Example sentences of "we [verb] them [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead we made them talk about where they lived and about their families . |
| 2 | In our 1979 main survey , we asked a series of important questions to discover how people were influenced by the disclosure of either APR or the total credit cost , or both , when we asked them to choose between rival credit terms . |
| 3 | Before you start , ask yourself : what are our objectives , what message are we trying to get across , which people do we want to reach , what emotions should they feel , what responses are we looking for , what do we want them to take from this event — in person or through the media and press ? |
| 4 | We did not go in search of miracles , we invited them to come to us . |
| 5 | We want them looked after in a caring way , and treated as children , not as bits of evidence in some concocted case about satanism or something . ’ |
| 6 | No : if we want them to fall in love with us , we 'll just have to ignore them , and hope they do n't go away . |
| 7 | David Fullerton , of the Sierra Club , an environmental lobby group , says : ‘ They want to use new technology or more water while we want them to talk about the crops they 're growing . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We want them to grow with the company . ’ |
| 9 | We tell them to be quiet because we want them to look at television , or say it 's too wet to go out for a walk when they are wanting to wear their new wellies . |
| 10 | We want them improved for the coming year and certainly by the first year of the council tax . |
| 11 | Yes , a useful point of clarification because actually we bid to the , we 've made a submission to the Department of Transport to install cameras on their behalf on their roads and we want them to pay for them . |
| 12 | Older people we know want to be offered more ways of preventing illness , so you know , they have to really be informed , er we want them to know about it so then they can make the choice as to whether they take it up with their G P . |
| 13 | Others have not yet let us have statements of needs and we urge them to work with us to produce them . |
| 14 | So , we let them come into the harbour approaches , the narrowing river-mouth , where they must bunch and slow to avoid running aground on the sand-bars , then pound them from here while still they can not reach us effectively . |
| 15 | If we told them to point to the empty box they would do so ; but would revert to pointing to the baited box again on the next trial . |
| 16 | In our mind we watch them happen in the future . |
| 17 | In our ignorance we interpret them according to the prevailing cultural myths . |
| 18 | Whatever our Customers want to say we like them to speak to the staff at Shell stations first . |
| 19 | We hear them preaching in our own language about the marvels of God . |
| 20 | When we hear them bellow on the |
| 21 | ‘ He 's always keeping his eyes on what the kids are wearing and nudging us about what we see out there , what we hear them asking for , ’ says Caroline Freeman , an Armanishly elegant stick insect who works on his British team . |
| 22 | Just twelve chapters later we hear them saying to Aaron , ‘ Up , make us gods , who shall go before us ; as for this Moses , the man who brought us up out of Egypt , we do not know what has become of him . ’ |
| 23 | My mother , having strict ideas about morality , would never allow me to go to balere in the evenings , so we spent them sitting on a wall near our house , usually with other friends . |
| 24 | Yeah , we 're talking about children who you know thirteen , fourteen , fifteen , which are growing up a bit , but we get them altered and we get them made for them , we used to get them made and er still do I think . |
| 25 | We get them to balance over the phone . |
| 26 | The point is adequately made if we restrict gene values to single figures , that is if we allow them to range from -9 to +9 . |
| 27 | When we go into schools where computers are actually in use , we find them serving as expensive page turners , mimicking programmed instruction texts . |
| 28 | We watched them disappear into the dusk as we anchored at the little island of Likangloe , where we had witnessed our first python hunt . |
| 29 | We watched them get into a small carriage which took them off to their new residence . |
| 30 | When releasing barn owls that have been in captivity for a long time , we keep them confined to the barn until we 're sure that they are going to adapt happily to their new surrounding . ( ) |