Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] them [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Someone in the audience has asked me to greet them the way the chimpanzees greet each other in the wild at Gombe , ’ Jane Goodall began . |
| 2 | They are looking for someone to give them a helping hand . ’ |
| 3 | The flowers of the garden mourned for Virginia Creeper , with nobody to restrain them the flowers had left their beds and were running riot . |
| 4 | This will bring Koi to the surface , enabling you to give them a visual health check ( but not of the underside where ulcers may occur ) . |
| 5 | YOUR children may be pestering you to give them a games system for Christmas but you may be better off with a real computer instead . |
| 6 | If for some reason it is impossible for you to give them the help in the house they need , a Home Help can be provided by the local authority social services department . |
| 7 | I should like to have a good bath — I have n't had one for weeks — and something to eat , before you begin to cut me up as though I were one of your business opponents laid out for you to hand them the coup de grâce . ’ |
| 8 | He took out two large plastic orange cones — the sort you get on motorway hold-ups — and gave them to me , telling me to put them the other side of the bend to slow the traffic coming down . |
| 9 | Like me to give them a ring ? |
| 10 | I 'm having to swim them off the steamer and tow them in a dinghy to get our put the slings on them before we left the beach and just pushed them into the water and towed them off and hook the hook the into the sling and up them to give them a good wash before they went to Kirkwall . |
| 11 | It is as if the economy , the restraint of much of the writing passed over onto them to give them a curious accidental dignity . |
| 12 | You will not get the best out of the professionals you consult unless you have a realistic appreciation of what you want and intend to be open and honest enough with them to give them the facts they will need to help you . |
| 13 | ‘ Remind me to send them a cheque , Woody . ’ |
| 14 | They believed in the myth and Diana could not bring herself to tell them the awful truth . |
| 15 | A GANG of five teenagers stole a 20-year-old woman 's cash card and then tortured her to give them the pin number . |
| 16 | It can , however , no longer be assumed that that is so , and in any case it is not clear that if a clergyman wishes to stand and electors wish him to represent them the mere fact that the churches do not like the idea has anything to do with matter . |
| 17 | Of course , her generous spirit about staff using the amenities of the lodge also allowed her to pay them a pittance that had made Charity 's small salary as an intern seem princely . |
| 18 | So they devised a lot of things themselves to give them a a a helping hand . |
| 19 | Everybody looked at me , waiting for me to show them the robot animal . |
| 20 | Three of them stay upstairs with Crilly , while the other three ask me to show them the bedroom . |
| 21 | She must write a note to each of them to tell them the families were safe as soon as they were all accounted for . |
| 22 | Nikos had been busy , too , and he summoned them to show them the result of his labours . |
| 23 | There are many who arrive actually on their 60th birthday , asking us to find them a job because they have no intention of retiring . |
| 24 | We 've only got two now , but they like us to tell them the details of the day . ’ |