Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] them [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast , the few policies aimed at older workers have been positively intended to encourage them to withdraw from the labour market . |
| 2 | Their flattened bellies reflect their bottom-dwelling and fast water lifestyles , and they have rasping teeth in their suckermouths , which are designed to allow them to fasten onto the rocks and hold firm . |
| 3 | He threw a bottleful of his pills into the kitchen sink and tried to get them to go down the drain with the handle of a dishmop . |
| 4 | Rose , laughing , took the gloves away as he pretended to need them to wear about the house . |
| 5 | The North Sea Oil bonanza — money that should have been spent encouraging and harnessing the potential of young people to live in a new , modern world — was instead squandered paying them to stay on the dole and to stay away from schools , colleges and training . |
| 6 | In addition to alerting subjects to the fact that the experiment was concerned with subjective risk , this may have caused them to attend to the stimuli in ways which unnaturally stressed risk-related aspects of the situations . |
| 7 | The public library has lost its soul because it has been absorbed into the modern semi-literate culture and because it did not have the knowledge and experience gained across generations that the old private libraries had to enable them to cope with the world of mass circulation popular fiction , for example , rather than the People 's University that Hoggart remembers from his youth in the Hunslet district of Leeds . |
| 8 | Women in this situation had an important role and training had helped them to manage during the husband 's absence . |
| 9 | In both of these instances children need prompt attention and help to teach them to cope with the problem . |
| 10 | Er doctor says not only was the taxing officer right in what he did , but he should of gone further and as I say he should of erm disallowed more interest , the basis of which erm doctor puts forward that submission before me seems to be two fold , first he points out that in fact the plaintiffs failed to perfect the order of Mr Justice er , er sorry Mr Justice erm , until the twenty fifth of May nineteen ninety three and that was a , I think he would say a probable failure on part of the plaintiffs and their solicitors to do with what his solicitor had asked them to do in the letter of the twenty third of April nineteen ninety one . |
| 11 | Now the reason we 've asked them to talk to the government , government departments about this is to see what can be done . |
| 12 | However , now was not the time to probe into his previous daydreams , and before anything further could be said a shout came from Matt , who had left them to attend to the fire burning beneath the two billies of water which hung from an iron bar . |
| 13 | It reached a point where a number of people 's art collections began to be more valuable than the businesses that had allowed them to buy in the first place . ’ |
| 14 | New divorce legislation reported on Dec. 9 was said to grant unprecedented rights to women , allowing divorcees to seek compensation through the courts for housework which husbands had ordered them to do during the marriage . |
| 15 | His idea was that , as the Masai acquired more and more permanent waters , they would at first acquire more and more cattle ; indeed , the prospect of doing so would be the incentive required to get them to pay for the water in the first place . |
| 16 | We have always sought to maintain contact with all the parties and we have urged them to build on the fundamental principles already agreed . |