Example sentences of "[to-vb] they to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Some nectar-eating ants cut down on the time they spend searching for food by using their body clock to alert them to mealtimes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A fun solution is to treat them to finger food . |
| 5 | To enable them to police such a large and inaccessible area he recommended the building of a number of new fortresses , to be linked , by road and water , for rapid reinforcement . |
| 6 | The subscribers merely asked their local operator ( no dials in those days ) to connect them to Electrophone . |
| 7 | She certainly would n't want to drive them to London . |
| 8 | Eventually their father came to some arrangement with the Education Authority and he was able to afford a small car to drive them to school . |
| 9 | Now there are plans afoot to reintroduce them to Britain on a grand scale for the ‘ gourmet ’ market . |
| 10 | Loretta and Bridget stood up to join him , bending and stretching their cramped legs to restore them to life . |
| 11 | In the next section , we shall bring together the models of welfare and levels of prevention which have been expounded in this paper so far , and attempt to relate them to child care policy and practice . |
| 12 | It is preceded by a prologue ( Genesis 1–11 ) , consisting of ancient records and traditions , which serve not only to introduce the main themes of the narrative but also to relate them to God 's purposes in the world of fallen men , of divided nations and of a created order which was originally good . |
| 13 | During the 1950s and early 1960s a lot of effort was devoted to attempts , in the first place , to identify and measure parental attitudes and , in the second place , to relate them to characteristics of child behaviour . |
| 14 | It has taken subsequent theoretical work by others to relate them to geography . |
| 15 | The government also planned to distribute areas of forest to families among the Thai and Hmong hill tribespeople in order to encourage them to farm one area of land continuously rather than using traditional " slash and burn " methods . |
| 16 | It is a paradox — one of the many paradoxes of mysticism — that even though mystics insist that their experiences are radically ineffable , many of the great mystics have felt compelled to write them down and to try to communicate them to others . |
| 17 | Both oral presentation and writing , however , have an additional function in helping the researchers to sort out and understand their findings in order to be able to communicate them to others . |
| 18 | Initially what we should all do is go back and look at those draft guidelines for the registration of nursing homes and be prepared to pull them to pieces , not so much for what they are saying but for what they are not saying and ought to be saying in order to be relevant . |
| 19 | The handcuffs are cumbersome , perhaps little used , and it takes an askari a long time to adjust them to Tepilit 's thin wrists . |
| 20 | Ted has now branched out into making clocks in the shape of different countries , and formed a small business to sell them to ex-pat communities around the world . |
| 21 | This relates to the situation where A sells or agrees to sell goods to B and then later sells or agrees to sell them to C. To whom do the goods belong ? |
| 22 | An eleven year old boy has been held at gunpoint by armed raiders and forced to lead them to money and jewellery at his family home . |
| 23 | The alert sergeant catches them in the act , and with the help of the vintners , tries to lead them to prison . |
| 24 | When the horses , being bridled to lead them to safety , panicked and lashed out in the dark , threatening to do worse harm to the buildings than the wind would , it was his father who forced his way between them and dragged out the pair who were causing most trouble . |
| 25 | ‘ One is enough to lead them to Landfall . ’ |
| 26 | He even played in the club second fifteen as a prop in preference to being at lock for the first although , when the senior side was in relegation danger , he acceded to the club selectors ' request to revert to lock to help them to safety . |
| 27 | They snarled at them as if they were criminals and took their papers as if they 'd like to tear them to shreds . |
| 28 | If the average person fought any reasonably competent knifeman with bare hands , it 's unlikely that he or she would survive a determined effort to stab them to death . |
| 29 | And he used to walk them all the way , I remember once him starting out er from what we call Hole , that 's at the top of the hill there , er starting out to walk them to Newcastle , and he took eleven . |
| 30 | But the FOBs have , in the past , liked their man not just because he was interested in ideas for their own sake , but because he wanted to apply them to government . |