Example sentences of "[vb infin] them [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gravity attracts objects towards each other ; antigravity would make them repel each other . |
| 2 | Erm the people who have problems erm I would think , because of of feeling probably the way , they feel about living in the flats or about having to live in that way , does n't make them feel any batter about erm you know any any other particular difficulties that they 're having . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We do not want them to inherit all our problems when it is their responsibility to create the wealth and care for the increased number of elderly and aged people in this country . |
| 5 | But he was glad he 'd been able to fend off too many probing journalistic questions about her ; he did n't want them publishing any comments about her at this stage , that was sure . |
| 6 | And he did n't want them saying that . |
| 7 | I sent the cheque back , saying that although it had been immensely good of them to bring me up , I must have been a great burden and was now a disappointment , so I would prefer them to keep this money as some repayment for all they had done . |
| 8 | pressure of work on credit advises can tempt them to see this as a way of reducing the workload |
| 9 | An authoritative energy-labelling system will assist them to do that . |
| 10 | Before anyone goes in and sits on the dentist 's chair which forms the centrepiece of the cage , Dr Tydeman will first monitor them using some external equipment . |
| 11 | ‘ Did you expect them to leave all that in ? ’ he said . |
| 12 | The Pentagon 's own fault , really , although you ca n't expect them to admit this . |
| 13 | I could see that they did n't expect them to have much effect . |
| 14 | Ethics do have a place in the boardroom , and our employees , er employees in I B M , would expect them to have that place . |
| 15 | So , what probably happens is that women at the bottom of the social heap in the United States , having poor health care , high stressed lives , crime , drugs and all these kind of problems , probably have more spontaneous abortions , therefore the sex ratio away from males towards females , whereas women at the top of the social scale , low stress lives , good health care , better maternity erm medicine , stuff like that , retain more foetuses , therefore you 'd expect them to have more males , and this is what seems to happen . |
| 16 | Yeah yeah but erm what I 'm saying is you can tax them take that surplus , cream it off , create an equal society direct state intervention invest it in factories , whatever . |
| 17 | This was a anti-tank and it fired a bomb and of course we put a demonstration on firing this and then we was up the Bell Lane end and right at the top by Bailey 's farm there was a row of seats , benches , along the walk there and of course the demonstration was we 'd show them imagine those seats are tanks course we never thought in the world we should ever even get near one anyway we hit one and broke it Cos they , they , I mean they was only dummies , they were n't , I mean there was no explosive just the dummy shell you know and we , we was quite pleased with ourselves being as we 'd got an audience . |
| 18 | ‘ I really do n't like them eating that sort of disgusting junk food , ’ Laura protested . |
| 19 | Christina did not like them to receive such a bad impression of Crystal Springs . |
| 20 | ‘ Ca n't see them takin' that risk with me , ’ said Tommy . |
| 21 | I ca n't see them keeping that division together for very long |
| 22 | Wankers like Tommy Docherty et al are crapping on that Man Utd are well clear now , who can stop them , and they can only see them losing half a dozen games . |
| 23 | If the impassioned pleas are directed at those close to the culprits , I can not see them having much effect . |
| 24 | I did n't mind them taking any coal . |
| 25 | I ca n't remember them reading any books or even having any books around the house to read . |
| 26 | ‘ Companies would benefit by drawing from a wider pool of talent and ability than is currently considered , ’ he writes , ‘ and it would enable them to appoint more women . |
| 27 | To enable teachers to perform this function with regard to language , they will need in their training the research tools that will enable them to do this . |
| 28 | Different groups have different access to resources that may enable them to make such a move . |
| 29 | In particular , providing the police force with risk tables would enable them to identify those first-time victims of crime most at risk of having the experience repeated . |
| 30 | The key that they thought would enable them to achieve this was palladium , a light grey metal similar to platinum in appearance . |