Example sentences of "[v-ing] them to [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where in his character-drawing O'Brian touches the reader 's imagination by the unexpected , Forester satisfied his readers by helping them to a complete acquaintance with his officers and men . |
| 2 | Such incidents have now been reported sufficiently often in langurs and in lions , for example , to invalidate an early explanation attributing them to a high population density . |
| 3 | Once out of the village they picked up speed and took a road that would zigzag through five hamlets before bringing them to the only cart track that wound up the lower slopes of the mountain . |
| 4 | It was a crisp Saturday morning in February , and the young man had picked her up from her flat and was driving them to a motor-racing track in the heart of Surrey . |
| 5 | The DOE continues to support a study of the migration of the natural decay-series radionuclides of uranium and thorium in a variety of sedimentary settings in Cornwall and Scotland in order to test our ideas and modelling capabilities with a view to applying them to the geological disposal of radioactive waste . |
| 6 | He made imprints of the keys in bars of soap before returning them to the sleeping prison officer . |
| 7 | Within this context of greater freedom for all schools , we will end the two-tier system created by Grant Maintained Schools and City Technology Colleges by returning them to the strategic planning framework of the local elected education authority . |
| 8 | First , the practice of grazing calves from May until late July on permanent pasture , then moving these to hay or silage aftermath before returning them to the original grazing in late autumn . |
| 9 | Part of the process has been to leave melodies incomplete , in an enigmatic and obscure fashion , sacrificing them to the technical prowess of symphonic ‘ textures ’ which perhaps have a greater degree of interest and a more intellectually appealing complexity . |
| 10 | It is to the processes of this second reformation that Hilton now turns in chapter seventeen onwards , likening them to the gradual progress in recovery of full health after the medicine that effects the basic cure of the disease ( spiritually speaking , penance ) . |
| 11 | The support worker has to create a delicate balance between giving advisers the ‘ answer ’ for a client and directing them to the relevant part of the information system . |
| 12 | If you 're never going to read those twenty-year-old management books collecting dust on your office shelf make some profit ( it 's always best to start in a small way ) by selling them to a secondhand bookshop . |
| 13 | When refloating a herd , it is important to hold the rescued animals together until the entire herd is assembled before releasing them to the open sea . |
| 14 | This problem can be overcome by subjecting them to an external force , strong enough to alter their spatial distribution by a significant amount in a short time . |
| 15 | The remaining operating staff had to work long hours preparing and implementing an evacuation programme for school children , an exercise in which the trams played their part in getting them to the main line railway stations on the first part of their journey away from London . |
| 16 | Erm he 'll erm if they accept it it 'll it 'll stand a chance of getting them to the main group . |
| 17 | Nurses can help all patients by talking with them , keeping in mind the objective of orienting them to the new environment and routine . |
| 18 | Franks led them through some swing doors with a flourish and into another corridor , explaining that normally he would not waste money by taking them to a full editing suite . |
| 19 | Ever increasing reproductive technologies are re-ordering social aspects of reproduction , specifically women 's fertility , sexuality and pregnancies , by taking them to an industrial level , making them more and more scientific/medical procedures in need of ’ expert ’ interference , and so moving them even further out of women 's control . |
| 20 | ‘ Will you be taking them to the maximum security wing , sir ? ’ |
| 21 | When Lok acquires this tool , he goes on to compare the new people to things he is familiar with , noting their menace , power , and sheer attractiveness by comparing them to a famished wolf , the waterfall , honey and Oa . |
| 22 | Comparing them to the English Baroque woodwinds , it is clear that they became the prototype and standard for English makers well into the 18th century . |
| 23 | It might be unpractical to replicate eastern culture in the west , but there is much to be gained from extracting certain elements of that culture and adapting them to the western way of life . |
| 24 | Whatever the means by which they were transported to their present location , many evolutionists agreed that species must undergo changes adapting them to the local environment . |
| 25 | Almost equal , but not quite , because Luke still seemed to retain a vestige of control while she trembled wildly as his hands slid adroitly up over her ribcage to cup her breasts from beneath , lifting them to the swooping descent of his dark head ; and she heard him mutter intensely again just before his mouth took voluptuous possession of the heated hardness of one exquisitely sensitive nipple . |
| 26 | It is inside the cistern , extracting smells direct from the pan , via the flush pipe , and discharging them to the outside air through the overflow pipe . |
| 27 | In mid-October 1858 Alexander lent his imprimatur to Rostovtsev 's letters by putting them to the Main Committee . |
| 28 | But on the following day he had shaved the red stubble from his chin , was wearing a cleaner shirt , and was once more beginning to adopt a stern and over-bearing expression The Magistrate continued to give the orders which regulated the defence of the enclave , but in a subdued tone , as if referring them to the final authority of the Collector , should he wish to exercise it . |
| 29 | Gallacher made 174 league appearances for Newcastle , steering them to an English League Championship victory as captain in 1927 , and eventually amassing a remarkable 143 goals for the club . |
| 30 | Two squads of Fists in full battle armour crowded the fore of the compartment , standing rigidly , gripping their boltguns and chainswords , the magnetics of their boots locking them to the cleated deck . |