Example sentences of "[to-vb] them [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , it was great to see them go back into the wild when they were old enough . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Two senior boys have expressed an interest in attending a course to enable them to participate more in the running of the club [ the J.G.V.A. has agreed to pay their fees ] a volunteer Diane Prior has joined the staff , Laura Brown has been given a date for mini bus driving test , two staff members have attended a Youth Work Conference for South West Edinburgh — G. Lightheart has ordered new equipment . |
| 4 | Two senior boys have expressed an interest in attending a course to enable them to participate more in the running of the club ( the J.G.V.A. has agreed to pay their fees ) a volunteer Diane Prior has joined the staff , Laura Brown has been given a date for mini bus driving test , two staff members have attended a Youth Work Conference for South West Edinburgh — G. Lightheart has ordered new equipment . |
| 5 | And booksellers were ready for it with pretty much the right books at the right prices to enable them to compete effectively for the consumer 's cautiously placed pound . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This irritates the worms sufficiently to cause them to crawl up to the surface immediately , where they can be collected easily in daylight . |
| 8 | In The Hitch-hiker 's Guide to the Galaxy the author , Douglas Adams , describes a planet inhabited by a race of hyperintelligent pan-dimensional beings who build a hyperintelligent computer to help them come up with the answer to Life , the Universe and Everything . |
| 9 | Therefore , the Government 's recent announcement of £5.4 million of new grants to encourage the formation of producer marketing groups to help them get closer to the market , and the establishment in the Ministry of Agriculture of a new market task force , are to be warmly welcomed . |
| 10 | And I think we have got to let them compete competitively with the private sector , we 've got to push them further out . |
| 11 | not to let them get out of the pov that 's what I 'm saying , it suits them because they can buy up property much cheaper than if that two hundred pounds a week that 's being spent on bed and breakfast , that , they were spent on helping them with the problems as they are at the moment . |
| 12 | The Sex Disqualification ( Removal ) Act 1919 , designed to facilitate the admission of women to the House of Commons but worded in such a way as to be apt to give them access also to the House of Lords was seized upon by Viscountess Rhondda as having this effect but the Committee of Privileges refused to endorse her claim and the House rejected it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | All sorts of tricks were tried in order to harden the conkers — gentle baking , soaking in a mixture of salt and vinegar , but I think the best way was to allow them to harden naturally in the sun on a window sill . |
| 15 | But it does not follow from this , as Rollin seems to suppose , that we ought to allow them to do so in the absence of clear signs of distress . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If we can do that and if we can hold the dam , as it were , for a few more years , that will give us time to assemble the ethical arguments against whaling , and to get them diffused further in the world . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | More formally , the social procedures which initiate people into new roles and responsibilities can help to equip them to respond positively to the challenge of the new . |
| 20 | I 've arranged to have them transferred ashore to the local hospital . |
| 21 | The reason Chandler can get away with this is because they 've chosen to use a slotted headstock with side-mounted Kluson machines , and that 's what gives the strings the necessary angle to stop them jumping out of the nut slots . |
| 22 | To prevent them rolling off into the water , the eggs are cuneiform , or wedge-shaped : narrow at one end and broad at the other . |
| 23 | The explanation appears to be that shepherds at high altitudes reverse their cigars in their mouths to prevent them blowing out in the wind ! |
| 24 | After they had gone in and resumed their grind in the usual places , Rose came out to him and said gently , ‘ You were terrible , Daddy , to make them go down to the lake . ’ |
| 25 | Thus the fast process may make a permanent contribution during the sensitive period , while its influence later would adjust the cortical feature detectors , tending to make them respond most to the unusual combinations and coincidences in their input . |