Example sentences of "[verb] them [to-vb] [pron] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are constantly talking to the press try and persuade them to give us more coverage . |
| 2 | The hardest loss for many is to move ultimately from their own home to a home for the elderly , a move which they recognize may well be the last one they will ever make , and which forces them to confront their own death . |
| 3 | What it aims to do is discipline students , systematically , in the areas mentioned above , training them to edit their own work , correcting errors in style , grammar , and punctuation . |
| 4 | Kenya 's dilemma then became that of finding how to make foreigners welcome whilst forcing them to bring their own capital . |
| 5 | At the East 15 Drama School I have taken audition technique sessions , which was all fine and large but I encouraged them to write their own material as well as having stock pieces to do . |
| 6 | I often set a problem and allow them to choose their own method of working . |
| 7 | Firms which reduce emissions by amounts exceeding the reductions required by the authorities under the bubble or offset policies can ‘ bank ’ emission reduction credits and either use them to expand their own plant later or openly trade them with other companies . |
| 8 | On retirement their savings and pension enable them to buy their own flat or cottage ; but because they may never have cooked more than a snack for themselves or lived alone , the adjustment to this different way of life can be hard to make . |
| 9 | Moreover , in the British context , the fact that Leninist and Trotskyist groupings are hopelessly divided and have never been able to move beyond a fringe role and secure any kind of solid base in the working class has , as a matter of practical politics , forced them to reconsider their own position and that of the Labour Party . |
| 10 | Even scholars intent on appropriating the classical inheritance did so for their own reasons : Abbot Lupus of Ferrières made his command of Cicero 's letters serve as a sort of code in communicating with learned friends , while Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims compiled extracts from the Theodosian Code and then cited them to suit his own book . |