Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] them to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 2 | Well no the , the owner , the baker reported them to the police . |
| 3 | Bloom et al. " s study of how to is acquired in infinitival complement constructions led them to the clear conclusion that " the children learned to with the meaning " " direction towards " " and not as a meaningless syntactic marker " ( 1984 : 391 ) . |
| 4 | Glenn Hoddle got them to the Premier league … maybe Keith Scott can keep them there ! |
| 5 | Other voluntary hospitals with such funds lost them to the Exchequer , which pooled them in a central fund . |
| 6 | A white limousine took them to the church . |
| 7 | When war was declared and Braque and Derain returned to join their regiments in Paris , Picasso escorted them to the station in Avignon . |
| 8 | After a dry tour , the brewery directed them to the local pub — which sells a RIVAL brew . |
| 9 | ‘ At the Brisbane Hotel dinner , Jimmy Conn treated them to the full Address to the Haggis , splendidly translated by interpreter Pru Williams . ’ |
| 10 | These documents , the fitter sent them to the office . |
| 11 | The fitter sent them to the office , these documents . |
| 12 | The exquisite creation they had made of their own lives blinded them to the aspirations of less fortunate men and women . |
| 13 | The curtain of rain caught them up and in a moment soaked them to the skin . |
| 14 | But he proved right about the size of Switham Thicket , for a bare quarter of a mile brought them to the outskirts of the other side , and almost immediately the horse was turned into a walled aperture of crumbling stone , its high , rusty iron gates wide open . |
| 15 | Owen accompanied them to the front entrance himself . |
| 16 | ‘ Some people kept little trees in secret courtyards , and flowers in their houses , but they were n't supposed to , and if their neighbours reported them to the police the people would have their trees chopped down and the flowers taken away and they would be fined or put in prison , where they had to work very hard , rubbing out writing on bits of paper so they could be used again . ’ |
| 17 | George nodded and Tippy brought them to the bed and handed them to him . |
| 18 | The Hastings brothers , he concluded , had made the significant contribution for the city team as their victory eased them to the sanctuary of ten points in the McEwan 's First Division . |
| 19 | Madame Gebrec accompanied them to the car . |
| 20 | A submarine took them to the island and the party made a successful landing in rubber boats . |
| 21 | ‘ The William S. Paley Collection ’ ( 28 February-16 May ) consists of eighty-four mainly intimate-scaled early modern works acquired by the late founder of CBS , and bequeathed to a foundation that in turn conveyed them to the Museum of Modern Art in New York , where Paley was chairman emeritus at the time of his death in 1990 . |
| 22 | Only a mad dash got them to the meeting on time . |
| 23 | Cross and Bevan 's interest in the chemistry of cellulose led them to the study of the viscose solutions produced by treating cellulose with a strong solution of caustic soda and then carbon disulphide vapour . |
| 24 | In April 1860 the Minister of Internal Affairs presented " Temporary Rules on District Land Offices " to the State Council , but in June the tsar returned them to the ministry to await the preparation of a Statute on Provincial Institutions . |
| 25 | Political prudence and the dangers of a frontal attack on the Church restrained them to the sale of common lands and the abolition of civil entails , ‘ pulling up by the roots the tree which bears such bitter fruits ’ . |
| 26 | The road brought them to the centre of the two rows of thatched cottages . |
| 27 | But the Cup defeat brought out the team 's fighting qualities , and a resurgence took them to the League Championship with 58 points , four ahead of Aston Villa , and with 118 goals . |
| 28 | Talbot led them to the wardroom and gestured them to their seats . |
| 29 | Discussing Mr Cottle as Stanley drove them to the auction , Emily said : ‘ He was here when Rose … ’ |
| 30 | His team , he admits , got away with murder in this match before goals from Paul Showler and Mark Carter took them to the top . |