Example sentences of "get them [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Americans got them to debate the League of Nations . |
| 2 | She showed these children a series of pictures and got them to tell a story about what they had seen . |
| 3 | Sober reflection would have shown him that the sensible procedure would have been to phone the police and get them to ask the Bomb Disposal Squad to come and check the bag out . |
| 4 | And I said , look , get them to do a section of mirage and then it up on the ceiling |
| 5 | Encourage these drug lords to stop the drug traffic and get them to use the money constructively . |
| 6 | Get them to put a sign up telling Mr Worsdale to contact the Shelbourne Hotel and ask for Mr Ward . |
| 7 | and you get them to make a will afterwards . |
| 8 | A couple of hundred years ago two Jesuit missionaries trying to find their way back to the Orinoco stumble across them , get them to build a raft and then pole the two Godmen several hundred miles south while the said Godmen preach them the Gospel and try to get them to wear Levis . |
| 9 | We had to get people round the table and get them to speak to one another and get them to share the cost . |
| 10 | ‘ Get to the hall — tell them what has happened , and get them to secure the Manse . |
| 11 | ‘ You can live quite cheaply in Miami , so once you 're out there on one job , you can contact other UK clients and get them to send the gear over and keep you busy for a few weeks . |
| 12 | We wanted to break the dreadful sex magazine mafia , allow people to buy what they wanted and maybe get them to understand the plumbing of sex . |
| 13 | And finally : ‘ Do n't merely talk , like some gasbags do , about shedding the last drop of your blood for your country — the difficulty with them , when the time comes , is getting them to shed the FIRST drop of their blood . ’ |
| 14 | was the defendants solicitors , the parties during nineteen ninety one , the two solicitors , had dealt with the question of costs and er perfectly normal way , the plaintiffs have their costs , drafted by er cost draughtsman , I understand that in-house draughtsman and erm they produced to Mr a bill for costs , er Mr looked at the bill and met counter proposals and he suggested other figures , erm , figures in the region of forty two thousand pounds , forty seven and fifty thousand pounds for the plaintiffs costs , the correspondence indicates that Mr then , now put forward what with respect seems to be entirely sensible suggestion that er really it would not be sensible to proceed with having the cost taxed , he said he did n't foresee any real difficulty in getting them to agree the costs and that er the common sense thing in the interest of all parties was to see if they could reach an overall , settlement er determining all the matters in dispute , effectively this would be what was to be done in respect of the surgery premises , there was I think , there is reference in accounted to another sec another premises as well which apparently were lease , er but are now formed part of the negotiations and er negotiations continued between the parties during nineteen ninety two , by the end of nineteen ninety two the negotiations were beginning to run into difficulties , the plaintiffs were beginning to put forward non negotiable final offers and er the result unfortunately was that in apparently nineteen ninety three the er negotiations into that broke down . |
| 15 | The technique of getting them to supply the missing dialogue after a silent viewing of a scene provides a good opportunity for you and them to find out what language they have at their command and how flexibly they can use it . |
| 16 | You can see it 's a damn sight more difficult than getting them to confront the Iraqis . |
| 17 | Now Mr Heseltine 's plan promises to boost their earnings by getting them to burn an extra 8 million tonnes of subsidised coal by not running down stocks rapidly and by displacing imported coal . |
| 18 | He treated reading as a team effort , getting them to read the Daily Mirror rather than the dull , babyish books on offer . |
| 19 | These types hang around the Great in the hope of getting them to pull a string . |
| 20 | At first he tried bribery , sending his agent Megabazos to Sparta to get them to create a diversion in Greece by invading Attica . |
| 21 | When this is the case , pre-meeting briefing of supporters to get them to ask the right questions ( ones that you can answer well ) and to t ring in relevant information and viewpoints is essential . |
| 22 | So my first act on Indian soil was to telex a friend at Weatherbys , the British racing bureaucrats , to get them to explain the facts of life to the Bombay Turf Club . |
| 23 | It struck me as wonderful stuff , so I got in touch and tried to get them to do the music for Doctor Who , but they just did n't have the time . |
| 24 | And , obviously to get them to do the right job in the right , within the right timescales . |
| 25 | er to get them to take the stuff away . |
| 26 | It was difficult to get them to see the relevance of some of the questions . ’ |
| 27 | but I wonder having said that justice is a matter of treating people fairly , not only punishing them , presumably , in a fair way , deciding what is a fair way to treat , justly whether a person who 's done something anti-social , is part of that fairness , trying to get them to see the the evil that they 've done . |
| 28 | He still maintains that he believes this , and makes a great show of sending off a manuscript to publishers down in London , trying to get them to publish a book expounding this view , but I know he 's just mischief-making again , and gets most of his pleasure from his acts of stunned disbelief and then righteous indignation when the manuscript is eventually returned . |
| 29 | It was only with great effort that was able to get them to arrange the Open Door Schooling visit so that it was useful as a teaching exercise , instead of being a ceremonial procession through the commune . |
| 30 | At a meeting of the Finance Committee members will pr , make a progress report on how the poll tax collection is going , and campaigners say they intend to put pressure on councillors in an attempt to get them to review the collection process . |