Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] them [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this involvement has led people to question their abilities and outlook on their jobs and has made them see that they are capable of doing things ( with a little training and encouragement ) they never dreamed possible a few months ago . |
| 2 | Frank Griffith has made them wonder if the letters really exist . |
| 3 | Over the course of the monthly cycle , hormonal changes produce slight fluctuations in that temperature , which traditionally , women have used to help them determine if and when ovulation has occurred . |
| 4 | And for all his fans over here , I 'd like to let them know that he called DJ and me aside then and asked us if we 'd be interested in doing a European tour . |
| 5 | You 've got to make them feel that you 're not expecting too much of them , or you may make them freeze . |
| 6 | The difficulty experienced by many who teach in these areas is not in keeping parents out of school but in attempting to make them feel that they have a place within it . |
| 7 | They knew that if you made schools and universities permanent structures , tooled beautifully in stone and designed in a timeless way to permit the flowering of reflective thought and ancient customs , that society would become attached to them and would n't want to let them go when the cutbacks came . |
| 8 | Perhaps the shock is severe enough to catapult the person into feeling all the pain and extremity of loss that their defences might not have let them do if they had had more time to get organized . |
| 9 | As a result , I reacted in front of the jury in a way which may have made them think that , in fact , the defence had nothing to lose by disclosure of the statement . |
| 10 | I 'll tell him or anyone , and I meant it , so he started on about this night at the bowling club , but it was his actions Joy , I want to know who 's coming , we need to know , I thought but why 's he fucking boss me about on my private time , anyway to cut a long story short they booked all this night out and I watched and I waited I thought let them clock that I 'm not going , so then comes a phone call , David was in the bottom office so was the letter shark , and this phone call came over and David shouted up to all of us on the machine who 's going on Thursday night ? |
| 11 | Never yes so I thought let them come and they wanted you to be there and then I could n't rid of I just could n't get them to change their minds you know they just wanted you there and I said |
| 12 | We should restrict ourselves to trying to understand , and then try to help them expand and develop what they want to say . |
| 13 | The family could not speak English and my schoolboy French was almost exhausted so I bade them good afternoon but managed to make them understand that I would have dinner with them one evening soon — ‘ An English dinner . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We ca n't afford to let them know that , because now they 've changed the rules . |
| 15 | The years of battles and punishment that have not worked help them realize that keeping calm , ignoring slight misbehaviour , and rewarding appropriate behaviour are more effective ways of controlling their children and of having a more pleasant life . |
| 16 | I 've heard them say if the owners gave them their fare home from Lowestoft to Darsham , that 's all they had . |
| 17 | Hayling had let them know that the move would complicate his personal life . |
| 18 | So erm yes I think everybody 's very very disappointed as I think we probably heard with Paul Simpson because United certainly in my books , played some of the best football I 've seen them play since they 've been back in the second division in the erm first half , but really did let things slip away a little bit in the second . |
| 19 | We 've seen them come and go and the wall keeps on falling down . |
| 20 | ‘ I had seen them live and thought that they had an energy . |
| 21 | Teachers need to take children 's ideas seriously , and avoid making them feel that they have to search for the right answer , hidden somewhere in the teacher 's head . |
| 22 | ‘ You have made them stop and think , ’ he said . |
| 23 | I suppose you have to let them experiment and then learn their lesson the hard way when they take a spill . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ On the other hand , you also need to make them feel that this may be their one chance to make a record — and they 'd better work pretty hard to make sure it sounds good . ’ |