Example sentences of "[vb past] them [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even then research into the old approved schools showed children who experienced them had a reconviction rate 49 per cent higher than would otherwise have been expected from their characteristics and records . |
| 2 | Having recovered the sail , we made them bleed the line . |
| 3 | This made them hold the glider down and often caused overspeeding or even overrunning of the cable or parachute . |
| 4 | My soldiers were guarding the master copies of the very instructions that made them do the guarding . |
| 5 | ‘ I had the chance to go out when there were only four cars on the track , but I made them change the car which meant I went out in the busy section . ’ |
| 6 | Relentlessly he made them repeat every movement and worked them for hours on end until they were perfectly in unison . |
| 7 | Strings were apparently omitted since the small scale ( the whole box is less than 16″x9″ ) made them look a bit stupid . |
| 8 | Peterborough made them fight every inch of the way . |
| 9 | At the end of the day , however , Celtic just about deserved their triumph , though Dundee made them fight every inch of the way . |
| 10 | So the challenging headline " our creams and lotions are all used up " made them read the rest of the copy . |
| 11 | In fact we expected them to solve the problem for us . |
| 12 | The growing materialism of the age led them to envisage the hereafter as the eternal ‘ Now ’ , and depict survival in terms of the senses . |
| 13 | It was perhaps their awareness of this , rather than their arrogance , which led them to emphasize the relationship so strongly after Edward IV 's death . |
| 14 | It was perhaps their awareness of this , rather than their arrogance , which led them to emphasize the relationship so strongly after Edward IV 's death . |
| 15 | Like legislators , doctors set themselves up as women 's protectors and the preoccupation with women 's reproductive systems as the source of their illness and weakness led them to assume the role of moral guardian . |
| 16 | The young Royals flocked to Edina Ronay , along with customers from the world of showbusiness such as Marlon Brando who commissioned them to knit a sweater . |
| 17 | The year before , Maxims services had been tried out when the Ministry of the Court commissioned them to provide a banquet in the desert for a hundred people . |
| 18 | We were in our own parish and had never been to Henfield at all … we said we would obey the law , if they would show us any part that empowered them to take a man from his own poorhouse and put him into one of another parish . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Just move onto the next one then media trainer I started talking to the training school about doing some training for officers it started with C I D cos you often find that a D S is an acting D I and when we asked them to do an interview about a crime or incident they say we 've not done radio interviews before , so Phil has er supported it and we 're gon na run some sort of training scheme one day courses for them . |
| 21 | In Levison v Patent Steam Carpet Cleaning Co Ltd [ 1978 ] QB 69 the plaintiff telephoned the defendants and asked them to collect a carpet for cleaning . |
| 22 | We also asked them to name the party they thought best on economic matters for themselves and their families , for Britain as a whole , and for the unemployed . |
| 23 | ‘ It was only when the police asked them to turn the noise down that any of us had any chance of sleep . ’ |
| 24 | We got together a jury of 13 good hairdressers and asked them to nominate the hairdresser they most admired . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This no doubt explains one of Hudson 's tests on the schoolboys , which asked them to write a description of a scientist 's wife , and a novelist 's wife , not a novelist 's husband . |
| 27 | She asked them to donate a collection of drawings , watercolours and sketches as well as etchings , lino prints and engravings on metal . |
| 28 | ‘ The holidaymakers were having a party and one of the prisoners went and asked them to keep the noise down . |
| 29 | He therefore consulted the defendant sellers of agricultural products and asked them to recommend a herbicide that could be used later than usual . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |