Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] them [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( ii ) It is probably clear to the reader that , although we are trying to work formally and to assume nothing other than that given , we do not choose our definitions of unc and unc in a perfectly random fashion , but rather make them reflect what we want to happen . |
| 2 | I 've got to go and tell the teacher this morning Alex needs to stay till twenty past three cos they only want them to stay till half two . |
| 3 | It was hard , travelling home in that bus , and surrounded by the immense , evident , and varied liberties of people and land , to believe in the small impossibilities of her own home , and she felt , as she so frequently felt , the will to believe it to be different : the truth was too grotesque and too unnatural , and her hopes were so strong that she carelessly let them wander a little , giving them a little leeway , letting them sniff and pry and explore . |
| 4 | Use a sunscreen with a SPF greater than 10 from 6 months onwards , and then only let them stay in the sun for short periods . |
| 5 | Colin and John wish to thank White 's Electronics for the posters , key-rings and badges they supplied and Denise Rushton , who not only let them have exhibition space free of charge , but also travelled from Leicester to Telford to meet them on the day . |
| 6 | If so let them carry on . |
| 7 | Cats sleep a lot , so let them choose their own spots — instead of a cosy fireside , your two might prefer an old box on top of the filing cabinet . |
| 8 | Just le lea you 're leading them home so let them pick a bit of grass and then you go on into the yard and I 'll give them the breakfast , they have their breakfast and while they 're eating their breakfast you 're doing your horse and you get finished and then you go and have yours . |
| 9 | my granddad yeah , yeah but my granddad , he 's Scotch my other granddad was a German , me grandma were Jewish and I were born in London so let them fathom that out . |
| 10 | So let them have one boyl Then glass them . |
| 11 | Increasingly during this time almost all purchasing authorities have struggled with how to educate general practitioners and so empower them to use their influence constructively in the purchasing process . |
| 12 | Erm , because if , if interruptions are coming from the people who work for you , you can , you know , nicely tell them to go away and get on with it , but if they 're coming from the boss , and bosses are sensitive soles , so it 's difficult to actually say to the boss , boss you 're wasting a lot of my time , go away . |
| 13 | Are there occasions when there are other opportunities for kids to meet university people , perhaps hear them speak about their subjects ? |
| 14 | For ‘ prodigies ’ ( ‘ Mr Binyon 's young prodigies ’ ) surely we ought to read ‘ protégés ’ ; and then it becomes possible to wonder whether the jocularity about bulldogs does n't mark a wistful or resentful sense that Binyon and Sturge Moore ( ‘ old Neptune ’ ) might have done more with their respective protégés than merely set them to sniff and snarl at each other 's heels ; to question whether the two senior writers could not have established themselves — at least for some purposes — as masters of ateliers in which the two young hopefuls might have enrolled as apprentices . |
| 15 | Extreme weather is the greatest enemy of lips , so keep them protected from the elements with lip salves and creams . |
| 16 | I am childless ; but the Jews are my children and I love them as a parent should , which is to say that I do n't love them for their qualities ( remarkable as these seem to me to be , naturally ) , and only wish them to exist , and to flourish , and to have their right to life and love . |
| 17 | ‘ Bearing in mind the vast divide between rich and poor in Argentina , they presumably let them eat cake all the time , ’ said Perdita . |
| 18 | I could not stop them , so I rather let them get on with it … |
| 19 | You know all the guests and something about them ; you can greet , welcome , introduce and generally make them feel at home . |
| 20 | Just make them pay for the |
| 21 | I just make them see the colour going up the stem of a plant . |
| 22 | Head of Department : ‘ We already make them purchase a pad plus two HB pencils — total £1·50 for Art for the parents . |
| 23 | The objectives give us a way of er measuring at the end of the course whether the course has achieved for you what you wanted from we 'll come back as I said to those this afternoon and and just review them to see that you got out of the course what you . |
| 24 | I am prepared to wait if I know that in the end he 'll be let in , but in the meantime I just want them to allow my children to attend school . |
| 25 | We do n't encourage them to give up their other sports , we just want them to have the same chance in tennis . ’ |
| 26 | On an outward breath just let them go . |
| 27 | But the blacks they just let them go . |
| 28 | ‘ I suggest we just let them suffer , ’ Ben said cheerfully . |
| 29 | We owe it to these people and British Telecom owes it to these people just let them pay for what they use get rid of the standing charge . |
| 30 | Before the start , just let them know you are there and do n't let anyone crowd you ; try and make as much space for yourself as you can . |