Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] them [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast , the few policies aimed at older workers have been positively intended to encourage them to withdraw from the labour market . |
| 2 | Since then , speculation that families living close to high-voltage cables are at a greater than normal risk from childhood leukaemia and other cancers , has made them wonder about the safety of their sons Daryl , aged 2 and Jack , just 8 weeks old . |
| 3 | Their flattened bellies reflect their bottom-dwelling and fast water lifestyles , and they have rasping teeth in their suckermouths , which are designed to allow them to fasten onto the rocks and hold firm . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ You write the specifications for her repairs , and I 'll guarantee to have them done at the best boatyard in America . ’ |
| 6 | Rose , laughing , took the gloves away as he pretended to need them to wear about the house . |
| 7 | It 's not that he wants to stop them going to the toilet , we 've got to persuade these people to do it on a stagger basis … |
| 8 | But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place . |
| 9 | If the client refuses to let them communicate with the auditors , then they should turn the job down . |
| 10 | It provides us with the data , but school children will probably lose interest , so I 've decided to keep them going with the , and they 're quite happy about that . |
| 11 | The North Sea Oil bonanza — money that should have been spent encouraging and harnessing the potential of young people to live in a new , modern world — was instead squandered paying them to stay on the dole and to stay away from schools , colleges and training . |
| 12 | Benny , Ace and Petion arrived to find them milling around the door , testing it for electrification with a bayonet whose handle was securely wrapped with oilcloth . |
| 13 | ‘ Everything will be happening legally so kids wo n't have to worry about what the police are going to stop them doing on the M25 or wherever . |
| 14 | I hope that gradually we will stop seeing them begging on the streets without any prospects for their future . |
| 15 | Since then I have always followed the fortunes of Preston and am saddened to see them languishing in the lower divisions . |
| 16 | Parents who fork out one a year for expensive games would not have to see them abandoned in the cupboard and teenagers could have a dozen games a year at pocket money prices . |
| 17 | You may have seen them walking through the woods and thought that they have a nice easy job . |
| 18 | In addition to alerting subjects to the fact that the experiment was concerned with subjective risk , this may have caused them to attend to the stimuli in ways which unnaturally stressed risk-related aspects of the situations . |
| 19 | With this in mind , she had taken Charles with her when she went to see them perform for the first time . |
| 20 | Having made contact with a group of students at the nearby Architectural Association he went to see them play at the Goings On Club in Archer Street , a tiny place largely frequented by poets . |
| 21 | I knew that from when I 'd gone to watch them play in the past , but I 'd been cured of insomnia for some time now . |
| 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 | The bomb-bay of a Mosquito was too small to accommodate so large a bomb , and they had to carry them slung underneath the fuselage with the bomb doors open . |
| 24 | The public library has lost its soul because it has been absorbed into the modern semi-literate culture and because it did not have the knowledge and experience gained across generations that the old private libraries had to enable them to cope with the world of mass circulation popular fiction , for example , rather than the People 's University that Hoggart remembers from his youth in the Hunslet district of Leeds . |
| 25 | I would nt be at all suprised to see them play in the ‘ theatre of dreams ’ . |
| 26 | I 've seen them towing across the sky with Beecham 's Pills written on them er it was a familiar sight in Walsall at the time , and also sometimes they had a plane sky-writing and they used to write Rinso in smoke in the sky . |
| 27 | I came over it below the farmhouse and hugged the side wall like I 've seen them do in the movies until I could peer round into the farmyard . |
| 28 | The last time I saw Leeds win a cup match was almost 3 years ago ( Aston Villa 4–1 ) and since then I 've seen them lose to the Scum ( *3 , Rangers , and Arsenal(*2) . |
| 29 | I 've seen them taken to the sea too and er have a job to round them up . |
| 30 | I 've seen them reported in the papers and on TV . |