Example sentences of "[verb] them [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even then research into the old approved schools showed children who experienced them had a reconviction rate 49 per cent higher than would otherwise have been expected from their characteristics and records . |
| 2 | Last but by not means least , and we 've heard them mentioned a couple times already this week and it will be dealt with more extensively later in the week we have of course persuaded to enter into detailed discussions with us er , which would hopefully lead to a transfer of engagements by the end of this year . |
| 3 | And I popped out to the shop on Sunday the second of November and came back totally and utterly bemused to see them putting a christmas tree up and father christmas in the window and fairy lights all over the place . |
| 4 | We want to see them receive a contract of employment which would extend their rights , particularly in relation to health and safety . |
| 5 | It was a what they call the fighting game , or something to that effect and er the the I remember once I he seeing them having a cock fight . |
| 6 | Strings were apparently omitted since the small scale ( the whole box is less than 16″x9″ ) made them look a bit stupid . |
| 7 | About 5,800 of the West Midlands force 's 7,000 drivers have undergone tough advanced driving courses allowing them to drive a car with a siren . |
| 8 | It has been designed to lure shareholders by allowing them to keep a stake in LIN , and by offering a private fair market guarantee . |
| 9 | I once complained to Help The Aged about the way they got kids to compete for ‘ badges ’ by encouraging them to collect a target number of sponsors — and thus to pester neighbours . |
| 10 | On the other I sell them to make a living . ’ |
| 11 | Do you want them to do a menu rotation or keep making them up every week ? |
| 12 | Shall I just throw these away then or do you want them to have a second look at or , yeah , I 'll bin them . |
| 13 | If there is to be a rehearsal you may prefer them to bring a practice leotard in order to keep any specially chosen outfit for the performance . |
| 14 | The young Royals flocked to Edina Ronay , along with customers from the world of showbusiness such as Marlon Brando who commissioned them to knit a sweater . |
| 15 | The year before , Maxims services had been tried out when the Ministry of the Court commissioned them to provide a banquet in the desert for a hundred people . |
| 16 | That is a matter for future debate , certainly not for today when there is quite enough to be done in preparing colleges for self-governing status and ensuring that they have the support and expertise required to enable them to make a success of that . |
| 17 | They were therefore in possession of all the necessary material facts to enable them to make a complaint a civil claim if they so wished . |
| 18 | In July , 200 supermarket staff will begin the trial scheme to enable them to gain a qualification for their day to day retailing abilities . |
| 19 | Our studies point strongly to the need of adopted children ( and all separated children in long-term arrangements ) to feel legally secure to enable them to develop a sense of belonging to their psychological family ( Triseliotis , 1983 ; Triseliotis and Russell , 1984 ; Triseliotis and Hill , 1987 ) . |
| 20 | We would expect them to be proceeding on the basis of a specific sector , a general location in sufficient detail to enable them to place a symbol on the key diagram in the approximate location where they think a new settlement should go . |
| 21 | As with cash ratios , banks could hold reserve assets above the statutory minimum , thus helping them to resist a squeeze on reserves ( but not indefinitely ) . |
| 22 | Exchange visits between company and school have kept the project going and Courtaulds is now looking at the possibility of helping them design a fibre spinning rig . |
| 23 | It 's showing we care for them , showing we do n't like what they are doing , helping them solve a problem . |
| 24 | However , it was a shaky start for the Lions today with four sparkling tries from threequarters helping them to salvage a victory . |
| 25 | Highlander staff wanted to get back to somewhere near where they started from ; that is , working with struggling communities in the mountains , helping them to find a voice , to articulate their problems clearly , and in realising the nature of their problems , to take positive action to solve them . |
| 26 | We were in our own parish and had never been to Henfield at all … we said we would obey the law , if they would show us any part that empowered them to take a man from his own poorhouse and put him into one of another parish . |
| 27 | Head of Department : ‘ We already make them purchase a pad plus two HB pencils — total £1·50 for Art for the parents . |
| 28 | All the examples are made of notes from a pentatonic scale , but harmonised using 4ths to fatten them up and make them sound a bit more ‘ chunky ’ . |
| 29 | They each fall utterly under his spell and promise to obey him in everything , whereupon he tells them that he has to go on a journey and gives them the keys of his magnificent house but forbids them to enter a room which is opened by a particular little key . |
| 30 | In Levison v Patent Steam Carpet Cleaning Co Ltd [ 1978 ] QB 69 the plaintiff telephoned the defendants and asked them to collect a carpet for cleaning . |