Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] them [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here knowledge of material practices and social understanding combine to enable them to read the text in specific ways . |
| 2 | I 've got some names and I want to use them to do a deal . ’ |
| 3 | She had forgotten to call them to report the accident . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When the police tried to get them to accept a re-route through an entirely Catholic area , they abandoned the march altogether and confined the event to a rally which was held in the open air in a car park in Foyle Street . |
| 6 | Students will be given support to enable them to identify the type of work they would prefer and the tutor will undertake the placement organisation with some contribution from the student . |
| 7 | A spokeswoman for Mersey Docks and Harbour Company said : ’ They are now quite old and have not been in regular use in recent years so it was decided to dismantle them to improve the appearance of the area . |
| 8 | If I had n't got through this time I was going to phone them to check a fault . ’ |
| 9 | Well I think , we 'll , we 'll see what , we 'll see what comes , if somebody else wishes to compete , compete for the Chair , the post of Chair , erm , then you may perhaps like to invite them to share the Chair with you , or , or , they can become the , the Vice Chair . |
| 10 | He told Stirling that he needed his best men himself and he was not going to allow them to join the SAS after the ‘ failure at Benghazi ’ . |
| 11 | The Liberal Democrats were not working on the hypothesis that the phone would ring to ask them to join a coalition government . |
| 12 | Dad often helps folks with their gardens and he is going to ask them to give a donation to Camphill Development Fund instead of giving him a present . |
| 13 | We are er going to ask them to compile a list of businesses which they are happy for us to approach . |
| 14 | How would the caring services react if we knew that our performance was being evaluated by the people we were serving , and if disabled people were always involved in deciding : which issues they felt were most important ; how the money should be spent ; and who they wanted to employ to support them to get the job done . |
| 15 | If they come up with a question maybe just find out what 's being it erm not just reaction to a particular behaviour , but asking them how the feeling , you know maybe pointing to the bit in their body that 's actually feeling butterflies or whatever and trying to help them to express the fears and , more importantly , to make them concrete in terms of play , drawing , or acting it out . |
| 16 | Undeterred , the ERA spent many months in courtship , trying to persuade them to invest the £750,000 needed . |
| 17 | And Norma was trying to persuade , because , it was for two adults and two children , she was trying to persuade them to take the boys with them . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The mugged man even had to ask them to call the police , claimed the Victim Support group . |
| 20 | That is a matter for future debate , certainly not for today when there is quite enough to be done in preparing colleges for self-governing status and ensuring that they have the support and expertise required to enable them to make a success of that . |
| 21 | He 'd managed to persuade them to get a message through to British Intelligence : the words ‘ Prime Minister ’ and ‘ Cadogan Square ’ . |