Example sentences of "have [verb] them [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cardigans and coats are difficult because your child has to approach them from the wrong side . |
| 2 | Trading in these securities has been sparse since the crash in October 1987 , and the recent withdrawals of marketmakers such as Warburg Securities , UBS Phillips & Drew and County NatWest from dealing in the securities of many smaller companies has left them without the mandatory two marketmakers for inclusion in the SEAQ system of continuously updated two-way prices . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | For a new act , I would have to pitch them at the right venue for their type of music . |
| 5 | ‘ Two men … someone must have let them in the front door … they took Jacqui … ’ |
| 6 | But perhaps he could not have attracted them to The Other Story . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | Certainly , these designs were employed for a period of at least forty years , and their designers might not always have seen them in the same light . |
| 9 | Nothing in the three villagers ' long but sheltered past could have prepared them for the horrendous sight that met their eyes . |
| 10 | Admiral Sir Clowdisley Shovell [ q.v. ] may also have used them in the Mediterranean . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is not envisaged that we would have to use them for the offshore industry , but the provisions provide a safety net . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We shall often have to invoke them in the following chapters , though we shall rely all we can on originals . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | That would have taken them past the vital February sailing time along what Whitehall claims is an organised escape route . |
| 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 | ‘ If I 'd had three boys I could have fitted them into the same bedrooms . ’ |
| 22 | I would 've put them on the same level in all honesty |
| 23 | But Blakelock had the best opportunity to do that , and he would n't need to have taken them in the first place . |
| 24 | If the purchaser himself intends to dispose subsequently of these assets he will prefer to have acquired them at the higher base cost to minimise capital gains or corporation tax on a subsequent disposal . |
| 25 | All the same , the theme is still national honour and personal loyalty , the lessons which Dick teaches to Anastasia as successfully as he had taught them to the weak but responsive Carol . |
| 26 | Shuffling all those bodies about to get it all nice and tidy , I think would not only be an enormous exercise , it would be a waste of time , because people do n't stay fixed in aspic once you 've placed them in the right place ; they change , they progress , they regress or whatever . |
| 27 | But the archaeologists ' obsession with the past had blinded them to the real cause of the lamentations they witnessed along the river . |
| 28 | ‘ In this case it 's because they believe you 've tricked them over the supposed disappearance of Clarion Call . |
| 29 | The devil had booked them into the same room . |
| 30 | What magic did these brothers possess that had catapulted them into the rarefied atmosphere of the multi-billionaires . |