Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] to the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He preferred outwork : " In a factory you confine them to the hours the master pleases , in the cottage they work very often 15 or 16 hours . " |
| 2 | She says we do n't want to destroy children 's innocence on the other hand we want to alert them to the dangers . |
| 3 | Sell them to the knackers yard . |
| 4 | It is perhaps not inappropriate to compare them to the astronauts in our own day : they had broken into an uncharted region , blazed a new trail to God and to the depths of the self and had returned to earth like the heroes of antiquity , bringing news of a hitherto unimaginable realm which gave an entirely new perspective on the human condition . |
| 5 | I checked my hexagram against the index , which led me to the pages headed Ta Kuo : Preponderance of the Great . |
| 6 | Of course , this consequence follows because the building society is in effect attracting funds from the public sector and channelling them to the borrowers that we identified in section 4.1.1 . |
| 7 | He says that at the end of the Laws of Moses one finds the following words : " Moses , having heard the words of God , transmitted them to the Jews . " |
| 8 | Mellowes has assigned me to the duties of the administrative assistants , then to those of the statistical clerks . |
| 9 | And I 'm really proud that the men in the tank recommended me to the jailers to be the trusty . |
| 10 | to deal with entries entailing exemption from part of the Course on behalf of the Polytechnic Dispensations Committee , to set appropriate conditions for such entries and to report them to the Dispensations Committee ; and |
| 11 | All the tunes mentioned so far were , so to speak , rescued from the hands of ‘ folk ’ song collectors and those of ‘ refined ’ parlour performers ; Corvan 's texts articulate them to the needs of his class , at a particular moment in its history . |
| 12 | Similarly , our modern managers bring on their favoured assistants , introduce them to the secrets of the filofax and the business lunch , and teach them how to influence important people . |
| 13 | Then , recovering her poise , she said , ‘ Perhaps you would direct me to the Ladies . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Send them to the police , for God 's sake , ’ Dickinson said . |
| 15 | As they conquered peninsular Italy and Sicily in the third century BC , the Romans took works of art and dedicated them to the gods at Rome . |
| 16 | He could not trust them to the dairymaids , because if the cows were badly milked their milk would simply dry up . |
| 17 | The muscles are strengthened by an increased flow of blood , as are the ligaments that attach them to the bones . |
| 18 | We may need to devote more attention to helping the teacher discern their effects and to relate them to the intentions . |
| 19 | Someone reported them to the authorities . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 21 | Well no the , the owner , the baker reported them to the police . |
| 22 | Myeloski , still unsteady on his feet from the effects of the flight , had weakly harangued a local taxi-driver into driving them to the police station . |
| 23 | So we 're testing , those priorities are still holding for us that but we 're applying them to the localities . |
| 24 | She used to regularly get tickets for Hancock 's Half Hour radio shows simply for the chance to see Ken at work — ‘ Men used to fight to escort me to the broadcasts . ’ |
| 25 | In fact these forms provide particularly striking examples of the process of struggle — crossing the lines of development of media , content and practice , and relating them to the positions of different groups — which is a more accurate picture of the general history than any simple structure of antitheses . |
| 26 | This section discusses ELT video materials under these headings as a way of relating them to the roles we can give video in the classroom . |
| 27 | The Index at the back of the book will direct you to the details , but if you are only aware of a symptom , this checklist may help you to diagnose the plumbing problem . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , stop it , or I 'll tie you to the bedposts with silk ribbons and do wicked things to you , so you wo n't be able to think of anything else . ’ |
| 29 | The time that it takes to embalm her and send her to the Fields of Aarru . ’ |
| 30 | SUN man Paul Welford has reported him to the police , and Flashman said : ‘ If people want to do that , then fair enough . |