Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] them [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | And Gee ( 1975 : 311 ) argues that whereas in I helped them carry the load " I take part in the carrying " , this is not necessarily implied by the sentence with to , where " I need not actually have done any carrying " , as shown by : ( 16a ) I helped them to carry the load by having my secretary get them a cart . |
| 3 | And Gee ( 1975 : 311 ) argues that whereas in I helped them carry the load " I take part in the carrying " , this is not necessarily implied by the sentence with to , where " I need not actually have done any carrying " , as shown by : ( 16a ) I helped them to carry the load by having my secretary get them a cart . |
| 4 | ( 16b ) * I helped them carry the load by having my secretary get them a cart . |
| 5 | When I pressed them to imagine the result of such an event , they replied the murderer would be so ashamed ( lidya ) that she/he would leave the region altogether never to return ; again withdrawal . |
| 6 | I heard the ambulance and the police cars and I saw them putting the man into the ambulance and trying to resuscitate him and driving away . |
| 7 | I wanted them to learn the piano and both did learn . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | During the miners ' strike , for instance , it hosted dayschools and conferences for ordinary NUM members and miners ' wives groups , which allowed them to discuss the direction that events were taking . |
| 11 | Everyone else was allowed a lot of latitude , particularly in sexual matters , and then just before they died they took the consolamentum which permitted them to enter the life of the spirit . ’ |
| 12 | In May 1862 the authorities issued a set of press rules which enabled them to suspend The Contemporary and a number of other journals . |
| 13 | Ferguson added : ‘ When Eric joined Leeds last season , he gave them that extra bit which enabled them win the title . |
| 14 | Spices suited this situation very well : they had a high value in proportion to their weight , they could not be produced in Europe , and they were always valued by rich people who used them to mask the taste of the not-too-well preserved meat which was the best that anyone could hope for in the winter . |
| 15 | It had become almost impossible for claimants and those who advised them to understand the system . |
| 16 | You told them to dump the body in the bay , where it would n't be found for a while . |
| 17 | In the congested space few bullets could have missed their mark and the slaughter would probably have continued but for the presence of mind of the officer in charge of the war drums , who ordered them to beat the signal for silence , when the madness ceased as soon as it had arisen . |
| 18 | She pocketed them to make the break-in look authentic . |
| 19 | You took them to replace the salt your tears had bereaved you of . |
| 20 | They were enough to stretch a teacher who wanted them to learn the beauty of poetry . |
| 21 | Having recovered the sail , we made them bleed the line . |
| 22 | In fact we expected them to solve the problem for us . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | After a few minutes we watched them crossing the field , alongside the hedgerow . |
| 26 | Anglican polemicists had promised that they would allow the Dissenters some degree of toleration , if they helped them protect the Church of England from the Catholic onslaught , whilst the bishops in their petition affirmed that they did not act " from any want of due tenderness to Dissenters , in relation to whom they are willing to come to such a temper as shall be thought fit , when the matter shall be considered and settled in Parliament and Convention " . |
| 27 | They have drawn out the magical circle simply to trap the adventurers , when they saw them approaching the area . |
| 28 | He let them study the map a while , accustoming themselves once again to its details , then drew their attention to the large red-shaded area to the bottom left of the map . |
| 29 | And he let them see the gun . |
| 30 | ‘ He told them to leave the house immediately and it would appear that they did not take him seriously but laughed when he said this . |