Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] them [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other I sell them to make a living . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I believe I have two more years of top-class rugby in me and I want them to include a return to the England team . ’ |
| 3 | I told them to put a tourniquet on my arm and give me some morphia , whereupon one of them started to bandage my wrist and the other went off to ask what morphia was . |
| 4 | I ask them to form a circle , as if standing around the hole , and close their eyes . |
| 5 | I use them to make a Summer Pudding or a water ice . |
| 6 | I wanted them to have a programme they could say they watched simply because they liked and enjoyed it . ’ |
| 7 | Do you want them to do a menu rotation or keep making them up every week ? |
| 8 | Shall I just throw these away then or do you want them to have a second look at or , yeah , I 'll bin them . |
| 9 | She asked them to donate a collection of drawings , watercolours and sketches as well as etchings , lino prints and engravings on metal . |
| 10 | She helped them to organise a process of gathering information by drawing up a list of possible sources , and setting them writing letters . |
| 11 | a part payment of money , which is made so that the seller will not sell the goods to anyone else : You must pay a deposit to the hotel if you want them to keep a room free for you compare earnest(1) 3 an act or action of depositing : The rate of the river 's deposit of mud is about one inch a year deposit account n. a bank account which earns interest and usu. from which money can be taken out only if advance notice is given . |
| 12 | We just do n't seem to be able to track them down or attract them in quite the same way , so there is a massive practical problem if you want them to have a voice in how things are done , there 's no doubt about that . |
| 13 | and you get them to make a will afterwards . |
| 14 | It may take them a little while , but it is important that you contact them to make a housing application and let them know of your needs . |
| 15 | On this side of the Channel , we mill them to obtain a flour . |
| 16 | ‘ To some extent Blue Peter presenters are role models for young viewers , ’ said Blue Peter editor Lewis Bronze , ‘ and we like them to have a girl or boy next door image . ’ |
| 17 | We wanted them to represent a section of the community that was quite close in the social hierarchy to the inner-city population , and in the event many speakers in the samples had inner-city social and family contacts . |
| 18 | To be an effective leader , to get bureaucrats and legislators to do what he wants them to do a president must retain the support of the public and , in the modern age , that is hardly possible without consistent command of television . |
| 19 | Guy tells them they do n't look like they 're enjoying things and he wants them to take a holiday . |
| 20 | ‘ He told them to wait a minute and shoot us down , ’ Anna May whispered into my ear , ‘ like dogs . ’ |
| 21 | It urges them to adopt a policy to maintain the right of every nation throughout the world to live its own life to the full without threat from any other state or nation . |
| 22 | ‘ They 're hard-working , respectable people , and he left them to join a gang of thieves and bad characters , and almost broke his mother 's heart . ’ |
| 23 | And if they think that it suits them to shift a factory to the Philippines because there wo n't be an inspection there , that 's what they 'll do . |
| 24 | He wanted them to write a television show for him . |