Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [pron] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hang 'em , burn 'em , torture 'em , throw 'em to the wolves , cut off their ears and nail 'em to the notice board , ’ shouted a particularly excited worshipper . |
| 2 | In sudden fury Leonora caught hold of his legs and swung them to the floor . |
| 3 | First , take the legs and heave them up and over ; then grab the body by the arms or legs and drag it to the edge … no , that would n't be practicable , that way the killer would be moving backwards and be the first to fall . |
| 4 | Must go back to the kids and see them to the bus . |
| 5 | The law student learns much of his or her law from decided cases , public attention is inevitably focused upon the adversarial contest , civil and criminal procedure is lengthy and complex , books on the English legal system ( including ours ) devote a considerable amount of space to litigation , and procedure tends to individualise grievances and tailor them to the adversarial model . |
| 6 | But in order to understand the problems faced in accounting theory students must often look to the literature on business organizations and apply it to the public sector context , albeit with great caution and common sense . |
| 7 | They are always ready to rescue and support sick or injured animals and help them to the surface to breathe , in the same way that mothers and ‘ aunts ’ will help their young to take their first breath . |
| 8 | Can you name the animals and match them to the correct countries ? |
| 9 | Having said that , he self-consciously dropped his gaze from her disappointed eyes and turned it to the multi-patterned carpet . |
| 10 | The day was Thursday , the start of the academic week ; Flavia combed her hair , washed her eyes and marched herself to the tower . |
| 11 | Then I know it is my duty to score goals and to bring something to the team . |
| 12 | to deal with entries entailing exemption from part of the Course on behalf of the Polytechnic Dispensations Committee , to set appropriate conditions for such entries and to report them to the Dispensations Committee ; and |
| 13 | The sun became relentlessly hot , adding dehydration to my distress ; I stripped off my pyjamas and restored them to the rucksack . |
| 14 | He was an inflexible , even fanatical supporter of the ultramontane line taken by Wiseman and Manning and often machinated against the other English bishops , exacerbating disputes and misrepresenting them to the pope . |
| 15 | As we go to press , however , LEAs are still drawing up their formulae and submitting them to the DES for approval . |
| 16 | This format makes it easy to fit the words to the ( edited ) pictures and to cue them to the start of each section so that they all come at the right place when they are being recorded onto the video sound track . |
| 17 | They took pictures and reported it to the RSPCA . |
| 18 | I put the small boat on my shoulders and carried it to the edge of the water , then I put it in the sea . |
| 19 | Alan wrapped one of his cot blankets round his shoulders and took him to the kitchen to make a drink . |
| 20 | Mamma put her ample arm round Noreen 's shaking shoulders and brought her to the kitchen table and made her sit down . |
| 21 | He 'd obviously put his own glass down , because he halted her by grabbing her shoulders and bringing her to a halt . |
| 22 | He was very nearly as tall as her , but she put an arm under his shoulders and supported him to the untidy room which served as the stable office , calling to one of the stable girls to take over the class . |
| 23 | Marc looped an arm around her shoulders and pulled her to a more comfortable position beneath him . |
| 24 | Impatiently he finished the task , ripping the material from his shoulders and tossing it to the floor . |
| 25 | She puts her hands on my shoulders and steers me to the chair . |
| 26 | Big-punching Wharton is also free of the agony in his right hand that plagued him for months and reduced him to a one-armed fighter when he was held to a draw by Londoner Lou Gent in November . |
| 27 | A single simulation is made by generating random numbers from these probability distributions and adding them to the observed geographic coordinates ( defining point , line or area features ) with these random values . |
| 28 | Then the Scots raided down from the borders and put it to the torch . |
| 29 | He eventually let go of me and I had to go the bottom of the baths and bring him to the surface , take him to the side and get him breathing again , and I was considered a failure for that . |
| 30 | When we recall them , they conjure up other images and lead us to the peak experience . |