Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] them [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Audience were the brainchild of Howard Werth , a band whose art rock attracted such luminaries as David Bowie , Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd enough to invite them to join them on tour . |
| 2 | We can only require them to pay us , and not to get us into anything dangerous or illegal … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I think someone must have taken it and I can only ask them to bring it back to me , ’ said Mrs King , of Egglestone Way . |
| 4 | It 's our work around heterosexism which makes a direct and daily challenge to them , and in a sense this work is a pure act of coming out in that it no longer allows them to treat us as one of the girls ( or boys ) who is really just like them . |
| 5 | ‘ But we 'd just like them to know we are as terribly unhappy as they are . ’ |
| 6 | He said nothing , merely walked away leaving them to push it open and then shut it after them , and on Philippa explaining to his departing back that she wanted to look for her earring and take back the vases and one or two things ‘ out of his way ’ , he said as ungraciously as he could ‘ I suppose so ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ The simplest thing would be for you to write to STG and say you no longer wish them to represent you . |
| 8 | ‘ But the council 's so embarrassed about that one that they 're just leaving them to put it right as quietly as they can . |
| 9 | In November 1819 the poverty of Kitto 's family finally forced them to send him to the workhouse , where he was set to learn shoe making . |
| 10 | You know , so personally for my area of work I just wanted them to think they were getting someone respectable . |
| 11 | What 's probably happening is that you are trying to tell them you are annoyed but also saying you still want them to like you at the same time . |
| 12 | He always told them to forget it because the School was falling down , it was subsiding , and one day would crumble and disappear : the trains had shaken it to pieces . |
| 13 | But what we could do of course , is is we put in a time between containers , we could always use them to re-palletize it . |
| 14 | There 's still probably a lot more people thought who saw things out there , and we 'd still like them to contact us at Cowley if they 've any information as to who the offenders are . |
| 15 | When God selects individuals for a particular job he also equips them to do it . |
| 16 | The Greeks sold wine to the Celts , but also taught them to produce it . |
| 17 | I could probably get them to send me one or two copies . |
| 18 | You are strictly to forbid them to deprive us of anything which ought of right to belong to us . |
| 19 | They can choose to use felt or crayons if they have them , but we ca n't really tell them to buy them . ’ |
| 20 | I really wanted them to visit me , but they never did . |
| 21 | This will make the operations of poachers that much more difficult , or even force them to pack it in altogether . |
| 22 | In fact she almost expected them to accuse her of causing the conscience-prodding dip into their pockets . |
| 23 | Get someone to read it to you once only , then get them to ask you the questions which follow . |
| 24 | He rose to his feet , wiped his hands on his jeans , then beckoned them to follow him up to the house . |
| 25 | we should encourage them to microfilm them and then we should then encourage them to give us a a , a |
| 26 | Betty 's technique was to set all her pupils the same task and then to teach them to accomplish it . |
| 27 | ‘ Then ask them to repeat it back to you just as you told it . |
| 28 | Explain that no one is to see what they have written on the paper and then ask them to pin it on the back of the next guest to arrive . |
| 29 | He drove the plane back into the circuit and again forced them to let him through . |
| 30 | Neatly , for a writer whose work is characterised by the comic accomodations of the half-believer , the terms in which Lodge 's defence is couched once again join them to beat them . |