled them in onto the stall and er and got them got them to sign on the dotted line so to speak .
4 lock Peter Bell got them going with the opening score …
5 She 's gon na take them and do them , get them done at the thing and then take it home .
6 In the meantime , though , if you are releasing a work which includes samples of other people 's records , get them cleared through the labels and the music copyright owners .
7 We get them to balance over the phone .
8 Although you may still find them on sale in the spring , they 're unlikely to be at their best by then so now is the time to buy them and get them planted before the bad frosts .
9 so I goes and gets them goes in the office
10 Unfortunately , some of their riders then did them no favours whatsoever by steering for the rail and getting them penned in the pack .
11 How , then , can we go about defining our strategy in the hope of getting them to react in the right way — the way we want them to ?
12 Marriages of persons over that age , but under 18 , are completely valid ; and the only check on such marriages without the consent of parents or guardians is the difficulty of getting them celebrated by the clergyman or proper officer without making a false declaration , which involves penal consequences .
13 If , as Marland ( 1981 ) suggests , schools should develop new integrated subjects they will be faced with the task of getting them approved by the Secondary Examinations Council under the National Criteria for the various conventional subjects .
14 But because he was n't , I worked as hard as I could until dark , about night time , to get them done for the next day .
15 It is puzzling why the C&G 's managing director Andrew Longhurst feels he needs to pay Guardian members 4 per cent of their balances to get them to agree to the merger .
16 Night waking Some professionals suggest that parents should wake their children at certain times during the night to get them to go to the lavatory .
17 He threw a bottleful of his pills into the kitchen sink and tried to get them to go down the drain with the handle of a dishmop .
18 His violence towards them might even be deemed no more than a Satanic desire to get them used to the notion of reigning in Hell rather than serving in Heaven .
19 Obviously , the first requirement in developing students ' critical abilities is to get them immersed in the disciplines they are studying , and bring them to appreciate and to respect the internal criteria of evaluation — the kinds of evidence , criteria and values that are particular to each discipline .
20 His idea was that , as the Masai acquired more and more permanent waters , they would at first acquire more and more cattle ; indeed , the prospect of doing so would be the incentive required to get them to pay for the water in the first place .
21 and we do many things , we write to MP 's , we write to councils trying to get them banned off the land , and we 've been very successful .
22 they do n't want to sit in the restaurant they very rarely do get them sitting in the restaurant I suppose to a certain extent other than the Sundays it 's just waste of space .
23 You can get them to dig for you , in this other rule , you can get them to dig through the wall .
24 Even Mahmoud , however , could not get them to work in the afternoons and he too , like Owen , normally used the afternoons to catch up on desk work and reading .
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