Example sentences of "[vb pp] them [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 've checked them out to your satisfaction , then fair enough . |
| 2 | Years ago Constance 's mother had kept chickens at the bottom of the garden , and when they went off the lay one of her sons-in-law had strangled them and she had given them away to the neighbours , being unable to eat a bird she had known personally . |
| 3 | They used to be Bangor fans but I think I have won them over to Glentoran . ’ |
| 4 | From the beginning of their history , the amphibians were hunters , preying on the worms , insects and other invertebrates that had preceded them on to the land . |
| 5 | Stratford had leased them out to Thomas Merryat , or Merret , but by the 1620s , his grandson , John , had taken control and was leasing the mills to a Stroud textile dealer , Gyles Davis . |
| 6 | However , Chelsea fans went home deliriously happy after the club 's seventh win in eight games , a run which has moved them up to fifth place . |
| 7 | She had given up work to have the children and she 'd seen them through to school age , when she 'd gone out and found herself another job . |
| 8 | ‘ Forty of them would have voted against her if the Lord God Almighty had come down and instructed them not to ’ said one minister . |
| 9 | Why else had he come up to Tucker 's for fags when he could have got them closer to home ? |
| 10 | I 've brought out a pack of cards , but when you know you 've got them only to while away the hours , they are as exciting as a stack of washing up . |
| 11 | Molly did n't remind her that they must n't arrive too early because S. Kettering had told them not to . |
| 12 | this trouble once with a with a young child and er I told this this this person er granny figure if you like , do n't talk to those children I 've told them not to they went on and on and on . |
| 13 | Musk oxen were formerly widespread across the low tundra , but hunting by man has now restricted them mainly to north Greenland and the Canadian far north . |
| 14 | The lack of material symbols of religion seems to have brought them closer to their God . |
| 15 | Rivalry over girls had brought them almost to blows many times ; but not quite . |
| 16 | She prepared some tea for them , chatting about generalities , asking them what had brought them back to France . |
| 17 | You can say that if they do n't keep to the agreed rules of the drama , then the magic will start to fail ; if they climb up the wall-bars when you have asked them not to , you can say that the magic only works when their feet are touching the ground , thus using the fiction of the drama to limit the space they work in and remind them through a dramatic device of those rules which you will have agreed before the lesson begins ( see also the section on " Control " in Chapter 4 ) . |
| 18 | It was on a Friday night and I had packed my suitcases and taken them around to Rachel 's house so her dad could stack them on top of the car . |
| 19 | She did n't know where half the things went , but she tidied them up and put them in piles on the stairs so people could taken them up to their rooms when they went , and the kitchen looked nice and tidy . |
| 20 | They had visited the fifteenth-century pavilion , which had taken them back to the world of 1492 and immersed them in an era that led up to the discovery of America . |
| 21 | What had happened was that , having marched in straight lines over open flat ground for a while , their paths had taken them close to a pebble . |
| 22 | So she 's quite pleased that she 's put them on to it , it is difficult . |
| 23 | In the intimidating atmosphere of the Mararios Stadium they silenced the partisan crowd with an early goal and then came so close to getting a second which would surely have put them through to a money spinning meeting with Paris St Germaine . |
| 24 | But I like to think that I have kept them up to date . |
| 25 | They perhaps kill a pig , you know , roughly this size or , we have killed them up to thirty four stone , yeah , each . |
| 26 | The young , untrained dog must have chased them up to the edge of the pit , where they fell to their death . |
| 27 | She 's sent them up to a London publisher who is actually going to bring them out — Multiculturalism and Pluralism in the New Europe . |
| 28 | I found these of great interest and I have sent them on to our Meirionnydd Branch Committee who will want to give them careful consideration . |
| 29 | I 've sent them back to both in their trainers . |
| 30 | He and Amy had collected large stones from the beach , looking for those with holes in them — and he had strung them on to strong cord and tied them along one side of the playpen . |