Example sentences of "and [to-vb] them [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They realise that Compact enables them to have a say in the shape of education for the 1990s and to help them meet their projected employment needs . |
| 2 | The centre 's goal has been to enhance the quality of life of people who have cancer , and to possibly allay progression of the disease ; to give people some feeling of control over their lives and their healthcare , and to help them cope better with having cancer . |
| 3 | The women 's organizations in Nicaragua and ANDES 21 de junio , the teachers ' association , have arranged weekly visits to the camps to talk to the women about the political situation in El Salvador and to help them organize collectively : |
| 4 | Answer guide : To help them control the level of their expenditure , to assist in planning future levels of expenditure , to help them raise additional finance ( e g. mortgages , hire-purchase etc. ) , and to help them decide the best way to spend their money . |
| 5 | Thirdly we can support training schemes designed to improve the employability of local people and to help them get jobs . |
| 6 | to show his students the ways by which great art creates its effects , leading them to a finer appreciation and fuller response , and to help them appreciate more fully the authors ' insights , so often deeper than our own [ sic ] , contribute towards our understanding of ourselves , our community , and life itself . |
| 7 | We have a lot of people prepared to give of their time voluntarily to help young people get the kind of training they require and to help them find jobs . |
| 8 | But to be a young unknown among the famous , and to hear them argue , he felt to be an education . |
| 9 | ‘ I quickly learned not to cry and to let them do what they wanted , ’ says Jonathan , 32 . |
| 10 | No matter what species are chosen , it is always wise to buy a few small juveniles , or sub-adults , depending on the fish 's eventual size , and to let them grow up together . |
| 11 | You must take every opportunity to discuss the practical problems with your doctor and the social workers , occupational therapists and physiotherapists , to take advantage of their experience of dealing with similar situations , and to let them know if there are any particular difficulties you think you might be facing . |
| 12 | I promised to get them tickets and to let them know where and when to meet me on Sunday . |
| 13 | The Novel gives a familiar relation of such things as pass every day before our eyes , such as may happen to our friends , or to ourselves , and the perfection of it is , to represent every scene in so easy and natural a manner , and to make them appear so probable , as to deceive us into a persuasion ( at least while we are reading ) that all is real , until we are affected by the joys or distresses , of the persons in the story , as if they were our own . |
| 14 | In so far as history aspires to meaning , it is doomed to select regions , periods , groups of men and individuals in these groups and to make them stand out , as discontinuous figures , against a continuity barely good enough to be used as a backdrop . |
| 15 | He occasionally drops a phrase to provoke a smile from the soft cheeks of ladies and gentlemen , and to make them think that they could say the thing better … |
| 16 | And it 's really to make people to attract peoples ' attention and to make them think about these issues . |
| 17 | The main aim of the course was to help women overcome their feelings of inadequacy and to make them realize that they were equally capable of becoming community leaders . |
| 18 | The idea that something so apparently soft and harmless has pain-inflicting daggers on the ends of the feet is enough to disturb certain infants and to make them distrust the approaches of all felines . |
| 19 | Simply to apply findings , without regard to their particular conditions of validity , is to impose prescribed patterns of behaviour on learners as if they were subjects rather than people and to make them submit to solutions which correspond to problems other than their own . |
| 20 | To set against this the prosaic virtues of humility and obedience , and to make them seem not merely right but also interesting , is — when the writer is a fallen creature writing for other fallen creatures — an impossible task . |