Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] to their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Urueu-Wau-Wau indian leaders have said in a statement to Survival International that they can no longer tolerate the invasion of miners and loggers on to their land . |
| 2 | If you 're desperately trying to speak to somebody and they 're out of the office , I do n't know , they 're just not there , you can camp on to their handset even though you just get ringing . |
| 3 | So it 's not engaged , but you can still camp on to their handset , basically the computer , tell them when it 's next used . |
| 4 | ‘ The small clubs deliberately maintain bad pitches to bring the big clubs down to their level , ’ said Gilmar . |
| 5 | But his handling of the industry portfolio incurred the wrath of industry leaders who appear to have won the president over to their side ( New Scientist 10 March , p 646 ) . |
| 6 | Lowes did in fact trace many of the images unerringly to their source ; and what was even more interesting was how Coleridge 's mind took the raw material of some explorer , and twisted it and mixed it with many other ideas to produce the incomparable poetry of The Ancient Mariner and Xanadu . |
| 7 | Each committee 's membership is allocated between the two parties proportionally to their membership of the full house so that , for example , if the Democrats have 60 per cent of the Senate seats they will get approximately 60 per cent of each committee 's seats . |
| 8 | The Soviets , with control of the eastern zone , could pose as the champions of German reunification and try to win West Germans over to their side . |
| 9 | Moreover , he would not be in the same position as the rest of us to cotton on to their use . |
| 10 | ‘ I doubt whether babies have the software to be able to map these experiences on to their memory . ’ |
| 11 | Darlington have a tough run in to their league programme and are in desperate need of points to stay in division one of the North-Eastern League . |
| 12 | It is too complicated to send large numbers of bills over to their accountant every day . |
| 13 | They are frequently denied the choice of living in the village in which they were born and brought up or in the village close to their employment . |
| 14 | After some twenty years delay — due to the intervening war — a start was made , in 1957 , on the Great West Road Extension through Chiswick , to meet the Cromwell Road extension being constructed by the London County Council up to their boundary on the Hammersmith — Chiswick border . |
| 15 | At the same time , the LRDG would be watching the road , counting traffic and signalling the intelligence back to their base . |
| 16 | the quality of lateral communications , which may enable subordinates to get jobs done without constant reference back to their superior ; |
| 17 | Luke took the visitors back to their car some time after eleven . |
| 18 | The Department of Transport is planning to build the A417 Cirencester to Stratton bypass through the valley … and there will also be a road realignment which will bring the work closer to their home . |
| 19 | All four Girls eventually danced all over the world , sending quite a considerable amount of money home to their mother . |
| 20 | These recordings are already available on cassette and are now issued on CD for the first time , the first disc is an ADD transfer , but the digital remastering is wholly natural with not artificial brightening of the treble response — as too often happens — and so those who admire warm analogue sound will find this disc wholly to their taste . |
| 21 | But er interestingly , the Americans have just put er more tax on to their gas for , for different reasons admittedly , and er the environmentalists er always feel happy about that because they 've been the ones who 've been telling us for years that er petrol is if anything underpriced , and that we 're rather profligate in the way that we use it , so er at least some people are happy out of this , not everybody , but it , but er it 's making some people happier . |
| 22 | Throws which drop the opponent on to their head or shoulders will be penalised . |
| 23 | Not everyone can last the course down here ; they find the long hours and the winter climate not to their liking , and there is a high drop-out rate . ’ |
| 24 | Glass-fibre remains an inexpensive and effective reinforcement material , but in recent years it has been upstaged by Kevlar and carbon fibre , two stronger but more costly materials that owe their high profile largely to their use in formula racing cars . |
| 25 | Knights owe their allegiance directly to their lord : the Elector Count of their province . |
| 26 | North European businesses found it satisfactory to farm out big clerical jobs to London agencies , and international corporations making domestic appliances found the nimble-fingered women of the North and Midlands surprisingly to their taste . |
| 27 | Big men came , and loaded all my stuff on to their pick-up . |
| 28 | But when the citizens of the Association of Futures Brokers and Dealers cast their stones into the pot last week and elected the managing director of Amalgamated Metal Trading on to their council with the biggest number of votes , they elevated the nearest that divided body has seen to a populist . |
| 29 | CAROLINE McCLYMONT , the daughter of the late Charlie MacMillan , and the American-bred Agathist , with three successes already to their name in ladies races over Bogside 's former National Hunt racecourse , can land a fourth tomorrow if they turn out for the Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire fixtures at Irvine . |
| 30 | Darlington people will be able to hand their goods over to their milkman on collection days until March 6 . |