Example sentences of "i [verb] them [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On the other I sell them to make a living . ’
2 ‘ I had the chance to go out when there were only four cars on the track , but I made them change the car which meant I went out in the busy section . ’
3 And Gee ( 1975 : 311 ) argues that whereas in I helped them carry the load " I take part in the carrying " , this is not necessarily implied by the sentence with to , where " I need not actually have done any carrying " , as shown by : ( 16a ) I helped them to carry the load by having my secretary get them a cart .
4 And Gee ( 1975 : 311 ) argues that whereas in I helped them carry the load " I take part in the carrying " , this is not necessarily implied by the sentence with to , where " I need not actually have done any carrying " , as shown by : ( 16a ) I helped them to carry the load by having my secretary get them a cart .
5 ( 16b ) * I helped them carry the load by having my secretary get them a cart .
6 ‘ 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 . ’
7 I want them to share the Person who has filled my life with such abundance .
8 He said of his team : ‘ I want them to win the FA Cup for a start .
9 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 .
10 I told them to spare no expense . ’
11 I hear them turn the engine on .
12 When I pressed them to imagine the result of such an event , they replied the murderer would be so ashamed ( lidya ) that she/he would leave the region altogether never to return ; again withdrawal .
13 The local children just ran wild all over the place , Victorine said : I remember them riding the cows and holding cow races , oh those children had a lovely war .
14 " I heard them having a barney , Mr Feather .
15 I ask them to form a circle , as if standing around the hole , and close their eyes .
16 I heard the ambulance and the police cars and I saw them putting the man into the ambulance and trying to resuscitate him and driving away .
17 I use them to make a Summer Pudding or a water ice .
18 I invite them to examine the Opposition 's policies to see how they would fare under a Labour Government .
19 In those days I lived with my parents and when the film resurfaced at a local cinema I convinced them to spend an evening feasting their eyes on those sanguinary sapphics .
20 I wanted them to learn the piano and both did learn .
21 I wanted them to have a programme they could say they watched simply because they liked and enjoyed it . ’
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