Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] them [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were in our own parish and had never been to Henfield at all … we said we would obey the law , if they would show us any part that empowered them to take a man from his own poorhouse and put him into one of another parish . |
| 2 | In Levison v Patent Steam Carpet Cleaning Co Ltd [ 1978 ] QB 69 the plaintiff telephoned the defendants and asked them to collect a carpet for cleaning . |
| 3 | He therefore consulted the defendant sellers of agricultural products and asked them to recommend a herbicide that could be used later than usual . |
| 4 | All the examples are made of notes from a pentatonic scale , but harmonised using 4ths to fatten them up and make them sound a bit more ‘ chunky ’ . |
| 5 | She showed these children a series of pictures and got them to tell a story about what they had seen . |
| 6 | Consequently , all visitors entering the Exhibition Room on Survey days were approached by a member of the Library 's staff who outlined to them the object of the exercise and invited them to complete a questionnaire . |
| 7 | She ripped a cushion cover into strips and used them to make a gag . |
| 8 | It 's as if everyone else had given up and the Government then said , ‘ Oh , give the workers some money and let them have a go . ’ |
| 9 | These threats backfired : Eisenhower 's ultimatum offended the members of the CFLN and encouraged them to adopt a solution that favoured de Gaulle . |
| 10 | I 'd have to go to Parliament and bribe them to pass a law specially for my divorce . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I said I wanted to take the handicapped along the River Tees to show them Middlesbrough and teach them sailing a combination of pleasure , leisure and education , ’ says Mr Chance . |
| 12 | He moved the most experienced soldiers in two squads of twenty-five men each , and deployed them to make a wedge within the stockade , their lines defending its walls , the point of the wedge facing the valley formed by the stream below the hot springs . |
| 13 | How about going wild and making squares of patterns and joining them to make a sweater ? |
| 14 | He had robbed another couple about 10 minutes before the killing , after parking his car and approaching them waving a gun . |
| 15 | ‘ I want you to get on to your divisional headquarters and ask them to organise a search of the moor in the neighbourhood of Jordan 's farm . |
| 16 | When we have what one might call this coarse-cut overview , we then have tended to approach the businesses and ask them to produce a variety of scenarios ranging from what they would like to do in a totally free world with access to unlimited money , to the extremes of divestiture at the other end . |
| 17 | The blindfolded Brownie points to someone and asks them to make a noise . |
| 18 | The student recalls the relevant concepts , rules and skills and combines them to form a solution to a problem . |
| 19 | Short , high-intensity bursts of neutrons will be produced 50 times a second by accelerating protons by potentials of up to 800 million volts , and steering them to hit a target of heavy material — uranium . |
| 20 | It will be used by owners , and other users for making decisions in respect of continued investment in that enterprise and help them to form a judgement of managers ' performance etc . |
| 21 | At Angers the Old King called Henry , Richard and Geoffrey together and compelled them to swear a compact of perpetual peace . |
| 22 | Perhaps I could be Eric 's stunt man , standing in when he turns on the flash dangerous stuff that terrifies the defenders in his wake and makes them have a go like David Burrows did . |
| 23 | They each fall utterly under his spell and promise to obey him in everything , whereupon he tells them that he has to go on a journey and gives them the keys of his magnificent house but forbids them to enter a room which is opened by a particular little key . |
| 24 | Similarly with public goods : there may be many potential suppliers of television broadcasts , but funding them presents a problem . |
| 25 | The electorate will buy what they 're shown is right , though persuading them costs a lot of bucks . |