Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] [pron] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Ali Akbar Rafsanjani , the powerful speaker of the Iranian parliament , ‘ The Americans started contacting us through scores of channels begging us to help them in the Lebanon ; through Japan , our neighbouring countries like Pakistan , our embassies , the United Nations and numerous arms brokers . ’ |
| 2 | What sort of place had we brought them to ? |
| 3 | Those are the first ones you contact but you still have to sit down with one of the estate agents and say , Well look what sort of business do you give them ? |
| 4 | What sort of things do you expect them to look into ? |
| 5 | In order to teach potential students the value of laundry work you make them do it for a while . |
| 6 | One may guess at the Spaniard 's dismay when Moctezuma passed him some lumps of greenstone enjoining him to hand them to none other than his prince . |
| 7 | I see what sort of crane did you call them , the new ones ? |
| 8 | A male teacher can antagonize you , attract you , provoke you into working harder , and make you aware of aspects of yourself that you did not know existed ; if these have potential , a man can apply a useful sort of pressure to make you develop them . |
| 9 | That those kinds of women make everyone need them and rely on them , so they foster an array of — of emotional cripples around them . |
| 10 | The Court of Appeal allowed her to see them , deciding that although the reports might contain information given in confidence , yet the public interest in parties to litigation being able fully to prove their case and so not be denied justice outweighed the public interest in maintaining the confidentiality of pupil files . |
| 11 | It tried to fasten on innocuous bits of bark and leaf , but the scourge of curiosity forced it to leave them behind . |