Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] them [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm really excited about seeing them live at Wembley . ’ |
| 2 | Their degree of preference for one party Over others had an important influence upon the usefulness-ratings they gave the media for helping them decide how to Vote ( those with clear preferences found the media less useful for that purpose ) but had little or no influence on other aspects of usefulness-ratings . |
| 3 | Those who found politics interesting in the campaign but had not been interested in politics a year earlier gave the press high ratings for helping them decide how to vote . |
| 4 | Those who read highbrow papers found their papers no more useful for helping them decide how to vote or for revealing politicians ' personalities , and only a little more useful for explaining political issues . |
| 5 | So amongst tabloid readers generally , but especially amongst Sun/Star readers , there was a dramatic difference between their overwhelming preference for television as a source of information and their reliance upon both press and television for helping them decide how to vote . |
| 6 | Our panel rated PEBs much lower than the press or television news for providing information on issues , but similar to the press for providing information on leaders , and close behind the press and television news for helping them decide how to vote . |
| 7 | Readers of the tabloid press overwhelmingly preferred television rather than the press as an information source but , like other voters , they had a relatively slight preference for television rather than the press for helping them decide how to vote . |
| 8 | In addition , Sotheby 's London Chief Executive Timothy Llewellyn explained , ‘ We have a notarised statement by a previous owner of the painting , Alexander Kozlenkov , given in the Land of Berlin and dated 26 January 1990 , that the picture was given to his late father , a colonel in the Soviet Army , by a German family who lived in the Schlossmuseum , in gratitude for helping them obtain food during the occupation . |
| 9 | His team are already 4–2 down to Moscow Spartak and , after seeing them allow Tottenham to win a game well in Liverpool 's grasp , Souness said : ‘ I 'm disappointed because it is my job on the line . |
| 10 | She says that after hearing them sing and finding out they were srtanded , she lent them her house . |
| 11 | to sort of make them go round |
| 12 | But it does recognize the need for the educators to find ways of helping them cope . |
| 13 | The challenge of meeting all children 's needs and of helping them achieve their rights can only be met by concerted efforts of governments of multi-lateral agencies and bi-lateral donors , as well as by the path-breaking initiatives of N G Os such as Save The Children . |
| 14 | Exchange visits between company and school have kept the project going and Courtaulds is now looking at the possibility of helping them design a fibre spinning rig . |
| 15 | Nat West is to spend £1.5M on training branch managers and Small business Advisers with the aim of helping them understand small firms ' needs more clearly . |
| 16 | For many patients , brief problem-orientated outpatient care seems to be a very satisfactory means of helping them tackle the difficulties . |
| 17 | With , with regards to Camco 's Eastern European sales drive , does this have any er , implications in terms of er , working capital movements , in terms of helping them fund those acquisitions and what sort of er , provisions perhaps , are you taking on those sales ? |
| 18 | Children with cerebral palsy ca n't control , their muscles , or voices , but there is a way of helping them develop . |
| 19 | Unemployed people are given training opportunities in the hope of helping them find work . |
| 20 | We pour much time , money , anxiety and effort into our children simply for the pleasure of seeing them grow into the kind of people we long for them to be . |
| 21 | After that the solid throb of their engines and the thrill of seeing them skim to a halt on the waters of Poole Harbour were mere memories , although they continued to give excellent service in other parts of the world and a travel company has recently introduced a nostalgic flying-boat holiday across Africa on the route once used by Imperial Airways . |
| 22 | ED BICKNELL is manager of Dire Straits who he says that he wanted to represent within five minutes of seeing them live . |
| 23 | the festivals car park , you know the whole thing and I mean then he kicked them off did n't he , so they moved up to Cross Street so in a way it 's their own fault , they could of let them stay there , I mean every body wants to be settled somewhere like |
| 24 | They never get a day off , nobody thinks of letting them go off on a training course , they never get the chance to keep up and yet they are expected to be the fount of all knowledge . |
| 25 | These guidelines shape who we are , our beliefs , values and attitudes , and we are understandably terrified of letting them go , whether we react in compliance with them or against them . |
| 26 | So the Milettis had realized the threat to their schemes which the fake letter would pose and had no intention of letting them see it ! |
| 27 | And it sort of lets them know who you belong to . |
| 28 | The possibilities for recasting the UK accounts are being examined , with the intention of making them reflect the real resource use , or output contribution , of the public sector , rather than simply its share of expenditure . |
| 29 | The recollections of those who worked with him in the war years show a striking convergence : volunteers were won over instantly by the self-assured prophetic tone in which he discussed the war and by his knack of making them feel that they had been singled out to receive a confidence . |
| 30 | One reason is that women , particularly in the Third World , are often not aware of the real dangers of contraception because health staff and pharmaceutical companies keep them in ignorance for fear of making them stay away from the clinic . |