Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] to their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see them down to their dinner and I have the pots done before I take a bite |
| 2 | And that they , two people , you know somebody every week will collect in all the languages books and take them along er , or the language homework and take them along to their language teacher and the other one will take the history le , homework and take them on to the history teacher , and then they go off to assembly alright ? |
| 3 | ‘ They 've invited you down to their warehouse , they want to take some photos . ’ |
| 4 | Nobody expects Brigadoon with tartan-skirted villagers singing softly as they fill your arms with sweet heather and invite you in to their fireside . |
| 5 | Now the inn is more geared to motorists , who much to their surprise , find the road terminates at the door of the inn rather than continuing to Windermere . |
| 6 | However , in order to sway you over to their way of thinking , Peterson might paraphrase the old adage and say , ‘ Look after the cents and the dollars will take care of themselves … ’ |
| 7 | And then Paul takes me up to their house where I , usually about ten past eleven gives me time to get the pushchair put up again and |
| 8 | I , I tell them that erm Pat offered , I 'll just tell them straight to their face |
| 9 | The thieves had obviously been back and forth over the ravine ferrying everything back to their car . |
| 10 | The pros play in the par-three for fun , to give something back to their public in return for the millions of dollars they earn from golf . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've had a splendid time , ’ she replied instead , and when some minutes later a taxi whisked them back to their hotel she felt it had been a dream of an evening . |
| 12 | Wait near the toilet for any resident who is unsafe to leave on their own and help them back to their room . |
| 13 | After towing them back to their ship we were friends for life and the word soon went round the fleet . |
| 14 | They merely collect orders and pass them back to their principal who fulfils the orders direct . |
| 15 | Now , as from the times of childhood , she rode Fenna , seated in the deep hollow of the meeting place of scaled neck , veined wing and rising battlement of spine ; a throne protected from the great gale of his flight , as safe as the rocky cradle secures the foetal child , leaning back towards the bumpy spine as she had leant before , she gave herself over to their journey . |
| 16 | The thought of her twitching her last in a plastic hat , face covered with green mud , carried him through to their bedroom ( a room Elinor had taken to calling ‘ my ’ bedroom ) and shored him up against Maisie 's rendition of the second subject in ‘ Für Elise ’ . |
| 17 | The androids had pulled the shaking and distraught officer from the wreck of the room and taken him directly to their controller . |
| 18 | Heller & Partners provided such a report to Hedley Byrne 's bankers , who passed it on to their customer . |
| 19 | He contracts HIV and passes it on to his wife , who then passes it on to their child . |
| 20 | Few people are happy about the idea of an animal having to die so that either they or their pet can feed , and might well be prepared to eat a synthetic steak if one could be produced — and to serve it up to their cat . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought I 'd shoot a hole in their heads and mail 'em back to their bossman . ’ |
| 22 | One of the less endearing habits of the time , was to remove the head of the principal adversary , and carry it back to their castle , as a grisly trophy of war . |
| 23 | The lack of material symbols of religion seems to have brought them closer to their God . |
| 24 | You 've got to bring yourself down to their level . |
| 25 | Later on this might have led to complaints about the possibility of corruption ; at the time it was simply seen as evidence that politicians were committing themselves fully to their work . |
| 26 | ‘ Yeltsin and Kravchuk are dragging us down to their level , and Admiral Chernavin just gives in , ’ he said , adding : ‘ I believe the military will seize power . ’ |