Example sentences of "them [to-vb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many old people tell their elderly friends , in confidence , that although they worry sometimes about various things in the house that need attention and are beyond their capabilities , they do n't like to keep mentioning ‘ this and that ’ to their children when they visit , as they are only too delighted to see them and feel it is a bit hard to put them to work as soon as they arrive . |
| 2 | It can be as difficult for them to adjust as it is for the individual in distress . |
| 3 | I merely want to make the limited point that many of these students — who may be highly intelligent — do not have the existing familiarity with poetry , not to mention the general knowledge and cultural literacy , that would enable them to engage as equals in genuinely critical discussion . |
| 4 | You did n't want them to look as well : you wanted them to look better . |
| 5 | In the wild this may allow them to escape as the predator may lose interest in them , but in the laboratory the length of time they remain in this state before righting themselves is a good measure of their fear level . |
| 6 | Sometimes they continue to give unasked-for advice and exert emotional pressure to get them to do as they want . |
| 7 | They passed an Emergency Powers Act which , under the guise of doing anything they felt necessary to ‘ relieve the distress of the people ’ , allowed them to do as they pleased without resorting to the Volkstag for authority . |
| 8 | Minton encouraged them to do as they pleased and a high time was had whilst he paid the bills . |
| 9 | Back home , impatient sports editors waited for them to file as they drank the Latium hills dry of Chianti . |
| 10 | When they needed her there was no familiarity too close for them to keep as they brushed their feathers against her cheek and went toppling along her arms to eat out of her hands — then she could feel they loved her . |
| 11 | What we did say did n't encourage them to chat as we 'd always turn the conversation round to why they were keeping us like this . |
| 12 | Not so much by getting them to understand as frightening them with a Breathalyser test and losing their licence . |
| 13 | Ta'kwanya refers to all those particular cultural capabilities a specific type of people have that enable them to live as they do : it is their means of living and fulfilling their material needs ; it is their way of doing things in the material sense . |
| 14 | The senate , however , consisted of more members of the nobility than of the emerging burgher class , for their economic situation was not strong enough to enable them to develop as they did in the cities of northern Italy and elsewhere in Europe . |
| 15 | He had n't expected them to act as they had . |
| 16 | We wanted them to say as they leave ‘ I have seen Kylie Minogue ’ . |
| 17 | Firestone suggests that women 's liberation requires them to become as liberated from their bodies as men are : ‘ Feminism is the inevitable female response to the development of a technology capable of freeing women from the tyranny of their sexual-reproductive roles ’ ( 1971 : 35 ) . |