Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] them [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I wanted them to learn the piano and both did learn . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | In May 1862 the authorities issued a set of press rules which enabled them to suspend The Contemporary and a number of other journals . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It had become almost impossible for claimants and those who advised them to understand the system . |
| 11 | You told them to dump the body in the bay , where it would n't be found for a while . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She pocketed them to make the break-in look authentic . |
| 14 | You took them to replace the salt your tears had bereaved you of . |
| 15 | They were enough to stretch a teacher who wanted them to learn the beauty of poetry . |
| 16 | In fact we expected them to solve the problem for us . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | Once the commotion had died down , he told them to break the time pencils and get to work . |
| 21 | It encouraged them to break the law and used the threat of a ‘ backlash ’ to discourage the British government from compromise with Dublin , and then denounced loyalists for law-breaking . |
| 22 | He had to keep his arms free as he needed them to keep the snake from suffocating him . |
| 23 | Those were his heroes , and you can look at it like thy had a defeatist attitude or were grotesquely self-indulgent — or that it enabled them to have the art . |
| 24 | His eyes filled with water and he rubbed them to remove the dirt . |
| 25 | Vincent spoke almost enviously of the miners ' darkness , and the chance it gave them to reclaim the light . |