Example sentences of "[verb] them [to-vb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each unit is ranked according to profitability and profit growth , which helps spur competition between IDG managers and — with any luck — encourages them to learn from each other . |
| 2 | These were of immense consequence in giving elected Indian officials their first real taste of power , and in encouraging them to ask for more — much more , needless to say , than Curtis had either foreseen or intended . |
| 3 | Before you start , ask yourself : what are our objectives , what message are we trying to get across , which people do we want to reach , what emotions should they feel , what responses are we looking for , what do we want them to take from this event — in person or through the media and press ? |
| 4 | Library acquisitions in higher education are already seriously underfunded , and ways must be found to enable them to deal with these new pressures . |
| 5 | The University Welfare Services make special provision to assist students with special needs to find accommodation , to enable them to participate in all aspects of university life , and to give expert advice on career opportunities after graduation . |
| 6 | However , the police ask how the Government are helping them to deal with those who persistently offend . |
| 7 | I , personally , was struck by Basil 's gift , when he taught children and teachers , for helping them to observe in such a way that detail was noticed and imagination was touched . |
| 8 | It amused them to dine in some style , formally separating the working day from their evenings together . |
| 9 | I 've got to go and tell the teacher this morning Alex needs to stay till twenty past three cos they only want them to stay till half two . |
| 10 | ‘ Manuals were given to staff and we then had to encourage them to work to these procedures in preparation for our own internal quality audit . |
| 11 | I have on occasion told students that they 're doing an arts subject , and tried to encourage them to think in those terms , because if they 're constantly thinking of the job at the end of it , then I do n't think they 're getting the most out of it that they can do … . |
| 12 | Just when you expect them to lash into some wicked rockabilly they come out with the Radio 4 theme music soundalike of ‘ Mala Femmina ’ . |
| 13 | Just when you expect them to lash into some wicked rockabilly they come out with the Radio 4 theme music soundalike of ‘ Mala Femmina ’ . |
| 14 | So what is their mental state , that causes them to behave in this very unfeline-like way ? |
| 15 | ‘ We devised some pretty crude mechanisms for extracting cash from the operating companies every quarter — we did n't even bother to classify it as dividend or interest or repayment of loans , we just took the cash away from them and told them to manage with less . |
| 16 | I returned to my men and told them to unload under some fig trees on the steep river bank . |
| 17 | The impetus which drove them to expand in all directions from this base is not fully explained . |
| 18 | This is combined with a cosmopolitan diet which allows them to feed on most living or dead animal matter . |
| 19 | They 've got together to form a barter scheme , using a special currency which allows them to work for each other without REAL money changing hands . |
| 20 | Well that 's because , perhaps because , when they were young children people directed them in that kind of decision making , or look people directed them to look at those sorts of levels . |
| 21 | Erm could we give out the , the handout cos I think I 'd like them to refer to this on the All you 've got to do is write these things down , cos you 've , cos you 've got most of this on the way through . |
| 22 | Our results confirm those of Wu and Wilcox ( 27 ) and extend them to identify in more detail the sites that are bound by the VZV 140k DNA binding domain . |
| 23 | Technological improvements allowed them to capitalize on that wealth in the 1920s . |
| 24 | Edgar thanked the Danes for their support and allowed them to live under such laws as they might choose , and it must be significant that Swegen landed in Lincolnshire when he made his bid for the kingship in 1013 , and that in 1066 King Harald of Norway made for York , where he had hopes that the citizens would assist him in his endeavours . |
| 25 | → When you buy goods or equipment you have a legal right to expect them to comply with any description applied : leather not plastic , solid wood and not veneer , or in this case a ‘ 67 and not a 1974 model . |
| 26 | We try and get them to look after each other . |
| 27 | He instructed his new ministers , however , to resign their faction memberships , and he ordered them to refrain from all stock market dealings , while also returning one-10th of their salaries to the Treasury , in an effort to regain the political prestige of the Cabinet . |
| 28 | Quite quickly the contact between the two sections of the rural population can become limited to the activity of a few ‘ go-betweens ’ , whose employment requires them to relate to both sides . |
| 29 | An 80 page Activity Book containing tasks and exercises designed to help students develop skills that will enable them to benefit from any news broadcast in English . |
| 30 | When we held activities at the school , the girls would always opt for the domestic tasks ' and it was difficult to persuade them to take on some other responsibility . |