Example sentences of "[verb] they [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is not just the Pope of the Roman Catholics but a symbol of human beings striving to create institutions and practices which bring them closer to the ways of God . |
| 2 | Yes , that was some time ago when I was working as a hostess with the British Council and used to collect meet VIPs at the station and bring them here to the university . |
| 3 | ‘ He says bring them straight to the first tee . |
| 4 | Next he led the spinnaker sheets aft to the cockpit and made them fast to the stern cleats with plenty of slack . |
| 5 | The porter took care of their horses and Lady Amelia , walking like a ghost before them , led them across to the guest house . |
| 6 | She pinned them bravely to the shoulder of her dress , touched the blooms lightly with her fingers and said to the room at large , |
| 7 | Soil pipes from downstairs WCs may be connected to the main soil stack of a single-stack system , but it is often better to connect them directly to the underground drains . |
| 8 | In the hit movie Withnall and I , the two visit Riggindale and it drives them almost to the brink of distraction . |
| 9 | See lot lot of these jobs are done by the tide , say you take a ship now what 's been sunk in the river , at low tide they 'll put the wires underneath , make them fast to the ships and when the tide when the t t tide rise out come the ship , and they can take it where they want to . |
| 10 | FastPort allows you to move printers to convenient locations and connect them directly to the network . |
| 11 | ( d ) The massive body of historical research that has gone on throughout this century has gradually discovered new sources of information and refined our views of the early modern period , in all probability bringing them closer to the objective truth . |
| 12 | Years ago Constance 's mother had kept chickens at the bottom of the garden , and when they went off the lay one of her sons-in-law had strangled them and she had given them away to the neighbours , being unable to eat a bird she had known personally . |
| 13 | It seemed as if Lydia would take them like a new baby and display them triumphantly to the assembled company . |
| 14 | They know that we send them straight to the cells at An Dap now , no matter how badly they injure themselves . |
| 15 | If their shells are near the Julies , then it might be politic to shuffle them gradually to the other end . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's a good thing you do n't know any secrets — you 'd give them away to the milkman ! ’ ’ |
| 17 | Do n't just give them away to the adventurers if they do n't bother even to search this room ; they must make an effort to find these bizarre items and take an interest in finding out what they do . |
| 18 | Well , oh best if you cut them almost to the end like that then butter them and stick them back together again Have I got that cream ? |
| 19 | Then on Monday the chauffeur drove them straight to the theatre for the show . |
| 20 | Make the mix fairly dry and press it well down into the joints , filling them right to the top and finishing them flush . |
| 21 | A telephone call alerting them briefly to the problem followed up by a letter is usually the most effective approach . |
| 22 | My hon. Friend the Member for Stroud ( Mr. Knapman ) understood all these points and put them clearly to the Opposition . |
| 23 | As of the end of June 1991 at least six of these statutes were undergoing the process of appeal which would almost certainly bring them eventually to the Supreme Court , where any of them could serve as the occasion for the reversal of the 1973 landmark abortion rights ruling , Roe v. Wade . |
| 24 | erm I think and what I 'll try and do , I 'll try and bring erm , I 've got two on the Thursday and I 'll try and bring them forward to the Monday , cos Monday 's a baker 's day is n't it ? |
| 25 | Reinforcing this quest for the extraordinary , which by definition should bring them quickly to the margins of deviance , is the fact … that one of the frequent rewards of achievement is an immunity to many of the sanctions that constrain and punish the less successful . |
| 26 | If they are knitting successfully I leave them alone ; if they do n't knit successfully I select them manually to the holding position ( with the holding levers set to knit ) to help them knit . |
| 27 | She skips and twists among them , sniffing their hind-quarters , until at last she finds the two she seeks , her own young , and leads them away to the shade of a bush and there lets them suckle . |
| 28 | Like those of neighbouring Bouzy , they possess qualities somewhere between the solid , full-bodied and strongly perfumed Verzenay and the smooth , exceptionally aromatic Aÿ but their great strength and vinosity edges them closer to the former than the latter . |
| 29 | He followed them sadly to the door . |
| 30 | The single-deckers became known appropriately as railcoaches , a name which placed them firmly to the forefront of modern transport . |