Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] them [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Two men … someone must have let them in the front door … they took Jacqui … ’ |
| 3 | But perhaps he could not have attracted them to The Other Story . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | Nothing in the three villagers ' long but sheltered past could have prepared them for the horrendous sight that met their eyes . |
| 6 | Admiral Sir Clowdisley Shovell [ q.v. ] may also have used them in the Mediterranean . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | That would have taken them past the vital February sailing time along what Whitehall claims is an organised escape route . |