Example sentences of "[to-vb] them [vb infin] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this in mind , she had taken Charles with her when she went to see them perform for the first time . |
| 2 | Having made contact with a group of students at the nearby Architectural Association he went to see them play at the Goings On Club in Archer Street , a tiny place largely frequented by poets . |
| 3 | I would nt be at all suprised to see them play in the ‘ theatre of dreams ’ . |
| 4 | Courses were necessary for mainstream teachers , including headteachers , to help them cater for the multilingual population of their schools , and Heads of Modern Languages , who were often given responsibilities for South Asian languages despite the current limitations of their professional competence to foreign European languages , were a prime target for reorientation courses . |
| 5 | When world oil prices plunged in the 1980s , their leaders did little to help them adjust to the inevitable decline in living standards . |
| 6 | The Council will also be producing in-service materials for teachers to help them cope with the changes and , provided this is prepared and delivered in close collaboration with local education authorities , as is the stated intention , this should be very helpful provided the Council avoids being prescriptive about teaching style . |
| 7 | They must cross the gender divide to join their fathers , both to help them cope with the pain of parting from their first love and also to match social expectations of the male sex . |
| 8 | There is considerable ( ? deliberate ) confusion about the figures , but it seems that general practice and community services will receive about 4% extra revenue next year to help them prepare for the extra workload . |
| 9 | Paul and Miranda Gunn had their charming young family to help them look after the guests ; their two sons Mr Munro Gunn who works at John D. Wood , and Mr Marcus Gunn who had just got home from Paris , where is working at the Paris Business School ; also their two daughters Miss Petronella Gunn , who is studying at Bristol University ; and seventeen-year-old Miss Rosie Gunn , who is a member of the Junior British Eventing team , and last year competed at Lausanne , where she won the award for the highest placed British rider . |
| 10 | They do n't have superhuman powers to help them deal with the superstar image and pressures that they have had to put on them by the media and their fans . |
| 11 | In order to reinforce the Cartagena Declaration , Bush stated that he would ask the US Congress to sanction increased aid to the three Andean countries for the period 1991-94 , to help them deal with the social and economic problems resulting from drug eradication programmes . |
| 12 | The court was told that the accused had used matches to help them see in the barn . |
| 13 | FOUR North Wales schoolgirls are seeking sponsorship to help them get to the British ski championships . |
| 14 | To help them get in the laughing mood . ’ |
| 15 | However , it was claimed that criminals saw the vans operating in the city 's large housing schemes as an ideal front from which to sell drugs and stolen goods , and threatened the legitimate operators into giving up their runs to let them move into the area . |
| 16 | However , it was claimed that criminals saw the vans operating in the city 's large housing schemes as an ideal front from which to sell drugs and stolen goods , and threatened the legitimate operators into giving up their runs to let them move into the area . |
| 17 | I listen to their stories , and I know when to let them sleep in the shade . ’ |
| 18 | She meant Hepzibah and Mister Johnny and how she owed it to them to let them stay in the house because there was nowhere else they could go , not with Mister Johnny 's shy ways . |
| 19 | Better to give them a good life here than to let them suffer in the vague hope of some better afterlife . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ He refused to let them return in the New Year to London , ’ she said . |
| 21 | If the client refuses to let them communicate with the auditors , then they should turn the job down . |
| 22 | If we teach a horse to move to the right away from the pressure of a rider 's leg on their left side ; they do not seem to be able to reason that pressure on the right side is intended to make them move to the left . |
| 23 | Is it ethical for man to interfere with the genetic constitution and physiological functions of living organisms , especially of man and the higher animals , in order to make them perform in a different way ? |
| 24 | The great public buildings were stuccoed with gypsum to make them dazzle in the bright sea-light . |
| 25 | She used to show you a collection of photographs which she kept in her wallet as if they were family photographs , but in fact these pictures were all pictures of men 's cocks , she used to make them stop on the way home at the photobooth in the entrance to the station , she 'd make them stand on the stool with their trousers down , she never got caught — Greta , on seeing me leave with an especially handsome man : ‘ I hope you 're on the pill . ’ |
| 26 | ’ Thus if the goods require anything to be done to them in order for them to be ready for delivery or in order to make them comply with the contract , they will not be in a deliverable state . |
| 27 | Now what I 'm wondering is this : instead of thinking that staying put is natural , and then having to introduce a force of gravity — which then mysteriously pulls on everything to make them behave in the same way — why not start out by saying that falling is the natural thing to do ! |
| 28 | Crucially , they found it almost impossible to make them work for a wage . |
| 29 | ‘ It seemed unfair to make them play in the dark , ’ John says . |
| 30 | to make them blink for a bit , to smirch |