Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] them [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | BHC engineers came up with a floppier , tapered skirt that allowed them to reduce the pressure of the air cushion . |
| 2 | The brontosaurs had long necks ( lower picture ) that enabled them to reach the high-growing conifers prevalent in the Jurassic . |
| 3 | On 1 November , the Germans again attacked the salient 's belly , but this time at night , a ruse that enabled them to capture the Messines Ridge . |
| 4 | It was a faculty common to all good sailors , the essential extra that enabled them to meet the seas whatever the conditions so that their craft ran straight rather than in the long zig-zags of the helmsman imprisoned by the compass and only reacting to the swing of its needle . |
| 5 | Nevertheless the conservatives who manned the Juntas were not provincial separatists : they were inspired , not merely by a vague programme of reform on a national level , but by a sense of order that forced them to see the necessity of a central government . |
| 6 | If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year . |
| 7 | She called the switchboard and asked them to page the physio on call , and was told she was in ITU with a patient and likely to be tied up for at least half an hour . |
| 8 | We got together a jury of 13 good hairdressers and asked them to nominate the hairdresser they most admired . |
| 9 | ‘ The holidaymakers were having a party and one of the prisoners went and asked them to keep the noise down . |
| 10 | While Jack and Kathleen dealt with the patient , Amy rang the switchboard and asked them to pass the message on to Dr Marumba . |
| 11 | For example , when Bernstein showed working-class children a sequence of pictures and asked them to tell the story contained there , they began so to speak from inside it : ‘ he kicks the ball through the window then the woman chases them ’ etc. ( 1971 ) . |
| 12 | WASL has written to many galleries , gallery co-ordinators and exhibition organisors and invited them to visit the organisation and view the collection . |
| 13 | He wrote to the royal couple saying that he appreciated the problems facing a young family and invited them to bring the Prince along as well . |
| 14 | I remember visiting a year or two ago a project in Mexico , where an American organization had moved in and made a careful study , decided that the ideal thing for the local people to do would be to raise chickens , so they put fences up , supplied them with goodness knows how many hundred thousand chickens ; within a year they 'd killed the chickens , pulled the fences down and used them to cook the chickens and they were back exactly where they were . |
| 15 | If Nigel was there she gave them blankets and told them to use the sofa . |
| 16 | Once inside her room she 'd called reception and told them to get the police . |
| 17 | This would have given the BRDC a £1.4m profit on their orginal investment and allowed them to retain the right to five per cent of any future public flotation . |
| 18 | ‘ Pompey 's third goal killed us off and allowed them to run the show . |
| 19 | Retaining only a dozen men to accompany the vehicles when they entered the grounds , he divided the remainder into two parties and dispatched them to cover the area north of the perimeter fence . |
| 20 | The ancient Chinese observed the fighting methods of certain animals and adapted them to form the basis of a martial arts system . |
| 21 | When the grille swung open he called two or three seamen to his side and ordered them to haul the corpse out onto the deck . |
| 22 | Historically governments gave firms very generous allowances and permitted them to offset the costs of new capital equipment against profits , so that in practice the total revenue from corporation tax has been relatively low as a share of all revenue . |
| 23 | Earlier the prince met top Korean businessmen and urged them to heed the teaching of ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius by balancing economics with the protection of the planet . |
| 24 | So , on my return home , I approached the French Federation and persuaded them to support the idea of a Student World Cup in France ’ , Bonfils recalled . |
| 25 | They also really used me over the T-shirts which got them busted — and persuaded them to change the shop name from Sex to Seditionaries . |
| 26 | Because of that , I have merely pointed out incontrovertible facts , and left them to draw the inevitable conclusions . ’ |