Example sentences of "[verb] them [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She used the cry of her voice to draw them to her , allowing them first to fly away and then encouraging them to swoop back at the height of their arc of flight . |
| 2 | We 're told it 's a very close thing , the decision not to participate erm and there were certain technical and theoretical reasons , I think , that led them to come down on the side of not . |
| 3 | But I did not want them to stay out in the cold all night , so I kept my window open to look out for them . |
| 4 | What do we want them to get out of the advertising ? |
| 5 | Accordingly it is interesting to speculate to what extent these attitudes have caused British businessmen to adopt short time-horizons in making decisions — with negative consequences for longer-term growth performance — because their main objective is to acquire sufficient wealth to enable them to move on to the better things in life . |
| 6 | The court usher appeared then and asked them to move out into the corridor . |
| 7 | And yet , what is required , if teachers are ever to enjoy the prestige of true professionals , is to encourage them to reach out into the society they are there to serve , rather than for them to retreat behind their school walls . |
| 8 | In the 1987 budget , a " carryback " was introduced for BES investors , enabling them to carry back to the previous tax year relief on up to 15,000 invested . |
| 9 | But it 's the war , ’ she added without guile , and because the chief had taken a liking to the woman with the thick Liverpool accent who met her gaze without flinching , she told them to cut along to the galley ; if they were lucky they might just make standeasy . |
| 10 | Recent storms have obviously set them loose , causing them to wash up on the shoreline . |
| 11 | This irritates the worms sufficiently to cause them to crawl up to the surface immediately , where they can be collected easily in daylight . |
| 12 | It is a trend that supermarkets are belatedly beginning to recognise and is forcing them to break out of the straight jacket of their centralised buying habits . |
| 13 | This gave them a little more freedom , and his habit of falling asleep in the afternoons allowed them to get out of the house sometimes . |
| 14 | The women have become more feminist in their outlook and this has helped them to stand up against the men of the villages and take a firm stance in their lives . |
| 15 | They have contributed only 39% of what the central government requires them to hand over in the first three months of the year . |
| 16 | Mr Fu , probably illiterate , can not get the kind of job with a township enterprise that would enable them to keep up with the Lis . |
| 17 | When they were long enough , he intended to curl them and allow them to extend down at the sides of his mouth . |
| 18 | AI workers are , by and large , naive materialists and mechanists , and for them those are not positions to be justified , but simply assumptions that allow them to get on with the job of constructing mechanical analogues or simulations of ourselves , who are , in Minsky 's memorable phrase , ‘ meat machines ’ . |
| 19 | It 's just — I want to go home and tell them to shut up about the exam results and let me do my own thing and leave me alone . |
| 20 | In preparation for the ceremony of toppling , a huge power pylon containing the loaves to allow them to fall out into the water , the group made an application to be granted an exemption from the law prohibiting the dumping of waste at sea . |
| 21 | But I mean we also , we , I mean we 're providing a service for them to allow them to come on off the street , use the bus , right , but at the same time were trying to provide services for them because one of the things that came out in a consultation was , young people did n't feel that there was enough information for them in the town . |
| 22 | Given all these considerations , some supposedly empirical , but others more clearly normative , Schumpeter concluded that the proper role of the people was to choose their rulers through competitive elections , and then leave them to get on with the business of governing . |
| 23 | ‘ Although our main aim is to provide accommodation and care ’ , he says , ‘ we also give advice and support to homeless people and try to assist them to resettle back in the community . |
| 24 | But the room was suddenly bathed in light and Nancy Leadbetter , who had pressed all the switches by the door , was among them and telling them to go out to the barbecue because that was where the fun was about to begin . |
| 25 | Second , at the very tip of their abdomen they possess a hook-like structure which enables them to hold on to the shell . |