Example sentences of "have [verb] them [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Men can not breastfeed babies , nor can they experience what it is like to have carried a child , however much their partners may have encouraged them to feel the moving infant inside the belly .
2 He talked as if he never thought in words and had to invent them to describe the shapeless , bulky concepts in his mind as he went along .
3 A telegram from the new Chair of the Central Bank , Viktor Gerashchenko , to local bank branches on July 28 had authorised them to finance the estimated debts of 1,190,000 million roubles accumulated between Russian state enterprises .
4 Hedgehogs have neither the speed nor the manoeuvrability to catch rabbits but I have known them to kill the young in a stop , gaining entrance during the times when the doe has left the stop unsealed just before the young rabbits are moved out .
5 Debts of more than £150,000 have forced them to close the tiny store in the village of Great Stukeley in Mr Major 's Huntingdon constituency .
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