Example sentences of "get them [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Americans got them to debate the League of Nations . |
| 2 | Sober reflection would have shown him that the sensible procedure would have been to phone the police and get them to ask the Bomb Disposal Squad to come and check the bag out . |
| 3 | Encourage these drug lords to stop the drug traffic and get them to use the money constructively . |
| 4 | We had to get people round the table and get them to speak to one another and get them to share the cost . |
| 5 | ‘ Get to the hall — tell them what has happened , and get them to secure the Manse . |
| 6 | ‘ You can live quite cheaply in Miami , so once you 're out there on one job , you can contact other UK clients and get them to send the gear over and keep you busy for a few weeks . |
| 7 | We wanted to break the dreadful sex magazine mafia , allow people to buy what they wanted and maybe get them to understand the plumbing of sex . |
| 8 | was the defendants solicitors , the parties during nineteen ninety one , the two solicitors , had dealt with the question of costs and er perfectly normal way , the plaintiffs have their costs , drafted by er cost draughtsman , I understand that in-house draughtsman and erm they produced to Mr a bill for costs , er Mr looked at the bill and met counter proposals and he suggested other figures , erm , figures in the region of forty two thousand pounds , forty seven and fifty thousand pounds for the plaintiffs costs , the correspondence indicates that Mr then , now put forward what with respect seems to be entirely sensible suggestion that er really it would not be sensible to proceed with having the cost taxed , he said he did n't foresee any real difficulty in getting them to agree the costs and that er the common sense thing in the interest of all parties was to see if they could reach an overall , settlement er determining all the matters in dispute , effectively this would be what was to be done in respect of the surgery premises , there was I think , there is reference in accounted to another sec another premises as well which apparently were lease , er but are now formed part of the negotiations and er negotiations continued between the parties during nineteen ninety two , by the end of nineteen ninety two the negotiations were beginning to run into difficulties , the plaintiffs were beginning to put forward non negotiable final offers and er the result unfortunately was that in apparently nineteen ninety three the er negotiations into that broke down . |
| 9 | You can see it 's a damn sight more difficult than getting them to confront the Iraqis . |
| 10 | So my first act on Indian soil was to telex a friend at Weatherbys , the British racing bureaucrats , to get them to explain the facts of life to the Bombay Turf Club . |
| 11 | It struck me as wonderful stuff , so I got in touch and tried to get them to do the music for Doctor Who , but they just did n't have the time . |
| 12 | er to get them to take the stuff away . |
| 13 | It was difficult to get them to see the relevance of some of the questions . ’ |
| 14 | At a meeting of the Finance Committee members will pr , make a progress report on how the poll tax collection is going , and campaigners say they intend to put pressure on councillors in an attempt to get them to review the collection process . |
| 15 | The idea is to get them to trust the staff and their peer group and get them to open up a bit . |
| 16 | One good idea is to get them to shout the response to the call of ‘ Oggy ’ , which originated in Cornwall . |
| 17 | For younger children , for example , I would do ‘ Sing a song of sixpence ’ correctly to get them to know the words , and then sing . |
| 18 | No , we 'll get them to light the fire . |
| 19 | He wondered if he could get them to pay the mortgage . |