Example sentences of "[verb] them to a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By that time , the Scottish team had gone through three practice sessions , while the Aussies from Queensland expect their post-season training to see them to a successful defence of the tournament , which starts today . |
| 2 | Philpott led them to a pale-blue door at the end of the passage . |
| 3 | At noon , the exhausted Pack gathered together and Brown Owl led them to a shady area . |
| 4 | Where in his character-drawing O'Brian touches the reader 's imagination by the unexpected , Forester satisfied his readers by helping them to a complete acquaintance with his officers and men . |
| 5 | Such incidents have now been reported sufficiently often in langurs and in lions , for example , to invalidate an early explanation attributing them to a high population density . |
| 6 | You can do more than play games : you can add them , multiply them , and develop them to a remarkable depth . |
| 7 | It was a crisp Saturday morning in February , and the young man had picked her up from her flat and was driving them to a motor-racing track in the heart of Surrey . |
| 8 | He helped them to a waiting car and drove to nearby St Thomas 's Hospital . |
| 9 | The most difficult aspect of a merger is trying to put a team together of people who come from different business cultures and trying to adjust them to a different end . |
| 10 | It had emerged that a recently formed Soviet state co-operative company called ANT , with clearance from at least three government ministries , had bought the tanks as surplus stock from an armaments factory at Nizhny Tagil in the Urals , had arranged to sell them to a Western country ( not officially disclosed , but unofficially reported to be France ) , and had stood to make US$8,000,000 profit on the deal . |
| 11 | However , their architecture — a connectionist network — limits them to a small vocabulary of 211 words . |
| 12 | And then he 'd maybe see two small boys holding hands , and the Holy Spirit would be forgotten while he hauled the bewildered pair out in front of the rest of the class and subjected them to a blistering rain of sarcasm . |
| 13 | As the bulbs begin to swell , expose the tops to the sun to help ripen them to a golden colour . |
| 14 | Dad drove them to a big hotel and Jane and Mike were there already waiting for them . |
| 15 | How might such processes be affected in female readers ' responses to stories about males , which concern traditionally male interests and which frequently exclude them altogether or restrict them to a passive role ? |
| 16 | She lifted the clothes out of the pot on the end of the pole and transferred them to a fresh-water butt to rinse . |
| 17 | His dazzling skills lifted them to a four-goal victory as he scored one and set up two of his striking partner Kevin Campbell 's three goals . |
| 18 | The receptionist directed them to a private ward on the third floor . |
| 19 | Kings led them into battle for the land ( e.g. 2 Kings 8 ) and prophets pointed them to a righteousness that would bring them to a new highway , a land where mountains would be levelled , rough places smoothed ( Is. 40.4 ) , and the Prince of Peace would establish his kingdom . |
| 20 | Jesus our pioneer restores all things and will bring them to a glorious fulfilment . |
| 21 | In the apparent desire to reduce levels of political controversy and so limit the powers of political opponents , it appears that the reforms have , in this area at least , helped to strengthen the position of bureaucrats , and insulate them to a great degree from scrutiny . |
| 22 | I wish to suggest , also , that in describing physics , for example , as a particular kind of subject , students are also saying something about themselves , as people : the qualities which attract them to a particular subject are also , to some extent , qualities which are central to their own self-image . |
| 23 | Well , that 's not how schoolboys talk , so they sneered some more and waited for Oliver to challenge them to a formal fight . |
| 24 | To allow them to live out their natural life-span it is necessary to slowly convert them to a marine environment as they reach a body length of 5cm . |
| 25 | Or give them to a nearby playgroup or primary school , which will welcome any old cards that the children can cut up for collages . |
| 26 | I am very desirous to get all the species of this genus which I can , and am making observations on their flowers and fruit : for Doctor Linnaeus has joined these to his genus of Rhus [ sumach ] , with which all the species of Toxicodendron , which I have yet examined , will by no means agree ; for these are either male and female in distinct plants , or have male flowers in separate parts from the fruit on the same plant , which , according to his own system , must remove them to a great distance from the Rhus . |
| 27 | Truisms like ‘ the world is full of things that have what it takes to be in the world ’ are trivial , almost silly , until we come to apply them to a special kind of durability , durability in the form of lineages of multiple copies . |
| 28 | His aim was to reconvert them to a Unitarian Christianity devoid of superstition . |
| 29 | If you 're never going to read those twenty-year-old management books collecting dust on your office shelf make some profit ( it 's always best to start in a small way ) by selling them to a secondhand bookshop . |
| 30 | Transfer them to a small tube or box containing a few leaves from the same plant and take them home . |