Example sentences of "[vb past] them [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having recovered the sail , we made them bleed the line . |
| 2 | This made them hold the glider down and often caused overspeeding or even overrunning of the cable or parachute . |
| 3 | My soldiers were guarding the master copies of the very instructions that made them do the guarding . |
| 4 | ‘ I had the chance to go out when there were only four cars on the track , but I made them change the car which meant I went out in the busy section . ’ |
| 5 | Made them envy the lucky swells who would be escorting her to nightclubs and restaurants , but also gave them a sense that she was n't stuck up , that she was a genuine person . |
| 6 | Personal experiences made them reject the new truism that the children of fatherless families become delinquent . |
| 7 | So the challenging headline " our creams and lotions are all used up " made them read the rest of the copy . |
| 8 | In fact we expected them to solve the problem for us . |
| 9 | The growing materialism of the age led them to envisage the hereafter as the eternal ‘ Now ’ , and depict survival in terms of the senses . |
| 10 | They were also concerned that their Equal Opportunities policies should apply to all funded groups , and their awareness of the multi-faceted discrimination experienced by black lesbians and gays led them to fund the Black Lesbian and Gay Centre Project . |
| 11 | It was perhaps their awareness of this , rather than their arrogance , which led them to emphasize the relationship so strongly after Edward IV 's death . |
| 12 | It was perhaps their awareness of this , rather than their arrogance , which led them to emphasize the relationship so strongly after Edward IV 's death . |
| 13 | Like legislators , doctors set themselves up as women 's protectors and the preoccupation with women 's reproductive systems as the source of their illness and weakness led them to assume the role of moral guardian . |
| 14 | If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year . |
| 15 | We also asked them to name the party they thought best on economic matters for themselves and their families , for Britain as a whole , and for the unemployed . |
| 16 | ‘ It was only when the police asked them to turn the noise down that any of us had any chance of sleep . ’ |
| 17 | We got together a jury of 13 good hairdressers and asked them to nominate the hairdresser they most admired . |
| 18 | She called the switchboard and asked them to page the physio on call , and was told she was in ITU with a patient and likely to be tied up for at least half an hour . |
| 19 | Her letter also asked them to reimburse the clamping fee , postage costs and compensation for her ‘ time and distress ’ . |
| 20 | when he asked them change the tyres over they would n't do it . |
| 21 | Before presenting the subjects with the lists for the second time , the researchers asked them to recall the words . |
| 22 | ‘ The holidaymakers were having a party and one of the prisoners went and asked them to keep the noise down . |
| 23 | For example , when Bernstein showed working-class children a sequence of pictures and asked them to tell the story contained there , they began so to speak from inside it : ‘ he kicks the ball through the window then the woman chases them ’ etc. ( 1971 ) . |
| 24 | While Jack and Kathleen dealt with the patient , Amy rang the switchboard and asked them to pass the message on to Dr Marumba . |
| 25 | At the start we asked them to approach the Union of Post Office Workers ( UPW ) to cut off the mail to Grunwick but they would n't do that either . |
| 26 | Every time the pollsters asked them to list the issues that most concerned them , the Scots obstinately placed those matters that fail to excite emissaries from the London media at the top — unemployment , the NHS , education — just as in comparable parts of the UK . |
| 27 | The chosen redesigners were Information Design unit of Newport Pagnell , UK ; and we asked them to make The Lancet easier to read by attention to the typography , layout , and production techniques . |
| 28 | The Americans got them to debate the League of Nations . |
| 29 | WASL has written to many galleries , gallery co-ordinators and exhibition organisors and invited them to visit the organisation and view the collection . |
| 30 | Though the elder , oak leaves bristling as he faced Tallis , invited them to share the vessel to cross the wide lake , she shook her head . |