Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] them [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then you can paint or cover them to match the colour of the flowers you 're going to put in them . |
| 2 | Leave them natural or paint them to suit the rest of the decoration . |
| 3 | According to the circumstances , nurses either help patients to cope with enforced dependence ( short- or long-term ) , or help them to regain the level of independence to which they were accustomed prior to the episode of ill-health . |
| 4 | Hard scientific evidence must either help the police to use hypnosis safely or lead them to reject the technique altogether . |
| 5 | If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year . |
| 6 | She called the switchboard and asked them to page the physio on call , and was told she was in ITU with a patient and likely to be tied up for at least half an hour . |
| 7 | In Levison v Patent Steam Carpet Cleaning Co Ltd [ 1978 ] QB 69 the plaintiff telephoned the defendants and asked them to collect a carpet for cleaning . |
| 8 | We got together a jury of 13 good hairdressers and asked them to nominate the hairdresser they most admired . |
| 9 | ‘ The holidaymakers were having a party and one of the prisoners went and asked them to keep the noise down . |
| 10 | While Jack and Kathleen dealt with the patient , Amy rang the switchboard and asked them to pass the message on to Dr Marumba . |
| 11 | He therefore consulted the defendant sellers of agricultural products and asked them to recommend a herbicide that could be used later than usual . |
| 12 | For example , when Bernstein showed working-class children a sequence of pictures and asked them to tell the story contained there , they began so to speak from inside it : ‘ he kicks the ball through the window then the woman chases them ’ etc. ( 1971 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ That is what makes them different from other student movements , since they work with the oppressed and underprivileged , making them more aware of their role and situation in society and helping them to realise the need to organise themselves and to start doing the work by themselves . ’ |
| 14 | The newer , smaller , spontaneous groups — of parents with mentally handicapped children , for example must be voluntary and self-help to retain their independence and to enable them to build the self-respect of their members . |
| 15 | The purpose of the narthex was to accommodate those , such as penitents , who were not permitted to enter the church , and to enable them to hear the service . |
| 16 | He could double and halve small numbers , decompose the calculation into components and recombine them to find the solution . |
| 17 | She showed these children a series of pictures and got them to tell a story about what they had seen . |
| 18 | On Aug. 18 Finance Minister Tsutomu Hata had attempted to restore confidence by announcing a series of measures aimed at discouraging financial institutions from selling shares until the end of September , and allowing them to postpone the reporting of unrealised losses on share holdings until the end of the financial year , in March 1993 . |
| 19 | Drama quickly reveals to children the effectiveness of language , building up their language resources and allowing them to develop an awareness of a whole range of linguistic choices and registers . |
| 20 | WASL has written to many galleries , gallery co-ordinators and exhibition organisors and invited them to visit the organisation and view the collection . |
| 21 | He wrote to the royal couple saying that he appreciated the problems facing a young family and invited them to bring the Prince along as well . |
| 22 | Consequently , all visitors entering the Exhibition Room on Survey days were approached by a member of the Library 's staff who outlined to them the object of the exercise and invited them to complete a questionnaire . |
| 23 | She ripped a cushion cover into strips and used them to make a gag . |
| 24 | To tell these in their own right and expect them to retain the charm they got from their larger setting would be a terrible error , an error to which Tolkien would be more sensitive than any man alive . |
| 25 | You start out with good intentions , helping with the homework , making it fun : you lay out the chocolate drops on the giant musical stave and challenge them to find the note ‘ B ’ and eat it : you run supportively alongside the wobbling bicycle , getting your ankles chewed up by sharp pedals . |
| 26 | Between demonstrates how a multiplicity of different discursive systems intertwine to form the substrata of an individual mind which plays them off against each other , combines them and uses them to generate the repertory of stories that determine how she ‘ reads ’ the world in which she lives . |
| 27 | It alerts the lender on any negative information and allows them to freeze the account , close it , adjust the limit or even to counsel the borrower . |
| 28 | If Nigel was there she gave them blankets and told them to use the sofa . |
| 29 | for through running and persuade them to use the spur as a terminal stub . |
| 30 | Like advertisements , window displays aim to attract the customers ' attention and persuade them to enter the shop and buy . |