Example sentences of "[verb] them to [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doody notes that Leapor picks up Swift 's characters or anti-characters and turns them to her own purposes . |
| 2 | An interesting aspect of any ‘ counter-revolution ’ is that it takes the terms of the ‘ revolution ’ and turns them to its own purposes . |
| 3 | It has this name because it enables you to alter the order of slides — you just drag them to their required positions . |
| 4 | Deficiencies are there but you can counteract them to your personal advantage . |
| 5 | In 1986 he took over the captaincy from Fletcher and led them to their third championship in four years , but early in 1987 he suffered a bad loss of form and the team slipped right down the table . |
| 6 | Toolbars are also customizable ; you can construct your own by dragging tools from existing bars and attaching them to your own . |
| 7 | Are you using them to their best advantage ? |
| 8 | Once the laws are introduced , the coaches and the players will try to devise means of using them to their own advantage . |
| 9 | Even in the half-tones of night she could see the narrowing of those dangerous sapphire eyes , see sparks of desire bringing them to their full colour . |
| 10 | Some boy give me a single red rose and I 'd say , What you done with the other four , given them to your other girls ? |
| 11 | He 's given them to us that 's why ! |
| 12 | Such rituals and procedures are designed to restore them to their proper place within the people of God and within the inner circle of his blessing . |
| 13 | Including part-time workers , the LPU said almost 10million people were low paid and pay rises of 25.8 per cent would be needed to restore them to their relative position in 1979 . |
| 14 | The BACKUP and RESTORE programs are opposite to each other , one will backup your programs to floppy disks and the other allows you to restore them to your hard drive . |
| 15 | Though perhaps not quite so avidly sought after as its Pirelli or even Ilford counterpart , these nonetheless prove to be extremely popular with local folk who send them to their far-flung nearest and dearest . |
| 16 | He greatly influenced modern methods of excavation : he deliberately studied Pitt-Rivers ' methods and modified them to his own ideas . |
| 17 | Second , to better understand such ideas as ‘ press freedom ’ , one needs to relate them to their original context . |
| 18 | Feeling slightly vexed I decided that all those readers too lazy to write in will be receiving personal visits , so I can introduce them to my favourite topic : ‘ Pain , and how ( and where ! ) to inflict it ’ . |
| 19 | Several different facts about cuckoos fit them to their parasitic way of life . |
| 20 | Mrs Linley , 36 , said : ‘ The only time they can go out is if I am around to escort them to our front garden . ’ |
| 21 | He also took government subsidies for agriculture , applying them to his catch-cropping enterprise . |
| 22 | Jessamy had known straight away that nothing would ever throw her off balance , that she would deal with life 's disasters and crises in a calm , dispassionate way , finally resolving them to her own satisfaction . |
| 23 | ‘ I was angry ! ’ he admitted , thrusting his hands into the pockets of his trousers as he studied her , his eyes traversing her slender form , raking over the tangle of dark hair , her susceptible grey eyes , her full , sensual mouth , before lowering them in slow appraisal of her trim figure then returning them to her querulous expression . |
| 24 | You can derive an enormous amount of satisfaction from restoring old frames and returning them to their former glory , and it is astonishing the number of attractive frames that are discarded when someone changes the colour scheme of their home or sorts through their attic and throws out something that is battered but still beautiful . |
| 25 | It was , in fact , the professional warrener , the man who became each estate 's killing machine , who perfected the various sporting methods that exist today and who honed them to their maximum effectiveness . |
| 26 | In practice this often meant that immature minds would take over Leavis 's own evaluations without relating them to their own experience of literature , resulting in the diffusion of callow or inept judgements that has been condemned from the right by C. S. Lewis and from the left by Catherine Belsey . |
| 27 | It does , however , test the arguments being put in this paper , by pushing them to their logical conclusion : that the preferred level of preventive work will vary according to the model of welfare espoused . |
| 28 | Regretfully , I consigned them to my personal museum of surfing memorabilia along with my Coogee Beach swallow-tail radical intermediate . |
| 29 | Surely you do n't send them to your male employees as well ? ’ |
| 30 | The mind of the human observer is endowed with creative imagination ; this allows the scientist not only to make discoveries about the laws of nature but to tamper with them and exploit them to his own advantage . |