Example sentences of "i [verb] them [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other I sell them to make a living . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | I want them to share the Person who has filled my life with such abundance . |
| 5 | He said of his team : ‘ I want them to win the FA Cup for a start . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I told them to spare no expense . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I ask them to form a circle , as if standing around the hole , and close their eyes . |
| 10 | I use them to make a Summer Pudding or a water ice . |
| 11 | I invite them to examine the Opposition 's policies to see how they would fare under a Labour Government . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I wanted them to learn the piano and both did learn . |
| 14 | I wanted them to have a programme they could say they watched simply because they liked and enjoyed it . ’ |