Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] them [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie clung to the privacy of her room , as small children do to their teddy bears ; she never invited her friends there , preferring to contain them in the large sitting-room below . |
| 2 | The campaign against scroungers began in the mid-seventies when the Labour government inaugurated the recession with public spending cuts and implicated the poor in the nation 's plight by refusing to immunise them against the economic squeeze . |
| 3 | Film historians have spent a good deal of time debating the significance of the gangster films and attempting to relate them to the whole ethos of the Wall Street crash and the onset of the depression . |
| 4 | They may put the blame entirely on the teenagers for failing to respond to their advice or orders as they once did , but the fault may be theirs for failing to treat them as the young adults they have now become . |
| 5 | ‘ For stealing household goods and trying to sell them in the surrounding villages . ’ |
| 6 | You 're trying to put them in the same leg darling . |
| 7 | ‘ So , given that I have a political opportunity , I tend to become an enthusiast harnessing the forces that are at work , trying to get the best out of them , trying to use them for the political purposes that I believe in . |
| 8 | In the later 1650s , for example , Oliver Cromwell came to see himself as a second Moses who , having led his people out of the Egyptian slavery of Laudianism and through the Red Sea of civil war , was now struggling to bring them towards the Promised Land . |