Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] them [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before presenting the subjects with the lists for the second time , the researchers asked them to recall the words . |
| 2 | Many urban tradesmen , especially those connected with the building industry , seem to have invested in a small way in housing for rent , but there can be little doubt that the special facilities in raising capital conferred by acts of parliament on turnpike trusts and canal companies enabled them to become the recipients of a flow of capital from sources which would not otherwise have been drawn so directly towards economic improvements . |
| 3 | The variety of television news ( and current affairs ) programmes allowed them to choose the degree of depth and detail they wanted , but not the political viewpoints expressed . |
| 4 | But deteriorating internal conditions forced them to increase the subsidy in 1985 to 20 per cent , and to promise prompt payment ( Kenya , 1986 , p. 96 ) . |
| 5 | Neighbours told them to ring the hospital . |
| 6 | We must now consider the role of the ‘ demagogues ’ , and the way their rhetorical and other skills enabled them to manipulate the Assembly and so detract from its sovereignty . |
| 7 | The Americans got them to debate the League of Nations . |
| 8 | Every time the pollsters asked them to list the issues that most concerned them , the Scots obstinately placed those matters that fail to excite emissaries from the London media at the top — unemployment , the NHS , education — just as in comparable parts of the UK . |
| 9 | ‘ It was only when the police asked them to turn the noise down that any of us had any chance of sleep . ’ |
| 10 | Although Laing started at the bottom of the ladder , he admits that the fact he and his brother inherited control of the business early on in their careers helped them to climb the hierarchy rather swiftly . |