Example sentences of "[vb past] them to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An RAF helicopter spotted their craft drifting about 10 miles off Aberdovey and winched them to safety . |
| 2 | When he entertained them to dinner , they travelled to his apartment at Buckingham Palace , not the other way around . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Instead their carelessness led them to Jail . |
| 6 | It was one of the magnetic forces that drew them overseas , and led them to disappointment quite as often as to wealth . |
| 7 | As their appointment was n't until the afternoon , Sukey Benedict asked them to lunch beforehand . |
| 8 | It was about er the press and unemployment and it was about the way the effects of unemployment were written about in well broadsheet and popular newspapers , it also involved a bit of a study where I gave people some articles to show which had been typed up in a fairly anonymous format and , and got them to rate them in various ways and that was in , let me see , nineteen eighty three long long time ago |
| 9 | She invited them to tea . |
| 10 | When the Social Services ' Committee raised concerns about basic definitions for collaborative working and about the apparent overlap between the care programme approach and care management , the Secretary of State for Health referred them to Community Care in the Next Decade and Beyond — Policy Guidance . |
| 11 | I envisaged myself staggering down , a dog under each arm , and roared them to heel . |
| 12 | The act of hearing and understanding the scriptures had aroused their emotions and stirred them to action . |
| 13 | The losses of many players drove them to suicide , not insolvency . |
| 14 | Possom Bourne drove them to victory in the Rally Of Indonesia … after four days and 400 kilometres they were six minutes ahead at the end |
| 15 | This was the kind of moment when words formed into meanings and , when you transferred them to paper , they turned into poetry . |
| 16 | Let me just , just show you a little thing here just enclosing , just linking it up there , there it is , it 's , it 's a well known little picture , it 's a picture of a wheel where there in the centre the hub is Christ , you see when the hub has got to be the centre otherwise the wheel does not run true and there with Christ is the hub , the centre of your life , the centre of my life , and you and I our lives our selves , there on the outside , were the rim and there 's those spokes that hold it together and make it run true the spoke of , of the bible , God 's word allowing him to speak to us , the spoke of prayer , our communion with God , our praying to him , the spoke of obedience following him obeying him , bringing our lives into , into line with what he says in his word , he says if you love me you will keep my commandments , that 's why we 've got to learn and get to know them from his word and then the spoke of fellowship somebody as likened them to prayer , being like air , our breath , the bible being like food , giving us nourishment and strength , fellowship , it 's the family situation and in just as in a nature family there is , that is the place for care , it 's the place for support it 's the place of sharing , it 's the place of love , where it should be , so God 's family , and then the final one their obedience like exercise , keeping fit , it 's the callisthenics , it 's keeping the muscles toned , obeying what he tells us in his word , well that 's what it means to be a Christian bringing ourselves into line with him and allowing him to re-fashion us in his image and it 's a process that 's going on all the time , Wesley and his hymn talks about us being used and the scripture being changed from glory into glory , till in heaven we take our place there , like him , John says when we see him , we shall be like him , but we shall see him as he is and that 's God 's purpose for you and for me , to be like him , and the moment we come to him and respond to him , the process starts and it goes on , day in , day out , night in , night out , week in , week out , over the years him changing and fashioning us into the image of his son , because that 's how he created us originally , he created to be like him and in this new creation , we were singing we are a new creation , it 's to be like him . |
| 17 | He had then lain in wait for the man 's wife and daughter and knifed them to death as they returned from a shopping trip . |
| 18 | Its story is well-known : its fretted neck allowed guitarists to relate to it , and it allowed them to double-up on bass if required . |
| 19 | " When these telegrams came I ran down and opened the door to the boy and I showed them to Mummy and she began very bravely , how lovely dear , and then began to cry and shut herself in her room . |
| 20 | Literally , we scared them to death ! |
| 21 | The ancient rituals which linked them to fertility and the renewal of life were abandoned . |
| 22 | Runways were constructed and a squadron of jet fighters pounded them to destruction . |
| 23 | He touched them to keeper . |
| 24 | She turned them inside out , returned them to Dot to put on with the insides now on the outside . |
| 25 | They were much favoured by the French ( hence the name ) , who developed and raised them to prominence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , until the introduction of the Chinese wonders . |
| 26 | Their anomalous position illustrates the danger of reading back ( even into the 1950s , let alone the 1930s ) the more precisely defined contemporary categories , and eventually exposed them to abolition . |
| 27 | During the late nineteenth century , Medical Officers of Health , in particular , contended that women going out to work were responsible for raising the infant mortality rate because they tended to bottle-feed their infants and because , by carrying them out to nurse in the early morning , they exposed them to bronchitis . |
| 28 | And you had get the two people who were at the back , you have to get them out before you landed because when you when you brought the flaps up if they were still in this little bay you would squash them to death and one day his dials showed that he had , in fact , squashed them to death ! |
| 29 | Do you know , not a single rotten member of my miserable household appeared to be in the least little bit aware of the joyful nature of the dawn which I gaily urged them to acclaim . |
| 30 | And he did the same thing at Brackley Town , he guided them to success , their best ever season , he 's gone to Buckingham Town , took a few players with him , so Brackley Town , they 're not too pleased and they 're going to be out to beat Buckingham Town tonight , but I 'm going to sit on the fence and go for Buckingham 3 1 . |