Example sentences of "them [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As Pathfinders they had the extra advantage of being able to use all the latest radar equipment to enable them to see through the layers of cloud , and when they were talking to Met Officers we would hear mysterious references to ‘ Gee ’ and ‘ H2S ’ .
2 Well no , they take them to go with the horses .
3 ‘ If people want to go swimming in early evening or early morning we would advise them to go to a swimming pool , ’ a spokesman said .
4 East Germany had agreed to give them papers allowing them to go to the country of their choice , and they were expected to leave Poland ‘ in the very near future ’ .
5 ‘ Team Toyota Europe want them to go to the Safari and they ca n't put off a decision much longer .
6 You can compel them to go to the polling station and even to put an official election slip into the ballot box but that slip could be blank or spoiled , so what would be achieved ?
7 Night waking Some professionals suggest that parents should wake their children at certain times during the night to get them to go to the lavatory .
8 You do n't want them to go to the police , do you ? ’
9 Teesside Crown Court was told Ninham had offered to give the boys money for fireworks and encouraged them to go for a walk with him and his dog .
10 And they 'll actually sit down and work that out for people and encourage them to go for a job and give them all the forms they need to claim Family Credit or whatever .
11 ‘ I am not going to spend big money bringing players over from Scotland simply for them to go through the motions . ’
12 Mahmoud got them to go through the events of the night .
13 He threw a bottleful of his pills into the kitchen sink and tried to get them to go down the drain with the handle of a dishmop .
14 He told them to go amongst the people of the land and offer them their service , to defend Minginish instead of conquering it ; for the most earth a man ever needs is what is piled in his grave .
15 You 'd think it would be totally alien for them to go in the water like that .
16 He also wants recommendations on what action should be taken in future to investigate serious complaints properly ; whether auditors should have a duty placed on them to report to the DTI separately where a company has critical financial problems ; and whether compensation should be paid to Land Travel 's victims .
17 Rose , laughing , took the gloves away as he pretended to need them to wear about the house .
18 But the motive for praying for the saints is to equip them to minister in the world .
19 They talked nonsense until there was sufficient calm in the stalls and circle to allow them to continue with the lines as written in the script .
20 The US Congress at the end of March 1988 allocated humanitarian aid to the contras which enabled them to continue as a force , but Nicaragua from May 1988 unilaterally extended the Sapoá ceasefire on a monthly basis throughout 1988 and for most of 1989 [ see pp. 36421-22 ; 36681 ; see also below ] .
21 The fact that my slimmers felt so much healthier encouraged them to continue on the diet while they were losing weight and it became clear that they had no intention of falling back in to their old habits .
22 Take the baskets that hold them out of the pool and allow them to drain for an hour .
23 But some , such as the Portuguese man-of-war ( Physalia ) and the velella , have sacs full of gas , which enable them to float on the surface , trailing their poisonous tentacles to catch fish that come to browse in the surface water .
24 In a pond the temperature variations which occur from day to night will affect the buoyancy of the fish 's swimbladders , causing them to float to the water surface or sink to the bottom .
25 This caused them to sink into the ground until the crossbar was only two inches above the grass .
26 While this may mean working only one day less per week , that one day may provide a vital breathing space for women like Alice Perkins , working in demanding , pressurised jobs , and it may just allow them to remain on a career path that will take them into positions of power .
27 Accepting that " if the Slovaks want to live in an independent state , they have the right to do so " , he said nevertheless that he saw " no indication " that a majority of Slovaks wanted to secede , and he urged them to remain within the federation and not to succumb to " nationalist narrowmindedness " .
28 The policy was for them to remain around the fringes of a raid and try and pick off stragglers , leaving the ‘ infighting ’ to the Hurricanes .
29 Paradoxically , the widespread availability of part-time employment for women may enable them to remain in the labour market , even while providing substantial levels of care , whilst men appear more likely to have to choose between full-time employment and stopping work altogether ( see Green , 1988 , Table 2.9 ; Parker , 1992 ) .
30 Already their father had given an indication of his deep displeasure by ordering all three of them to remain in the room throughout the ceremony .
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