Example sentences of "[verb] them [adj] [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone will reach for a tin of fish-paste only to be brought up short by another member of the party reminding them that fish-paste is unclean , while someone else may get as far as the checkout with a year 's supply of baked beans , when , across the crowded shelves of the supermarket , comes a voice reminding them of the danger they are facing . |
| 2 | They were both straining to reach , leaning forward as far as they could , agonisingly aware that the door and its ring handle that might have given them some leverage were out of their reach , when another sound fell on their ears . |
| 3 | The Goldsmiths confirmed the appointment in writing in October , but in December John Warren , Lord of the Manor , travelled to London to inform them that Leech was simply not competent . |
| 4 | Then they played cards until stifled yawns and missed tricks told them that tiredness was now king . |
| 5 | I took each upon my knee and told them that Mamma is gone to Heaven to God Almighty , and asked them both to promise me that they would try to be good children and follow their mother to that happy place … ‘ |
| 6 | Now let A , B be general , and let the equivalent transformations which give them canonical form be PAQ , RBS , where P , Q , R , S are non-singular . |
| 7 | pulling them fly sheets was good cos Maureen was yanking 'em right off really hard , how many pegs got broke ? loads were n't there ? |
| 8 | I 've told them that Tig is the new guardian of the threshold . |
| 9 | ‘ I tell them that acting is the burning of life — and the inner conflict lasts for a month … ’ |
| 10 | Tell them that blanketweed is a fashion accessory ? |
| 11 | No er sorry that you 're always sending them duplicate letters are n't you ? |
| 12 | One thing he did was to reassure them that planning was not as far advanced as they had feared . |
| 13 | Local authorities are to be given the leading role in the organisation of community care , but the decision to give them this responsibility was taken with the greatest possible reluctance and only after every other possibility had been explored . |
| 14 | What reinvigorated them this time was the passing reference in Tuesday 's column to former Sunderland ( and Darlington ) manager Billy Elliott ‘ the old flying winger , ’ recalls Ron . |
| 15 | To start giving them new projects is unrealistic and we ca n't authorise it . |
| 16 | What matters about lying is giving people false beliefs , just as giving them true ones is what matters about telling the truth . |
| 17 | The Oxfam-backed project set up to teach them new skills is another example of how far the charity has developed since it was founded in Oxford fifty years ago . |
| 18 | Do you tell them that smoking is banned on the Underground ? |
| 19 | The round dance does not tell the recruits the direction to food , but it does tell them that food is nearby . |
| 20 | When her husband began to sing a little , snapping his fingers in rhythm , she smiled and for a moment looked like a young girl again ; but the barman came immediately and reminded them that singing was not permitted . |
| 21 | Alex Ferry , confederation general secretary , said workers were saying managers were telling them compulsory redundancies were essential and warning of a ‘ last in , first out ’ selection procedure . |
| 22 | ‘ My pleasure , ’ he murmured suavely , and from then until Mrs Novakova came in to tell them that dinner was ready he engaged her in surface conversation that had nothing whatsoever to do with the reason for why she was there . |
| 23 | The identifiable failures of school science — the anti-science anti-technologists who can see science only as domination rather than that science as domination is itself a historical product , and the mass of people whose schooling teaches them that science is a specialized activity over which they neither have nor could have any control . |