Example sentences of "they to the " in BNC.

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1 The finings attract yeast and other particles and begin to drag them to the bottom of the tank .
2 Use them to the full to guarantee the effective use of your computer system by ensuring staff are aware of its potential .
3 But by the time he had gathered up her handbag and Lord Woodleigh 's camera , which had come to rest nearby , she was able slowly to make her way with them to the nearest point where the accident could be reported .
4 Take them to the hospital with you for the doctor to examine .
5 How reach through and past them to the axis of power ?
6 He saw them to the door but when they rode past a minute later , it was already shut .
7 What , after all , is the difference between a priest acting in the highest sense of his vocation , or a prophet compelled into declamation , or such a saint ( even unknowing ) , opening himself up to the mercies of God , becoming a channel for them to the world ?
8 She tiptoed past them to the chest of drawers , took out a pair of shorts and a sweatshirt and slipped back downstairs to the kitchen .
9 All behaviouristic theories of cognition are viciously third-personal , where that expression signifies , first , that they can not be applied to the first-person perspective and , second that our ability to apply them to the third person really rests on our bringing to bear first-person knowledge : as with rats in mazes , where my plain and unreduced apprehension of the rat 's environment enables me to see its grasp of that environment in terms of its behaviour within it .
10 Thoughts about how the spectacles would appear to me if I moved towards them leftwards must be related in the correct way to thoughts about how they would look if I moved above them to the right ; thoughts about their being artefacts must be related to thoughts about their not existing before a certain time or not coming into existence in the kitchen as the kettle boils .
11 Hold this position for 2 seconds , then slowly lower them to the floor .
12 Then screw them to the baseboard .
13 He takes poststructuralist assumptions about the death of the author and the disappearance of the self-subsistent ego , and applies them to the history of English poetry , in a work which combines ingenious close reading , impressive knowledge of metre , and an overall argument of stratospheric thinness and remoteness .
14 We can stage a little comedy for ourselves if we pick out two expressions that I used in my last paragraph , and imagine ourselves presenting them to the startled and unwelcoming gaze of Max Beerbohm .
15 Lieutenant-General Abdul Haq Ulomi , who heads the country 's most powerful military and political body , said in an interview the two countries were testing the new surface-to-surface rockets in Afghanistan by supplying them to the mujahedin to use on Kabul .
16 The second is to present them to the three million visitors each year in ‘ an educative and enjoyable way ’ .
17 ( Dr Kavanagh is inclined to scatter quotations and leave them to the imgination . )
18 And he did nothing in his life of exploration to introduce any of them to the places he saw .
19 Instead , they can buy more processors and add them to the existing machine .
20 ENGLAND fly out to Poland today confident of securing the draw that will be sufficient to take them to the World Cup finals , stirred but not shaken by a warning from Bobby Moore .
21 Det Insp Brian Welfare , of Sussex CID , said that he had met the university 's residential advisers to alert them to the risk to other students .
22 Many of the great fortunes in this country are still in the hands of the landed aristocracy who tend to be preoccupied with maintaining their great estates and country houses , no doubt feeling that opening them to the public is in itself a form of patronage .
23 This course of action would expose them to the prospect of mounting fines and eventual seizure of assets .
24 But he added that government departments had been asked to complete forms and return them to the Treasury .
25 He added that this order would leave it open to the Press to deal with the questions of principle so far as they did not apply them to the facts .
26 Since 1984 the Justice Department has had authority to prosecute terrorists who attack Americans abroad , but the FBI has had to request permission from the host countries to return them to the US .
27 At first this was hard to prove , since local authorities were now given many new relief duties : at the same time a number of extensive taxation rights were transferred away from them to the Centre .
28 So I invited them to the gig at St Martin 's .
29 Third , it analyses the influence on the political agenda and public opinion ; has it shifted either of them to the right ?
30 Moreover , Bridgeman justified his actions to Balfour in terms which Maxse would have approved , arguing that Balfour seemed to be ‘ surrounded by men who are not in touch with the mass of the Party ’ , complaining of ‘ the extraordinary difference in perspective which party questions assume inside the House from that presented by them to the man in the street ’ and voicing suspicions about the secrecy of Parliamentary procedures such as ‘ the pourparlers of the whips of both sides ’ .
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