Example sentences of "be [verb] them [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The four local MPs are urging them to sell the yard to the Merseyside Development Corporation . |
| 2 | They 're teaching them to pull the trigger at the Academy of Marksmanship . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm teaching them to hold the pencil properly and write their names , ’ she says . |
| 4 | ‘ We were asking them to play the main role in caring for their children , but they felt their authority was being undermined by the assessments . |
| 5 | It 's helping them to understand the immense pressures on them to stay forever in the closet . |
| 6 | The first step in helping parents cope with tantrums is to encourage them to identify the triggers for the behaviour . |
| 7 | If it is to put pressure on broadminded intellectuals to persuade their leaders to change their policies , it is having the opposite effect , and is causing them to support the nationalist government . |
| 8 | All you then have to do is edit them to reflect the configurations you want to use . |
| 9 | So often people become almost paralysed by the apparent enormity of the tasks to be undertaken , that the only way to give the necessary support is to help them to partialise the tasks . |
| 10 | And finally : ‘ Do n't merely talk , like some gasbags do , about shedding the last drop of your blood for your country — the difficulty with them , when the time comes , is getting them to shed the FIRST drop of their blood . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The aim of the programme is to assist them to improve the quality of the work they do and raise efficiency by giving them the task of analysing their own and their colleagues ’ activities and producing improvements . |
| 12 | One good idea is to get them to shout the response to the call of ‘ Oggy ’ , which originated in Cornwall . |
| 13 | The idea is to get them to trust the staff and their peer group and get them to open up a bit . |
| 14 | But to insist that women somehow amputate their love and compassion is to ask them to destroy the very thing which in my view favourably distinguishes us from men . |
| 15 | He admitted that it was not easy , and said that , in effect , what one did was to get them to read the first chapter of any book by Derrida . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ It came out looking as though I was telling them to stuff the season of goodwill , not buy the children any presents and put a bullet in the turkey . |