Example sentences of "n't [verb] them [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mais je me dis , des enfants c'est des enfants , on peut pas les faire penser comme des adultes , on peut pas — ‘ I tell myself , children are children ; one ca n't make them think like adults — one just ca n't ’ |
| 2 | Sunday nights have always been a problem for the serious cinemagoer , since this is the night that brings out the lads whose parents do n't make them go to bed early before a fresh week at school begins . |
| 3 | ‘ Surely they ca n't make them fly through that , can they ? ’ |
| 4 | He did n't want them jailed in the first place . |
| 5 | Er Mr Ashdown says er no reason to disagree with him , that he was always in favour of the things in the social contract , but he did n't want them handled in that kind of manner . |
| 6 | You do n't want them to go to the police , do you ? ’ |
| 7 | Erm things you would and you would n't want them connected to the mains , stuck in your mouth . |
| 8 | If men want young women , they do n't want them packaged in an old body and mind . |
| 9 | I did n't want them living with me , in my Galaxy . |
| 10 | We have a serious mission to accomplish , we four and I do n't want them getting in the way . ’ |
| 11 | The boys look , make sure the boys look reasonably presentable with a clean jumper or something , I 'm taking photographs to send up to your mum and do n't want them looking like scruffy oh look stop sniffing please . |
| 12 | Er and obviously if we 've got thousands of those coming to each three regional offices we 've got to find some method of distributing them , we do n't want them left in the office do we ? |
| 13 | Needless to say he might have a tendency to end up doing what he would n't want them doing amongst slurry and such like but . |
| 14 | I do n't want them paying for someone else 's children . |
| 15 | They do n't want them arrested for doing what they are trained for , so they do n't arrest agents of Argentina . |
| 16 | You do n't want them emerging with the queasy feeling they could get whacked over the head on their way back to the car . |
| 17 | I doubt if they would in this well I would n't want them to come in the fog |
| 18 | Well you did n't want them sitting till dark then go off did you ? |
| 19 | On Saturday morning I want them thinking , I do n't want them going into their shells . |
| 20 | And erm and I made the point that I tipped all your lot out of I said what and I had n't let them go in the classroom and I said it 's a new thing but I said they got their coats on they 're too macho to wear them that 's their problem , you know ! |
| 21 | Clarke 's knowledge seeking technophilic characters are little better-drawn than Asimov 's , but you wo n't catch them sitting in windowless cabins . |
| 22 | They have short attention spans so do n't expect them to sit for hours on end without fidgeting , yawning or falling asleep . |
| 23 | If you see prepared hyacinths still on sale , do n't expect them to flower at Christmas — it 's too late . |
| 24 | In any case she had not expected that her role in the assessment would be limited to receiving information back from an EWO : ‘ We did n't ask for it [ the assessment ] — it was the education system who said it should be done — if I accept them into my home I do n't expect them to disappear for twelve months , if they invited themselves in . ’ |
| 25 | He took his glasses off and put them on the table , and his eyes were dancing as she had n't seen them dance since the night he had revealed the identity of Miguelito . |
| 26 | okay , round the base of your thumb , basically what we want to do is we want to clamp these fingers in so they ca n't come un unstuck , we want to push them together because she ca n't keep them shut like that , but the next thing is that you come round to the back where the little finger is , the next time you come round here , you 're gon na come round to about the first thumb joint okay and then you 're gon na go over the top okay and if you come round again the little thumb , by , by the little finger , you come round again to the thumb joint okay , come over the top again , round , we 're just making really like the figure of eight , but all the time we 're keeping off of this wrist here and I 'm keeping her fingers in , are you alright still ? |
| 27 | It was peaceful with the plop-of the gas fire and the dark sky outside through the window , for like many old people Doris did not draw her curtains till late and Linda did not feel like going back to the bustle of tea-time , but she could n't keep them waiting for their tea . |
| 28 | Er , I have n't got them divided into |
| 29 | I did n't put a blind up there cos we were so far away I do n't like them looking at your window |
| 30 | We did n't like them coming in the police station , they used to come into our parade room where our men were having food , and you can imagine them coming in a bit lousy and so on . |