Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] them to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The aim is to encourage public awareness about the value of the buildings around them and to get owners who no longer want the properties , to sell or lease them to new people . ’ |
| 2 | You can paint or stain them to any colour you want . |
| 3 | Their main advantages are : wood is an excellent insulator ; the windows come in an wide range of standard sizes ( and non-standard ones are easy for a joiner to make up if necessary ) ; they are , generally speaking , the cheapest type of replacement window to buy ; and you can paint or stain them to any colour you want . |
| 4 | Telling me the strangest things sometimes , evil things — till I want to shout out or smash them to pieces . |
| 5 | It 's better to take them with you in the car rather than consign them to the chilly furniture van . |
| 6 | Rather than refer them to other people , I find myself , as I am sure my colleagues do too , making the basic applications for citizens who come to me in order to save them time , effort and money . |
| 7 | But there can be little or no dispute about the appalling state of agriculture as a result of forced collectivisation and the fact that millions of farm animals were slaughtered by the peasants rather than allow them to be collectivised , nor can the starvation and deaths be disputed . |
| 8 | The DoE Policy Note states that it is the aim ‘ to steer holiday caravan development to a limited number of areas , usually those in which caravans are already established , rather than allow them to be scattered more widely ’ . |
| 9 | During his next sermon he said he would leave Kidderminster rather than cause them to be guilty of his murder . |
| 10 | We shall attempt to apply and adapt them to a much shorter viewing distance , under controlled laboratory conditions . |
| 11 | And so to try and bring them to heel , er we referred the matter to the district . |
| 12 | Then she 'd jump out and scare them to death ! |
| 13 | The ferreting season has just ended and those people with no more than a passing interest , perhaps a failed interest , will then be keen to dispose of their stock rather than feed and maintain them to the start of another season . |
| 14 | and she 's going round , she 's gon na try and take them to court ! |
| 15 | So if you want to get rid of somebody you can go and tell them to peu de doci which means getting lost . |
| 16 | Whatever dreams or desires are turning you on you 'll want to pursue and promote them to the Nth degree this weekend . |