Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] them [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 There was a great yearning among lay people to understand in terms of their own vernacular this inner experience of the faith , which , through the institutional influence of the Church , formally governed the structure of their lives , although their education may not have been such as to enable them to cope with the official language of the Church or highly intellectual theological exposition .
2 It takes the form partly of encouraging them to relate to the personal and subjective while boys begin to grapple with the impersonal and objective .
3 How , then , can we go about defining our strategy in the hope of getting them to react in the right way — the way we want them to ?
4 Quite possibly the ulterior motive was to convince the EEC states of the virtues of EFTA 's low tariffs , with the end objective of persuading them to return to the conference table to negotiate a multilateral trading agreement that would hold the two parts of Western Europe together .
5 Nenna would never have dreamed before this of asking them to look after the girls .
6 They felt this was important in helping them to get through the difficulties associated with unemployment .
7 Chapter 4 will show that the courts do , or at least could , play a part in controlling the quality of management decision making by laying down and enforcing appropriate standards of care and skill , but requiring judges to determine whether managers have complied with what are essentially procedural decision-making criteria is quite different from asking them to participate in the decision-making process itself .
8 But he was overruled by the others ; one judge said ‘ you had better appoint them judges ; and then I will retire , because I see no use in having them to act in the same capacity in which we are acting ourselves ’ .
9 IT IS unfair to accuse Wet Wet Wet 's Marti Pellow ( right ) of putting fans at risk by urging them to dance during the band 's Edinburgh concert .
10 controls those authorised persons who are members of it by requiring them to comply with the rules of the organisation .
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