Example sentences of "[v-ing] they [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helping them recognize the feeling of when they want to go can be an important component for the older pre-school child . |
| 2 | We will ensure that all 14–19 year olds have a personal tutor and careers advice , helping them build the foundations for personal fulfilment and success . |
| 3 | Recognizing the fact that they do not seem to be enjoying their children and are missing the fun of childhood can be one way into helping them realize the value of a positive approach . |
| 4 | For many patients , brief problem-orientated outpatient care seems to be a very satisfactory means of helping them tackle the difficulties . |
| 5 | Therapy will aim to reduce the guilt of such people by helping them to decide whether they will continue to practise oral sex , and , if so , to lessen the conflict within them by helping them accept the activity as pleasurable and human and not highly deviant . |
| 6 | It proposes packing foundation boards with regional cultural and professional bigwigs , in fixed proportions to local politicians , and letting them choose the savings-bank bosses . |
| 7 | But there 's nothing wrong with challenging people on a personal level and letting them make the choices … ’ |
| 8 | There is much to be said for continuing the practice of reading to children right through the later primary years , letting them hear the cadences of book language and , where possible , letting them follow the text as well . |
| 9 | ‘ The decision was to give them a lot of freedom , letting them take the pictures they liked so long as their interpretations were true to the general concept . |
| 10 | Apart from letting them share the brand name and an instant distribution deal , The Wedding Present did not have the time to take on any record company functions for the bands . |
| 11 | There is much to be said for continuing the practice of reading to children right through the later primary years , letting them hear the cadences of book language and , where possible , letting them follow the text as well . |
| 12 | Before leaving America she gave away much of her furniture to family and friends and was able to enjoy letting them have the pieces they had always liked . |
| 13 | What I 've recorded and just letting them have the tapes . |
| 14 | In some ranges , you can buy decor panels to fit the front of specially designed built-in appliances , making them match the cupboards . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Or they were the wings of that sweet-faced Gabriel who appears in so many pictures , whose scarlet plumes brush the ceiling of the bedroom in which he has alighted ; whose shadow fills the whole of the bedroom wall , whose robes cover half the bedroom carpet and whose single , beckoning finger silences the virgins of history , making them forget the books which they have been surprised reading , and sends them sinking to their knees . |
| 17 | one is that i it may be that the old moral economy worked because the peasants recognized that , in a sense , that was the way they w well they , they could not stand up and criticize the landlord th the , the most they could do was to try and get the landlord to behave in a reasonable way , and that within that there would then be the sub-culture , the counter-culture of , of beginnings of mutual aid and what is happening in is in part that the communists are making them think the old moral economy work , but in part they are picking up on those sub- culture bits because the , the , the whole of mutual aid idea is , is coming from existing peasant cooperations . |
| 18 | One of the first problems faced by the Republic was that most of the colonies outside New England were loyal to the Stuart monarchs , and so in the early 1650s considerable effort had to be put into making them accept the new government . |
| 19 | There was the hope that modest constitutional change might attach the middle classes to the established institutions of the country by making them consider the House of Commons as an ultimate tribunal where their grievances could be discussed and remedied . |
| 20 | ‘ A scientific truth , ’ he wrote , and one can almost see the tightly pressed lips , hear the snapping of the pencil , ‘ does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light , but rather because its opponents eventually die , and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it . ’ |
| 21 | This lack of exposure in itself must have the effect of limiting motivation : staff nurses are rarely found battering at the tutors ' doors for advice on how to develop their teaching skills , and some way of motivating them and making them see the importance of teaching must be found . |
| 22 | THE central plank of the bill is the curb on the country 's biggest industrial polluters by making them use the best available technology to cut discharges . |
| 23 | ‘ It involves making them take the shape wanted while still in solution , ’ Causton says . |