Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] they to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a large debt issue is undertaken , the Bank will underwrite a large proportion of the issue and slowly sell them to the market over a period of time to avoid excess supply of government debt . |
| 2 | This led him to assert that , in spite of ‘ the gross and grievous abominations ’ of Rome , ‘ yet touching those main parts of Christian truth wherein they constantly still persist , we gladly acknowledge them to be the family of Jesus Christ ’ . |
| 3 | Trains had been laid on to despatch them to all parts of the country , so that for the rest of their lives they would be able to recall a few moments of honour , even glory . |
| 4 | After all , bright children usually expect to succeed , hence success and praise do not surprise them or necessarily raise them to new levels of performance . |
| 5 | in so far as this order purports to have any extraterritorial effect , no person shall be affected thereby or concerned with the terms thereof until it shall be declared enforceable or be enforced by a foreign court and then it shall only affect them to the extent of such declaration or enforcement unless they are : |
| 6 | It goes without saying that the strap loops must be large enough to enable them to be cast off the hands quickly in any emergency . |
| 7 | Captaining Jamaica for the second successive season , he not only led them to Red Stripe Cup triumph ( their third in five years ) , but , with the ball , he broke the tournament record with 36 wickets at 11.30 . |
| 8 | Clearly , parents generally must welcome the news that cuddling is not only nice but necessary ; perhaps , however , we should spare a compassionate thought once more for the intellectual mothers of the thirties , whose sufferings as they tried to be ‘ good ’ mothers are now repeated in the knowledge that all their efforts only led them to be ‘ bad ’ mothers : as one of our correspondents added , ‘ Here is Bowlby , still out to make us feel guilty — about our rejection of the children we loved but were not allowed to love . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ How I loathe people who raise one 's hopes , only to dash them to the ground ! ’ |
| 10 | In their defensive exchanges , they ceased to value what had first so attracted them to each other . |
| 11 | Anyone who considers such trivial questions as humour or literary merit is clearly living in a previous century and I can only refer them to the motto of the Punch accountancy department , which is : ‘ If they can read , we do n't want 'em . ’ |
| 12 | Yeah , but you 're not stupid enough to sell them to me would you ? |
| 13 | Most of the 16-year-olds say their fathers have more or less told them to ‘ go out and have a good time ’ . |
| 14 | The armed forces apparently believed them to be carrying an order for King Bhumibol Adulyadej to sign dismissing Gen. Sunthorn Kongsompong as Armed Forces Supreme Commander . |
| 15 | There are occasional arrivals of odd specimens of Fairy Basslets which are not easily identified , and some , as in the case of Pseudanthias pulcherimus from the western Indian Ocean have male and female forms different enough to cause them to be frequently treated as separate species . |
| 16 | I could ask the other players ( providing of course that Leeds are in the Final ) , however because of all the troubles the players and Managers have had in the past , most of them wo n't sell their tickets and usually only give them to their families in case they fall into the wrong hands , and then they are in trouble . |
| 17 | The trouble is we never stop long enough to put them to good use . |
| 18 | The shark can not suddenly twist them to a vertical position to act as brakes . |
| 19 | A route which none the less delivered them to their destinations safely and on time , and proved , on later inquiry , to have avoided an entirely unforeseeable hazard or delay ? |
| 20 | As with the Cel Editor , you may import a number of different image file types to form your background , and may , indeed , find that you prefer to work on backgrounds in another package altogether , and bring them into the Background Editor only to convert them to the Device Independent Bitmap ( DIB ) format that is native to the package . |
| 21 | And then : oh , please , if there have to be more lies , at least let me only tell them to other people , not to myself any more . |
| 22 | Finally , care has been taken to keep the stories short and simple enough to allow them to be read at normal first-language speed . |
| 23 | ‘ An ’ the bastard even went on to confirm that the bombs are set on time fuses , just sufficient to allow him an' his staff to escape , but not enough to allow them to be de-activated , or to evacuate the ordinary members from the building … an' most of them are just kids . ’ |
| 24 | They had no sanctioned power to intervene in the affairs of their members , but only to represent them to outsiders . |
| 25 | There is a possibility that transient UOS relaxations may be unusually easy to trigger in some subjects and so predispose them to oesophagopharyngeal reflux . |
| 26 | The mortgage company had acted with forbearance , only taking them to court as a last resort . |
| 27 | The real mystery about his story is not why two wives refused to make love to him , but how he stopped talking about himself long enough to invite them to bed in the first place . |
| 28 | ‘ You were walking along muttering them to yourself . |
| 29 | I think there 's something that we have n't discussed , and that 's that , doctors do n't seem to prescribe tranquillizers to men , it 's women , and they do wrongly prescribe them to women . |
| 30 | The rarity of lianes on truly oceanic islands , e.g. Mauritius and Galapagos Islands ( one or two only ) , can be explained by wind-dispersal not being efficient enough to get them to islands . |