Example sentences of "[vb infin] them [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Law Commission committee says that this principle is not good enough ; sellers should be under a legal duty to reveal everything they know and ought to know about their property — which would oblige them to carry out a survey before offering it for sale . |
| 2 | Unfortunately that did n't make them go away . |
| 3 | to sort of make them go round |
| 4 | I can make them disappear too . ’ |
| 5 | Oh yeah , that irritates me but , I mean it 's gon na it 's gon na make them think again in n it ? |
| 6 | If your organization is slap-happy it will unnerve candidates and may make them think twice before accepting a job with you . |
| 7 | That 'd make them sit up and realise they ca n't get away with desecrating any bit of wild country they can get their hands on … ‘ |
| 8 | Well that 'll make them sit up and think that 's for sure |
| 9 | Like I said , nine out of ten if I touch my brakes they 'll drop back and if they do n't then there ai n't nothing I 'm gon na do that 's gon na make them drop back . |
| 10 | And children facing troubles have a right not to be subjected to the ‘ system abuse ’ that may arise because of clumsy or inadequate professional intervention which — however well intentioned — can make them feel even more vulnerable , manipulated or ‘ kept in the dark ’ . |
| 11 | This will make them perform better . |
| 12 | The advance word on Communion was that it wanted to deal in the uncanny again , to unsettle its audiences rather than make them laugh knowingly , yet here it was with something that belonged in a Joe Dante movie . |
| 13 | In former ages we us 'd to give , So that our work-folk like farmers did live ; But the times are altered , we will make them know All we can for to bring them under our bow ; We will make them work hard for sixpence a day , Though a shilling they deserve if they had their just pay . |
| 14 | And to encourage people to work they would make them fill in a job-sheet saying how many forms they had booked in . |
| 15 | Worrying about , concentrating on and listening to the head noises will make them seem even more prominent and dominating . |
| 16 | In such circumstances their use of slang and informal language may make them seem rather stupid in the eyes of others . |
| 17 | We shall take it that their surface structure is : ( 44 ) This may at first make them seem somewhat analogous to the predicate qualifiers , except that the noun phrase beyond the mediating verb is here the subject of the clause rather than the object as with the predicate qualifiers , and it is to the entity of this noun phrase that the property of the adjective applies . |
| 18 | and I 'm gon na make them come over and I 'm gon na make them beat the shit out of you ! |
| 19 | You ca n't make them come off they 're blimming boots . |
| 20 | Wings can be firmly stitched down or left raised , this will make them look even more realistic . |
| 21 | Obviously vertical arrangements will make walls look taller ; horizontal will make them look longer . |
| 22 | An hour on the workbench could make them play quite reasonably , but do n't imagine you 're getting anything like a real Rickenbacker for a bargain price ; they 've got the looks , but that 's about all . |
| 23 | Please God I can make them understand how much this means to me … |
| 24 | Young Gareth did n't want them to give up , they said , but Mr Vickers senior told him you 'd be all right even if you had got lost . |
| 25 | She assured the women she addressed that suffragists did not want them to give up ‘ one jot or tittle of your womanliness , your love for children , your care for the sick , your gentleness , your self-control , your obedience to conscience and duty ’ . |
| 26 | plus all the schools that they 're going to between and what do we want them to collect so they can do all and that . |
| 27 | " The exhibitors thought they just wanted a big shed , " Bizat phlegmatically recalls , " and their view was " all we want people to see is our stands , we do n't want them looking anywhere else " , so they disliked the idea ofa setting that was attractive in itself But the then architect , Dr Peter Smith , wanted to bring the Palace back to its previous glory . |
| 28 | As far as I could ever determine , he really did do that — he actually sat down and wrote a song for them because he liked them and did n't want them to go away . |
| 29 | Do we want them to go ahead without us . |
| 30 | And Ve Vera phoned this morning , Joe phoned this morning an all I did n't want them to go out , anyway I 've made arrangements to go round to see Vera on Friday afternoon and they they went out to where was it ? |