Example sentences of "[vb past] them to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the top of the staircase various Chamberlains , dressed in gold embroidered jackets , welcomed the guests and led them to the Grand Master of Ceremonies . |
| 2 | And members are still less than enamoured with their district council group leader , Coun John Richardson from Willington , who led them to the disastrous defeat . |
| 3 | Bloom et al. " s study of how to is acquired in infinitival complement constructions led them to the clear conclusion that " the children learned to with the meaning " " direction towards " " and not as a meaningless syntactic marker " ( 1984 : 391 ) . |
| 4 | Working the 2 Step programme becomes progressively more relevant on a daily basis in the recognition that it provides such a superb philosophy of life than many recovering people come to consider that they were fortunate to have addictive disease because it led them to the 12 Step Programme . |
| 5 | It closed the banks and immediately sold them to the Richmond-based Signet Banking Corp . |
| 6 | Glenn Hoddle got them to the Premier league … maybe Keith Scott can keep them there ! |
| 7 | After making each man check that his own line was securely attached , he moved them to the far end of the cage and sat them down on the wooden bench . |
| 8 | His goal and guidence helped them to the Premier League . |
| 9 | An armed gang of fans of Umtata Bucks surrounded Da Silva 's house in Umtata , ordered him and his family to pack their bags , drove them to the local airport , gave them tickets and cash and forced them aboard a Johannesburg-bound flight . |
| 10 | Naturally Terry had hard-line views on all this , and as we changed for the show on that charged night he proclaimed them to the entire cast , as if he were addressing a meeting . |
| 11 | After a dry tour , the brewery directed them to the local pub — which sells a RIVAL brew . |
| 12 | It was easier to follow in the darkness , but exposed them to the full force of the wind and rain . |
| 13 | Australia , put in on the new surface , struggled : both openers played on , and with Border collecting his second duck of the series , the home side slumped to 81 for 6 before the Victorians , Jones and Hughes , steered them to the relative prosperity of 145 all out . |
| 14 | A lift up to the Llanberris path and a hot and sweaty flog in competition with another party — evidently intent on the same prize — brought them to the brooding llyn and awesome amphitheatre of Arddu . |
| 15 | ‘ At the Brisbane Hotel dinner , Jimmy Conn treated them to the full Address to the Haggis , splendidly translated by interpreter Pru Williams . ’ |
| 16 | Everything changed in the late summer of 1958 when I went to " the convent " , Elmwood , my senior secondary school , and began to lose sight of all these children , now separated by age or by the hurdle of the " qualie " that had kept some back and relegated them to the junior secondary where school ended at fifteen , divided girls from boys and clever from less clever . |
| 17 | Earlier in the year fittingly , during Passover , the festival which celebrates the Israelites ' escape from Egypt and the beginning of the journey which eventually took them to the Promised Land — Rabbi Moishe announced with quiet satisfaction that their contributions had mounted up to a sum sufficient to buy three hundred dunams of land in Palestine , that the purchase was in the process of being arranged on their behalf by the Jewish National Fund , and that he himself would lead an advance party of settlers from Cork before the end of 1920 . |
| 18 | The opening encounter took them to the small island of St Vincent , where the pitch was some way from international standard . |
| 19 | I took them to the dry cleaner 's this afternoon . ’ |
| 20 | And as part of the deal , I had some petty cash with which to buy them all sandwiches and coffee so they could get changed or dressed while they ate and I took them to the next job if they had one , or wherever they wanted to go . |
| 21 | The tablets she found later and took them to the Social Work Department to be sent to the child . |
| 22 | He also purchased seven drawings attributed to Michelangelo from the Woodburn sale at Christie 's in 1887 and gave them to the British Museum ( five are still accepted as autograph ) . |
| 23 | Owen accompanied them to the front entrance himself . |
| 24 | When the press of grey on either side became too much the motorway fizzled out and abandoned them to the early-evening commuter jam of the North Circular Road . |