Example sentences of "[verb] them [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We want to see them receive a contract of employment which would extend their rights , particularly in relation to health and safety . |
| 2 | Strings were apparently omitted since the small scale ( the whole box is less than 16″x9″ ) made them look a bit stupid . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It 's showing we care for them , showing we do n't like what they are doing , helping them solve a problem . |
| 5 | Head of Department : ‘ We already make them purchase a pad plus two HB pencils — total £1·50 for Art for the parents . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | To name but two examples , we have seen the US use chemical warfare when they dropped 17 million gallons of Agents Orange , Blue and White on Vietnam ; and we have seen them feed a germ which induced a potentially fatal fever into Cuba 's water supply . |
| 8 | If there are those in our party who approach this subject in a niggling , grudging spirit , who would have to have forced out of their reluctant hands one concession after another , if they be a majority , in God 's name let them choose a man to lead them . |
| 9 | let them pull a cow collar , wi it was what they call cow collar learn , the way to learn them . |
| 10 | Let them commission a research team to examine the phrase in all the languages of the world , to see how it varies , to discover what its sounds denote to those who hear them , to find out if the measure of happiness changes according to the richness of the phrasing . |
| 11 | ‘ You let them learn a lot of experience through themselves , ’ one of the older officers said . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It 's as if everyone else had given up and the Government then said , ‘ Oh , give the workers some money and let them have a go . ’ |
| 14 | You 'd people think it 's easy let them have a go at it . |
| 15 | Well , let them have a go at you , you do n't have to do what they say . |
| 16 | We 'll eat stra virtually fairly soon and then let them have a look at them . |
| 17 | Let them have a prospectus to take away with them and if they have already decided to bring their child to your school take the minimum of details at this stage . |
| 18 | She had not made them learn a definition of a sentence , which would be entirely inappropriate for this age group , nor did she ask them to complete meaningless exercises . |
| 19 | " Let's just see them find a story-teller to beat him . " |
| 20 | The property has been stolen from Gloucestershire , Herefordshire , Worcestershire , perhaps Oxfordshire and the police want to trace the owners to help them build a pattern linking the burglaries . |
| 21 | Shortly after the formation of Apple Films ( a subsidiary of the Beatles ' Apple Corps Ltd ) , Ringo and his associate Hilary Gerard had approached us to help them make a film about Arthurian legends and " Magical Britain " . |
| 22 | Elderly people may turn to a younger relative or friend to help them host a party . |
| 23 | To help them find a way out of the morass they had jumped into . |
| 24 | They 've built a model of the Venetian coast to help them find a way of saving the historic Italian city from potential disaster . |
| 25 | Organisational reforms have tried to help them find a voice : through positive discrimination in the form of reserved seats on committees at all levels ; through National Women 's Officers ; through Women 's Advisory Committees which run parallel to the decision-making committees of the unions and have free access to the latter but no voting rights . |
| 26 | Banks may keep surplus liquidity to help them resist a squeeze . |
| 27 | They therefore wanted to encourage dialogue and to provide members with a range of objectives for their boards to help them establish a plan of development . |
| 28 | The public are becoming aware that they do n't need an Oxford solicitor to help them buy a home in Oxford . |
| 29 | They 've got to a adjust the tie backs , they have n't put the tie backs up yet because they 've got to come down a bit , I just hung them up to let them drop a bit . |
| 30 | He will now use some of the spare days on tour to let them have a bit of a rest . ’ |