Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] to their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He takes yachts from wherever they 've been laid up for the winter to their summer cruising grounds . ’ |
| 2 | On one occasion it was a group called the Fine Young Cannibals who made the journey , to discuss Virgin 's offer for the rights to their song-publishing . |
| 3 | Thus although they can learn colours as signals for food and as markers for the entrance to their hive , they have difficulty with other types of colour learning , such as using colour as a cue to finding their way out of a closed space . |
| 4 | Swiss researchers , who lost access to millions of dollars from the European Communities ( EC ) when voters decided in December to delay the process of joining the EC , are waiting for the reaction to their government 's attempt to participate at some level in the EC 's fourth Framework Programme , which begins next year . |
| 5 | Just then , a Zoggian policewoman arrived and asked Zanya for the key to their spaceship . |
| 6 | At Zog Central they found the policewoman and asked her for the key to their spaceship . |
| 7 | v. British Railways Board even though the goods were in no danger and the defendants recognised the plaintiffs ' title : the shortage of stock caused by industrial action was acute and damages would not adequately compensate the plaintiffs for the injury to their business . |
| 8 | Even in 1848 , the prejudice of the Irish — rather than the behaviour of the British — is blamed for their reluctance to see the Chartist movement as the means to their liberation : |
| 9 | So smile , be charming , and resist the temptation to elbow small children off the path to their doom for the crime of carrying a ghetto-blaster up the hill . |
| 10 | Workers at the Lewis 's chain store in Oxford were learning tonight of the threat to their pension fund . |
| 11 | Throughout the course , the tutors both help students to relate general language issues which are studied in other parts of the degree to their work in schools , and introduce students to issues that are of particular importance to teachers of young children . |
| 12 | An open space between two darkened structures — warehouses , Alexei thought , although he was not sure that their route had taken them across that quarter of the city — appeared out of the mist to their left like the mouth of an open tomb , and Jotan caught Alexei 's arm and indicated it . |
| 13 | And just when they seem engaged in revolutionizing themselves and things , in creating something that has never yet existed , precisely in such periods of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service and borrow from them names and little cries in order to present the new scene of world history in this time-honoured disguise and this borrowed language . ’ |
| 14 | Men from these Companies would be the first commando soldiers to fight a prolonged guerrilla war , not in the Middle East but in defence of the approaches to their homeland . |
| 15 | Appropriate statistical models will be developed to test the accuracy of forecasts of technology adoption patterns made in the mid-1980s ; to provide an analysis of the geographical patterns of technology diffusion in relation to the performance of the manufacturing establishments ; and to relate the survival patterns of the establishments to their history of technology adoption . |
| 16 | In fairness , more than a very few did stand up to the committee in spite of the danger to their swimming pools and their popularity . |
| 17 | Recently , however , I have notices that they are appearing more frequently and seem to be chasing the tetras which gather round one of the exits to their cave . |
| 18 | When construction , or rather demolition began , thousands of people had to wend their way through the mud and debris to get from their homes in the south of the city to their work in the north or to the shops and market . |
| 19 | Police broke news of the tragedy to their father who was taken to nearby Newhaven to give a statement to detectives . |
| 20 | And they sped forward with the squeals of the pack to their right as they were sighted , the clods and stones scattering from their horses ' hoofs , into a full , tearing gallop in the twilight . |
| 21 | Yet novels and plays that have characters who are aware or become aware of their fictional status generally focus on the relation of the characters to their author , as in Luigi Pirandello 's Six Characters in Search of an Author , Flann O'Brien 's At Swim-Two-Birds , Muriel Spark 's The Comforters , Robert Pinget 's Mahu , ou le matériau and countless other postmodernist texts . |
| 22 | The many grey squirrels were out and about , busy , and unaware of the interruptions to their habitat which the golf fans would bring . |
| 23 | Grant stopped as soon as the house came in sight and , signalling for Larsen to follow , he moved quickly into the darkness of the trees to their left . |
| 24 | Broadly defined , privatisation ranges from sale of all or part of the equity to their transformation to management contracts or leasing agreements with private firms . |
| 25 | In this book , we tried to develop a somewhat new approach to grammar , based on the idea that grammar , to be useful to the learner , should be ‘ communicative ’ , i.e. should relate the forms and structures of the language to their meaning and use In terms of the number of copies sold , this has been the most successful book of which I have been an author . |
| 26 | They are the means by which the public acquires information about the world and , more importantly , through which the public derives its knowledge and perceptions of current political and social problems and of the means to their resolution . |
| 27 | As E. R. Curtius has pointed out , the pious attitude of the Romans to their past and their tendency to regard it as if it were a part of the present signified a kind of timelessness that excluded a genuinely historical view of the world and was very different from our sense of temporal perspective . |
| 28 | The farmers remember the lawless boom times a decade ago , when they grew as much coca as they could manage for the drug traffickers who came from the other side of the continent to their market town . |
| 29 | The rowing boat near the weir — only this time they had gone too far and Uncle Albert was not strong enough to row them back to safety ; the study at Uncle Albert 's house looking warm and friendly and inviting ; the professor beetle shouting rude instructions at some little beetles that had got into difficulty ; again a glimpse of her uncle 's study ; then a turnstile — one of those that only turn one way , so once you have passed through it you ca n't get back ; playful light beams now shrieking with fear as they hurtle past the window to their destruction ; walking up the down-escalator and not being able to get anywhere ; yet another brief snatch of the study … |
| 30 | On 16th October 1813 , the Pacific Fur Company sold out to the North West traders , having pushed relations with the Indians to their limit . |