Example sentences of "he [vb past] them [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He told them to leave the house immediately and it would appear that they did not take him seriously but laughed when he said this . |
| 2 | Once the commotion had died down , he told them to break the time pencils and get to work . |
| 3 | Carver knew for a fact that Hauser had a collection of Roosevelt film clips , that he studied them to perfect the famous American president 's mannerisms . |
| 4 | He encouraged them to tackle the widespread Highland areas still under survey so that maps and memoirs could be published in an organised manner . |
| 5 | He had to keep his arms free as he needed them to keep the snake from suffocating him . |
| 6 | He urged them to back the Brady plan , pointing to the socio-political unrest that might follow the failure to provide economic support for strategically important developing countries . |
| 7 | His eyes filled with water and he rubbed them to remove the dirt . |
| 8 | The same attitude is recognizable in the fragments of the histories of Posidonius , the pupil of Panaetius who , amidst all his philosophical work , decided to become the continuator of Polybius for the period after 146 B.C. It is uncertain whether Posidonius concluded his histories with the events of Sulla 's dictatorship or whether he extended them to include the Eastern wars of Pompey . |