Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we set the scene , we look good , we have n't crushed them to death and he 's gon na take us into one or two areas |
| 2 | But the shaming should not be of a ‘ stigmatizing ’ nature which will tend to exclude them from being accepted members of the community ; it should be of a kind which serves to reintegrate them within it , by getting them to accept that they have done wrong while encouraging others to readmit them to society . |
| 3 | A. McCormick summarizes the general opinion thus : ‘ probably the very crimes attributed to him were essential to terrorize his gang and bring them to subjection . |
| 4 | The bishops hired spies and informers to track down dissenting preachers and bring them to trial . |
| 5 | Calling for " truth and justice " in the 90,000 unresolved cases throughout Latin America , Fedefam alleged that the practice of disappearance continued in Colombia , El Salvador , Guatemala and Peru and that the experience could easily recur in countries which had failed to apprehend the culprits and bring them to trial . |
| 6 | The Rev. Owen could therefore use sign language , and together with another clergyman , encouraged the young man to seek out as many local deaf people as possible and bring them to church services . |
| 7 | In July Amnesty International called on the Uzbek authorities to ensure that the incidents were fully investigated and that every effort was made to identify the persons responsible and bring them to justice . |
| 8 | Er I 'm sure that er the Metropolitan Police will be doing everything possible to track down those who are responsible for this evil act and bring them to justice . |
| 9 | Prime Minister Mouloud Hamrouche on June 23 rejected FIS demands that the National Assembly be dissolved , saying that local elections could not " be translated politically on a national level " and that " the important thing is to deepen the reforms and bring them to fruition " . |
| 10 | And bring them to belief |
| 11 | So let's just er to put it in context again , we saw that on the day of the ascension Jesus instructed his friends to go on proclaiming the good news throughout the world to help others become disciples , and bring to them , and bring them to membership of the church through baptism . |
| 12 | It also sort of encourages them to farm as much land as they can to presumably rent more out . |
| 13 | At once she bereaves me to money and cunt . |
| 14 | He was fun with the children when they were younger , too , telling them stories about life in the countryside , taking them out — ‘ go all over the place with him , yes ’ — and seeing them to bed : ‘ he always give us a piggyback up the stairs to bed . ’ |
| 15 | In the case of Alan Charlton , he has these six very fine grey panels , by very fine I just mean they are handsomely proportioned , they are very carefully coloured to a very precise , not just colour but also weight of colour and brightness and so on , but the way they 're shown in the Royal Academy Exhibition , and this is part of it 's stupidity , is , well I got the feeling it was intended to kill them to stone dead by putting them next to something very loud , very elaborate , very expressionist , a vast canvass by a very good painter by Mutter . |
| 16 | I called him in Aswan that afternoon , I said , " Majesty , do you want me to cone ? " he said , " Come at once . " |
| 17 | He , he sat here this morning he said all serious he said I 'm cutting out potatoes , bread , biscuits and all sweet things , so I you know , I just said , well if you know if you are love , do you want me to sort of start , you know , obviously not cooking you potatoes and whatever , well what we 'll see in a , probably in about two month 's like , you know |
| 18 | An RAF helicopter spotted their craft drifting about 10 miles off Aberdovey and winched them to safety . |
| 19 | Silas 's emotional affairs are not your problem , so why are you allowing them to snake about in your mind ? |
| 20 | This involves a willingness to acknowledge that co-operation can be difficult and that mistakes will occur , and a commitment to making the solving of problems a priority , rather than allowing them to fester . |
| 21 | This requires cutting the instructions to a bare minimum , so that you are , in effect , just providing them with the seed of an idea , and allowing them to culture it . |
| 22 | When he entertained them to dinner , they travelled to his apartment at Buckingham Palace , not the other way around . |
| 23 | Their search for a new revolutionary perspective led them to Marxism and over the next decade Plekhanov , Axelrod and their ‘ Emancipation of Labour group ’ established in Switzerland a centre for the dissemination of Marxist ideas among Russian revolutionaries . |
| 24 | The pair had been trapped in an upstairs ' room until firefighters smashed their way in through a window and led them to safety down a ladder . |
| 25 | Instead their carelessness led them to Jail . |
| 26 | It was one of the magnetic forces that drew them overseas , and led them to disappointment quite as often as to wealth . |
| 27 | One does n't want them to sort of follow it blindly , of course , one wants them to discuss it carefully , very carefully , but it has to sort of fit into the ongoing life of the institution and not be a kind of little game that someone is playing on their own somewhere because they happen to be linked with the university or doing a degree or something . |
| 28 | As Mr Torode points out , our liberal forefathers insisted on the importance of testing faiths by submitting them to discussion . |
| 29 | A fun solution is to treat them to finger food . |
| 30 | Accordingly , he asked me to lunch , and we went to the Russell Hotel , which was conveniently near his office . |