Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] them [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half-way up they met Pipkin , who was small enough first to let them pass and then to turn round and follow them . |
| 2 | ‘ I was terribly proud to hear them say that ’ . |
| 3 | Viewers also voted Terry Wogan the most overrated performer for the second year in succession and Jeremy Beadle as the person most likely to make them switch off . |
| 4 | They are used to politicians listening with some care to their demands , and the evidence of this attention and the obvious impact of general elections is usually sufficient to make them feel that the old maxims of the Westminster model still have some meaning . |
| 5 | Oh I see , yes , that 's right Well let them mark their own I mean who 's gon na cheat ? |
| 6 | Far better to let them grow up safe than expose them by making himself conspicuous . |
| 7 | They know about science from television and from their school teacher , and any other source of information to them is really beneficial to let them make a sensible decision . |
| 8 | Crucially , they found it almost impossible to make them work for a wage . |
| 9 | These clubs have been part of the backbone of British rugby for decades , but Mr Salmon would obviously be quite happy to see them fade into extinction . |
| 10 | And that I , I would n't be adverse , I know it means you know you , you , if you put s some extra into one thing you 've got to take it away from somewhere else , but I , I , I would be quite happy to see them look at special needs and whether we actually need even more careers officer time for that . |
| 11 | No one saw them go . ’ |
| 12 | The security at the main gate must have been too tight to let them get established , but tucked away around the perimeter fence they were less of an eyesore and small nuisance . |
| 13 | and things , job families er , we 've got that already and we 've got , there 's gon na be the computer thing on careers but you see we 've only managed this year to get it brought down from year eleven , somebody who went into this , keeping it very close to myself , to bring it down to year ten they 're actually you know , it 's very , very difficult to let them remove it and I ca n't see that you can then make that down to ninth year just yet . |
| 14 | The years of slavery are in some measure paid for by the clothes and jewellery heaped upon them by the Egyptians , now only too anxious to see them go . |