Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun sg] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other walkers were struggling up the dusty track , sweating and wheezing their way to the high plateau . |
| 2 | Druids said they would pursue their case to the European Court against English Heritage 's decision to close Stonehenge again next year at the summer solstice . |
| 3 | Some small successes had already been achieved ; for example , by 1880 foreigners had agreed to entrust their mail to the Japanese postal system . |
| 4 | The fact that the thieves confined their attention to the Early Cycladic display case , ignoring many other important works , suggests that they may have been stealing to order something which is a matter of concern to museum staff and archaeologists in Greece . |
| 5 | We can certainly agree that political sociologists have not confined their attention to the narrower governmental sphere or believed that this constitutes a part ( albeit an important part ) of the world of politics . |
| 6 | It was Corrary who pointed , and drew their gaze to the dark shadow on the water . |
| 7 | He let them study the map a while , accustoming themselves once again to its details , then drew their attention to the large red-shaded area to the bottom left of the map . |
| 8 | He and his four fellow sixth formers at Barnard Castle School have won their way to the regional final of a music contest in Newcastle . |
| 9 | It is a well-established convention that a minister should be an MP or a peer ; the Ministers of the Crown Act , 1964 ( in limiting the number of ministers and parliamentary secretaries that can sit in the Commons ) forces the Prime Minister to select a nucleus of ministers from the Lords ; leading figures in the majority party practically demand a Cabinet place — and a ministry of their choice ; new young members need to be nurtured ; and even leaders of factions within the party might have to be given office if only in the hope of softening their opposition to the broad drift of government policy . |
| 10 | Scarabs , beads , pendants , and ivories found their way to the Minoan temple sites . |
| 11 | It is intriguing to wonder how some of the emigrants found their way to the outlandish places in which they settled , or how Ayrshire names came to be given to spots which are amongst the most isolated on earth . |
| 12 | Religions , cults , sects and mystery schools from other parts of the Empire — notably from Greece , from Syria , from Egypt , from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor — also found their way to the Holy Land , struck roots and flourished . |
| 13 | They looked at each other , then returning their gaze to the far distance there was a silence between them before Mick went on again , ‘ As I see it now , real education is what you get from life : not what life gives you , but what you give to it . |
| 14 | Introducing the collection of essays , Crisis in the Humanities , in which Steiner 's essay appeared in 1964 , J. H. Plumb calls for " less reverence for tradition and more humility towards the education systems of those two great countries — America and Russia — which have tried to adjust their teaching to the urban , industrial world of the twentieth century " . |
| 15 | Active during the day as well as at night , they appear to adjust their pace to the human by-products on which they depend , such as scraps from butchers shops and other handouts . |
| 16 | The week Miles reviewed them for EVO they changed their name to the Pink Floyd . |
| 17 | In Washington , US Administration officials said the soldiers — members of the elite Green Berets — feared the rebels had left booby traps behind and waited for Salvadorean troops to work their way to the sixth floor , on which the soldiers were trapped . |
| 18 | Many other contemporary examples of both national as well as international institutional policy in which the market is seen as the only means to improve peasants ' and pastoralists ' incomes and to increase their contribution to the national exchequer can be found in Heyer , Roberts and Williams ( 1981 ) . |
| 19 | She says , ‘ How am I going to get round all these people phoning me up saying , ‘ Why am I not getting calls , it 's all your fault ’ , you know , all the rest of it ’ , when they have n't diverted their telephone to the right extension number . |
| 20 | it is your duty as a manager or supervisor to tell your subordinates all that they need to know to perform their work to the best of their ability |
| 21 | Individuals are required to perform their job to the full , but not to overstep the boundaries of their authority . |
| 22 | The three Craigavon councillors will wing their way to the deep south and take a trip around the towns of Macon ( Georgia ) , Knoxville ( Tennessee ) and Huntsville ( Alabama ) . |
| 23 | Now the larger giant supertankers bring their oil to the deep water terminal at Finnart , on the western fjord coast , and a new pipeline carries it to Grangemouth . |
| 24 | Having passed the green flashing light at the end of the main breakwater and also that of the inner Leon y Castillo mole , both of which are left to starboard , arriving yachts should make their way to the small boat harbour . |
| 25 | For some chairmen , moreover , the prospect of playing Father Christmas ( which their rural electrification largesse offered them ) provided a not entirely unwelcome opportunity to affirm their commitment to the local community , and the voices of discontent raised against the policy were few . |
| 26 | Women 's inferior economic position must affect their access to the better places , but no work has been done to substantiate this point . |
| 27 | We suggest that this sort of service led by fully trained clinical psychologists who are able to evaluate and adapt their approach to the particular needs of general practice should be explored further . |
| 28 | I think you 're sort of drawing drawing their attention to the public concern over that sort of phrase . |
| 29 | The bridges , they say , have not been painted regularly and this penny-pinching has exposed their steelwork to the corroding effects of salt , pollution , water and debris . |
| 30 | Experience of the families — It would be neither feasible nor desirable to intrude upon these families at frequent intervals to monitor their response to the emergent diagnosis of Duchenne muscular dystrophy . |