Example sentences of "[verb] them [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Switch on and move the appropriate levers on the banks of controllers , and the children come running out of the house , little pink-cheeked creatures half an inch high , who turn to wave at Felicity as she comes out on the terrace to see them off to school . |
| 2 | Clench your fists and bring them up to shoulder height , knuckles upward , elbows at your sides . |
| 3 | She does n't avoid the painful issues that divide us — but , as few writers can , she makes us laugh at them and bring them down to size . |
| 4 | Many are being refitted with the same smart new decor which will make them easier to spot on the high street . |
| 5 | However , the success of the Inuit is based far more on dressing , housing and feeding themselves as well as possible , and avoiding risks that would expose them unduly to cold . |
| 6 | He kissed her wet lips , warmly , tenderly , bringing them back to life , and she was lost in her love for him and his for her and she really did n't care if they never talked again . |
| 7 | When they were n't running across it , cheered on by the headmaster , they were snipping bits off it and bringing them back to school to put in jars . |
| 8 | Indeed , she was conscious of good fortune in having at last got a council flat in Southwark , and in having good neighbours in the flat across the landing who saw that her children — a boy of nine and a girl of seven — ate their breakfast , and got them off to school . |
| 9 | By February 1916 pressure was mounting again , and resolutions calling for compulsory national service were flowing in ; the Executive refused to debate them , but passed them on to Law nevertheless . |
| 10 | We send them away to school — have to , living in the depths of the country . |
| 11 | Their parents are the ones who send them off to school and say , just do your best . |
| 12 | If there 's anything embedded in it like gravel or something and it does n't come away easily you must n't , it comes under the categories of what you call foreign bodies , which first aider is not at liberty to poke about , you must leave foreign bodies that do n't come away easily where they are and bandage them round and send them off to hospital or a doctor , but assuming it 's just a little clean graze , if I have n't got a tap to put it under , then I must use little bits of gauze to wash , put in a bowl of water and just wipe , yeah , and you always wipe obviously from the centre of a wound towards the outside , otherwise if you start to wipe across the whole thing you take dirt from one side of the wound across and drop it off in the middle somewhere , so you wipe from the centre out and throw that piece away and you take another piece and wipe from the centre out and so on until you feel happy , quite happy . |
| 13 | Indeed any attempt to relate them prematurely to reality may restrict the development of the model . |
| 14 | To air clothes when there is no airing cupboard is not only a chore , but an expensive one , while to fail to air all the unworn clothes is frequently to write them off to mildew . |
| 15 | Nonesuch reverts to its old function , keeping the University as a whole together , telling graduates what is going on in their old alma mater , and keeping them up to date with what their contemporaries are doing . |
| 16 | General practitioners have also found intensive courses in diabetes helpful in keeping them up to date and improving their clinical skills . |
| 17 | Yes , I believe that 's about getting pe , getting the lists of order , keeping them up to date erm . |
| 18 | His eye measured these impressive heights coolly , relating them always to sea level rather than to their own grandeur , and correcting Boswell 's exultation over ‘ another mountain I called immense : Johnson : ‘ No ; it is no more than a considerable protuberance . ’ ’ |
| 19 | He flew down to Karachi on April 27th and told them not to back Miss Bhutto 's call for fresh provincial elections . |
| 20 | Jesus told them not to weep for him but for themselves because the day would arrive when they would have enough troubles of their own . |
| 21 | The process of endorsing Notes and passing them on to pay for goods or services from business to business is still quite common . |
| 22 | We then drove them closer to town , where one of our men was readying the piles of clothes . |
| 23 | Shadow of what ? wrote Goldberg in the margin , cursing under his breath as his elbow dislodged the pile of typewritten sheets stacked on the desk beside the typewriter , tapping them back to neatness , wiping his brow with his sleeve , typing on . |
| 24 | you want to talk them back to safety ; |
| 25 | She had given up work to have the children and she 'd seen them through to school age , when she 'd gone out and found herself another job . |
| 26 | Yeah , because they put them through to crime prevention department , |
| 27 | No , but I mean there are other such reasons I mean there may be initially choosing clothes or something like that , but when I put them on in the morning I usually put them on to suit the weather and what 's clean and what I 've got tights to match . |
| 28 | So I can send them back to HQ . |
| 29 | However , the handover of powers brought the institutions that had evolved from the old workhouses into the hands of authorities that could more effectively bring them up to date . |
| 30 | No , Chief has n't set any questions , erm , the other change to this has been to remove the fire 's special interest and we 've put in as a separate paper , so that we can bring them up to date . |