Example sentences of "[v-ing] them [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It has been designed to lure shareholders by allowing them to keep a stake in LIN , and by offering a private fair market guarantee . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's showing we care for them , showing we do n't like what they are doing , helping them solve a problem . |
| 8 | However , it was a shaky start for the Lions today with four sparkling tries from threequarters helping them to salvage a victory . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The program works down the hierarchical spaces , rotating them to achieve a zero rotational error in each sub-space between the actual end of the mechanism and the reference point . |
| 11 | It has been shown above that those with larger mortgages and those on higher incomes benefit most from MITR , but one of the main arguments originally put forward to justify its existence was that it benefited first-time buyers , enabling them to purchase a house which would otherwise have been beyond their means . |
| 12 | The Birmingham-based company is understood to be the first in Europe with its ‘ AutoDeal ’ service which offers investors a telephone dealing system enabling them to place a purchase or sale order in the new BT shares from the start of trading 24 hours a day seven days a week . |
| 13 | Gorbachev , shortly before his resignation , sent a message to the representatives who were gathering in Alma Ata urging them to consider a form of Commonwealth citizenship so that all the former citizens of the USSR would feel their rights were protected in whichever republic they were resident . |
| 14 | I keep sending memos urging them to make a decision now regarding the next one in four year 's time and asking that BBC2 be set aside on the appointed dates for Ryder Cup coverage . |
| 15 | The British government argued , first , that such a change would have the effect of forcing them to adopt a type of system for documenting civil status which would have considerable administrative consequences and would impose new duties on the population . |
| 16 | The electorate will buy what they 're shown is right , though persuading them costs a lot of bucks . |
| 17 | These types hang around the Great in the hope of getting them to pull a string . |
| 18 | Similarly with public goods : there may be many potential suppliers of television broadcasts , but funding them presents a problem . |
| 19 | He had robbed another couple about 10 minutes before the killing , after parking his car and approaching them waving a gun . |
| 20 | The party expects its young hopefuls to fight at least one unwinnable seat in a rotting inner city or municipal wilderness before letting them have a crack at a seat in the safe suburbs . |
| 21 | Although you may be able to fob off your opponent by letting them have a copy of your accounts ledger , you should not be in a position where you have to write off for copy receipts ; all these documents should be properly filed . |
| 22 | How about going wild and making squares of patterns and joining them to make a sweater ? |
| 23 | One of the aims of 1992 National Breastfeeding Week ( May 18–24 ) is to make schoolkids aware of the natural method of feeding babies by asking them to design a poster . |
| 24 | Developers told Computer Reseller News that the company has several fixes in the works , including asking them to install a fan on a small board to blow directly on the chip . |
| 25 | It can not afford , however , to upset its bankers — not least by asking them to finance a settlement with the sub-contractors . |
| 26 | The vet was very kind but had to explain that Lizzie had severe heart failure , repeating himself several times before Marjorie and Bill could comprehend the situation ; he was asking them to make a decision — a decision to end Lizzie 's life . |
| 27 | A ‘ strong ’ letter will also be sent to the WBO asking them to consider a re-match with Jimenez because of the close nature of a verdict in which German judge Norbert Krosch scored the fight even at 115 points each . |
| 28 | There seems to be no end to the possible replies we could receive and the job of categorizing them seems a nightmare . |
| 29 | Evelyn stared into the blue eyes , willing them to give a flicker of understanding , of forgiveness . |
| 30 | If you have to go out to deliberately buy them the chances are that you wo n't but if you buy the occasional packet when you happen to see them you can have a grand time selecting them to effect a change on a sweater at the right time . |