Example sentences of "[vb past] them [to-vb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we told them to point to the empty box they would do so ; but would revert to pointing to the baited box again on the next trial . |
| 2 | Episcopal persecution , however , drove them to flee to the relative anonymity of London at the end of the 1620s . |
| 3 | In the period broadly spanning the years 1948 to 1975 , central governments of both parties gradually extended local authorities ' social service powers , or encouraged them to use to the full powers they had already been given — achieving secondary education for all , creating a national pattern of further education , developing services for the elderly , sustaining a substantial housing programme . |
| 4 | They were to suffer still further as their captors immediately stripped them of everything , even their boots , and forced them to march to the Turkish camp . |
| 5 | In many cases , the parents of the brighter children wished them to go to the secondary school in Jarrow , an overcrowded building housing about 400 pupils in which good scholarship results were achieved , but there were serious difficulties facing their children : |