Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] them to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Processing items as soon as possible after soiling and/or submitting them to preliminary treatment . |
| 2 | For all its strengths , the game has a few flaws — you ca n't drop objects or give them to another character . |
| 3 | Such transfers need to be undertaken with care to avoid damaging the fish or subjecting them to sudden temperature changes . |
| 4 | Send me letters here still and I shall ask my new friend Mr ( wall-eyed ) Wood ( prop. ) to sit on them or speed them to another valley by pigeon post . |
| 5 | You can paint or stain them to any colour you want . |
| 6 | Their main advantages are : wood is an excellent insulator ; the windows come in an wide range of standard sizes ( and non-standard ones are easy for a joiner to make up if necessary ) ; they are , generally speaking , the cheapest type of replacement window to buy ; and you can paint or stain them to any colour you want . |
| 7 | The local police had had a busy evening with an exceptional number of hoax calls that led them to non-existent road accidents drunken brawls and even — a touch that showed a nice appreciation of British susceptibilities — a rabid dog on the loose . |
| 8 | Some of the stimulus for this came from a survey of senior medical students , yet when 30 current house officers were consulted all but two said that , though they would be happy to have the opportunity to apply for both jobs at one hospital , they would not have applied for a one year block contract that restricted them to one hospital . |
| 9 | They took their toys to The Priory Church of England School and sold them to each other to help the starving in Somalia . |
| 10 | By adopting such beliefs and applying them to contemporary society both found sustenance in elitist moral and ethical beliefs which were far removed from contemporary reality . |
| 11 | These entities are placed on Earth to manage coincidences in such a way as to inch us gradually along the evolutionary path and , while on Ketamine , Lilly was able to communicate with these extraterrestrials , who informed him that they had removed DNA samples from Earth and transported them to another planet . |
| 12 | London local authorities had delayed hearing petitioners ' cases and put them to considerable inconvenience . |
| 13 | Previously they used corn-cob husks and bits of walnut shell to remove the carbon dust and oil that build up in large motors and cause them to short circuit . |
| 14 | They were all out in the courtyard , and the evening sun was slanting low golden shafts of colour from the west , catching the windows of the ancient palace and turning them to molten copper . |
| 15 | The purpose of this chapter is to outline the elements involved in resource management in schools and to apply them to current practice . |
| 16 | An honest appraisal will help their progress and guide them to further learning opportunities . |
| 17 | He took off the phoney glasses and tweed hat and threw them to one side . |
| 18 | The viking army also would not let the giantesses rest , but sailed away with them and set them to grinding salt ; they ground so much that the boat sank and the mill with it , though still ( adds folk-tradition ) in the Maelstrom the giantesses grind their magic quern . |
| 19 | Cut lengths of ribbon , and stitch them to either side of the fabric at the top . |
| 20 | What is envisaged here is a ‘ pincer movement ’ for democratising the operations of large multidivisional enterprises and subjecting them to popular accountability . |
| 21 | Maybe Jack was rounding them up and moving them to another field . |
| 22 | John has also become quite adept at treating fish and he has bought several with faults and restored them to full health . |
| 23 | Walkden & berry ( 1984 ) correlated CL zones in overgrowth cements from the Upper Dinantian of northern Britain , and ascribed them to cyclic replenishment of vadose and shallow meteoric water tables in calcretized marine limestones . |
| 24 | The fifth band affects a dowser 's balance and throws them to one side : it is strongest at new and full moon . |
| 25 | With the lines stretched out , have a friend apply tension on the ends to be prepared and scissor them to equal length . |
| 26 | What Frazer does is to take , in the case of The Golden Bough , rituals and myths , and aspects of folk lore , from this society and that society , all over the world , and compare them to each other . |
| 27 | Intrigued by the idea the RAC drew up some rules and submitted them to other car manufacturers . |
| 28 | Stewart , who managed England 's Test side for six years and steered them to successive World Cup finals , said : ‘ When I was brought up during the war , serving Queen and country meant a lot to my generation . |
| 29 | Government orders forbade anyone to show the natives how to use such weapons , yet inevitably they did on occasion obtain them and use them to deadly effect , though their culture might be basically Stone Age . |
| 30 | So , in effect , the SAM works by taking an enormous number of individual measurements of acoustic reflectivity and converting them to equivalent light and dark dots on a TV screen where they can be seen by the human eye . |