Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [vb pp] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are entitled to these benefits , they should have received them in the past , and they should have received them by law . |
| 2 | ‘ I told them at half-time that Batty was an aggressive player who would challenge hard and that they should n't expect any less — maybe I should have warned them before the start . |
| 3 | Yes , they will go , but the government should do two things , and it should have done them in the White Paper announcement ; it should have said ‘ we are proposing to get rid of all advantages for company cars in tax terms and we are proposing to make sure that people pay by paying more road tax or more petrol costs if they have high gas-guzzling cars ’ . |
| 4 | It is ironic that reforms intended to increase efficiency by introducing market disciplines should have undermined them in the one sector in which they already existed . |
| 5 | The flood apart from ruining their home made their own car which should have taken them for the fully-paid honeymoon in Scotland , float off down the road and crash into another car . |
| 6 | ‘ Two men … someone must have let them in the front door … they took Jacqui … ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It 's funny , ’ says Brian , ‘ they 're both so like my own kids that we often say the stork must have dropped them in the wrong homes the first time around . |
| 8 | His voice was a mere whisper , but such was the effect of his words on the woman that he might have shouted them from the rooftops . |
| 9 | Nothing in the three villagers ' long but sheltered past could have prepared them for the horrendous sight that met their eyes . |
| 10 | Even if he had thought that his parents were still there — which I found hard to believe — he could have visited them in the morning . |
| 11 | ‘ If I 'd had three boys I could have fitted them into the same bedrooms . ’ |
| 12 | Beth had a love for children , but how she wished she could have borne them for the man she loved , instead of the man she was indebted to . |
| 13 | Okay , so I lied about the cuddly toy and the microwave , but I bet if ART could have got them into the Multiverb 's 1U , 19″ rack format they would have . |
| 14 | If they 'd come we 'd have had them in the bathroom . |
| 15 | No , mum said if they 'd have come erm , she 'd have put them in the bathroom . |
| 16 | This section of the book is designed to help you come to terms with your deepest emotions and the people or events which may have caused them in the first place . |
| 17 | It is possible that supplies may have reached them by the same inner Asian route by which they imported jade and turquoise and exported silk . |
| 18 | Now all of this may well have made no difference to the final result ; the courts reading of the facts may have led them to the same conclusion whatever the meanings given to reasonable and unreasonable . |
| 19 | I would 've put them on the same level in all honesty |
| 20 | ‘ If it was then Kevin would have killed them with the first bricks he threw and that would have been the end of the film . ’ |
| 21 | No one would have constructed them in the form they have if he had not known that at all costs he must , when it comes to experimental predictions , obtain those same results which the statistically interpreted Schrödinger equation seems to produce so economically and naturally . |
| 22 | Taking them back to Orkney , they felt , would have deprived them of the privacy they needed . |
| 23 | if it is not clear how the words were in fact understood , the question is how a reasonable listener would have interpreted them in the particular context . |
| 24 | We would have expected them at the beginning , and as we are still at the beginning , they ought to be here . |
| 25 | That would have taken them past the vital February sailing time along what Whitehall claims is an organised escape route . |
| 26 | While the exhibition certainly illustrated ways in which fashion and furniture designers could create new products which were exciting , the tastes they displayed and , in the case of many items , the cost of the production would have removed them from the custom and purses of many older people . |