Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] them to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely this love-struck lothario was not The Doc that bullied them to a successful FA Cup Final . |
| 2 | I refer , of course , to unsupported mothers , women who have neither shirked their obligation to have children , nor left them to seek jobs , nor abandoned them to the tender mercies of the social services — , |
| 3 | At the top of the staircase various Chamberlains , dressed in gold embroidered jackets , welcomed the guests and led them to the Grand Master of Ceremonies . |
| 4 | Wilson et al took samples of diseased intestine and subjected them to a non-specific PCR amplifying the DNA of any bacteria present . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At a glassed-in box-office an immigration officer , seated high above , examined their passports again and subjected them to the piercing but impersonal stare of his kind . |
| 7 | She lifted the clothes out of the pot on the end of the pole and transferred them to a fresh-water butt to rinse . |
| 8 | He seemed bereft of sense as he pulled ribboned holly sprays from the walls and fed them to a sulky fire , cheering as they crackled and spurted heatless flame up the chimney . |
| 9 | But in practise , in India , Sikh communities have seized both these concepts and exploited them to the full . |
| 10 | Alyssia blew some of the flyaway blonde strands away from her face and followed them to a small table at the back of the café , hoping that she would not have to endure half an hour of French conversation while she sat on the sidelines , wondering whether what they were discussing was really as animated and interesting as it appeared . |
| 11 | Everything changed in the late summer of 1958 when I went to " the convent " , Elmwood , my senior secondary school , and began to lose sight of all these children , now separated by age or by the hurdle of the " qualie " that had kept some back and relegated them to the junior secondary where school ended at fifteen , divided girls from boys and clever from less clever . |
| 12 | The tablets she found later and took them to the Social Work Department to be sent to the child . |
| 13 | He cast around for somewhere to put them , and at once Mei Ling took them and gave them to a waiting servant . |
| 14 | He also purchased seven drawings attributed to Michelangelo from the Woodburn sale at Christie 's in 1887 and gave them to the British Museum ( five are still accepted as autograph ) . |
| 15 | When the press of grey on either side became too much the motorway fizzled out and abandoned them to the early-evening commuter jam of the North Circular Road . |
| 16 | The group did not exercise its rights but sold them to a third party for £200,000 . |
| 17 | It was easier to follow in the darkness , but exposed them to the full force of the wind and rain . |