Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] them to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made many observations of atmospheric electricity , and tried to relate them to the weather . |
| 2 | ANDY SINTON last night revealed he plans to quit QPR — just days after he helped steer them to the top of the Premier League . |
| 3 | We tried to get them to the door but they kept falling about . |
| 4 | Even if resources had been plentiful , Russia lacked the roads and railways she needed to get them to the front . |
| 5 | So I would , I and a couple of the fellas went to pull them to the aeroplane graveyard . |
| 6 | Men set off in a local bus commandeered to take them to the factories on the edge of the town . |
| 7 | You were n't allowed to have a hearse , you had to carry them to the church , and er er we used to b bury them by lamp light . |
| 8 | If they had given the matter any thought , however , and some incident had alerted them to the dangers of being too relaxed , there was no doubt they would have strained every muscle to elude the worst poverty . |
| 9 | The letter had brought them to the surface , where they could hurt more . |
| 10 | It was her deep sorrow and unhappiness at the tragic accident that had brought them to the United States , together with all the fraught , highly charged tension of having to be in Ross 's company for any length of time , which had taken its toll of her already precariously weak reserves of strength . |
| 11 | A line of the malabars , named after the Indian immigrants who had brought them to the colony , had been drawn up under the trees in the square outside the Continental Palace Hotel when they emerged to go to Cholon with Jacques and Paul Devraux to buy the last of their hunting supplies . |
| 12 | Rose , with the same tact as she had brought them to the house , was careful to absent herself from these occasions as much as possible . |
| 13 | They would appear from time to time and taunt the old couple , reminding them of their past lives and the failures or mistakes which had brought them to the castle ( though never detailing them — neither Quiss nor Ajayi knew what the other had done to justify sending them here . |
| 14 | Less than an hour in their company had brought them to the boil . |
| 15 | Outgoing BAIE national chairman Phillipa Burrow , who appeared with her in the BBC studios at Pebble Mill in Birmingham , said the number of cot deaths had fallen by 60 per cent since Anne Diamond had brought them to the attention of the public and the Government . |
| 16 | And Satan had led them to the attack . |
| 17 | Johnson was the shining star in an excellent Whitecaps side which included former English internationalists Alan Ball and Jon Sammels. his performances put an estimated 6,000 on the team 's home gate ; within a season Johnson had led them to the Soccer Bowl final against Tampa Bay Rowdies . |
| 18 | Once she had taken them to the cinema and Oliver had been sick with excitement and ice-cream . |
| 19 | Less than half an hour had taken them to the motorway ; after that it was easy — they were heading north . |
| 20 | The bracelet not only made them fly , but had taken them to the moon . |
| 21 | After he had slept in the same sheets for six months Nails had taken them to the launderette , and now he had discovered a few things like that , which helped , which was more than his dad ever had . |
| 22 | But they told their grand father that they had seen the god , and that he had taken them to the mountain-top . |
| 23 | I had taken them to the meeting . |
| 24 | By the time the taxi had delivered them to the restaurant Fabia was feeling on more of an even keel . |
| 25 | ( When he finally left us for the United States , he took these gifts back from me , with the excuse that as he had bought them in Berlin he wanted to show them to the dancer . |