Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] they to the " in BNC.

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1 If a potential investor should assume that ‘ preference ’ means that he should prefer them to the ordinary shares he would be sorely in need of professional advice .
2 Perhaps we should send them to the client on all
3 INSTEAD of destroying their bumper crop of potatoes , farmers should give them to the needy .
4 The 1919 Murray 's Handbook asked in a revealing suggestion that travellers should watch out for instances when third-class passengers were not treated considerately and should report them to the management .
5 But … if they 're family heirlooms then however much I want them , I must return them to the family where they belong , ’ she said dazedly .
6 The draftsman should , nevertheless , be aware of some of the practical problems that arise in connection with the choice of tenancy to be granted and in appropriate cases should draw them to the attention of his client .
7 We should develop them to the full .
8 We would strongly recommend that if your scales are unreliable you should banish them to the bin and invest in some new ones .
9 If they are predominantly female , and 83 per cent of part-timers are , the equal pay legislation may entitle them to the same benefits and conditions as their full-time colleagues .
10 They identify people who need counselling help and may refer them to the priest or minister ; they recognize their own rituals as important aids to grieving .
11 I 'll give them to the dogs .
12 So I says What we can do is I 'll do an hour for you , we 'll move the piano and other bits , bicycles in this case that he had , we 'll shift them to the house close by , drop two men off , and one man 'll come and do the remainder of the work .
13 Some of these were to be offered as votives in the temple 's sanctuaries : others entered a trading network which might take them to the farthest ends of the island or overseas .
14 He 'll take them to the top of the stairs and make sure they know when to go on — usually by the gracious means of a prod in the back .
15 Well it 'll take 'em to the station .
16 Yeah , well we will do once we 'll get them to the height we want we 'll start trimming them and they 'll bush out a bit more , that 's not bad they 're about four , four or five foot now are n't they ?
17 The treatment can offset some effects of menopause , including brittle bone disease — osteoporosis — but the study reveals that the wrong kind of HRT could expose them to the risk of womb cancer .
18 Now , the reason we particularly were interested in this was that from the questionnaire we already were beginning to get back some information , and we discovered that eighty-six percent of people had seen their G P in the previous year , and maybe if we could introduce them to the age-well project at some point during that contact , we would be able to achieve something .
19 You could drag them to the pitch but you could n't make them perform .
20 The officer said she believed she could link them to the offence .
21 AN anonymous phone call to police could lead them to the mother of the newborn baby boy abandoned on a golf course .
22 The court heard that Jones scoured the Penrhys estate after the burglary and took his friends to Mr Penrose 's house because he believed he could lead them to the culprits .
23 By the time Roger had recorded from sixteen birds , he told me he thought he could detect regular differences between them so large that he could assign them to the two groups even without being given the code .
24 And if we 've got the project quality plan right there should n't be any problems or queries and it did remind me of this Australian er project manager , who I 've mentioned to one or two other people over lunch , who used to sit in a great , a great office , running multimillion pounds ' project and when people came in to complain to him , he used to refer them to the plaque on the wall which said R T F C.
25 And erm my mother used to bake , and we used to take the clothes basket with the tins of dough ready prepared by your mother and we used to take them to the bakehouse at lunchtime , when we were coming back from our from our meal , the midday meal from home , leave them at the bakehouse and so the baker had finished his morning 's baking with his oven of his own bread you see .
26 She was about to ask him why the party had been using the OBEX pool when , as if he could read her thoughts , he said , ‘ I used to take them to the public swimming-pool in town , but it gets so crowded that some of them used to get frightened .
27 but we used to take them to the pictures on Saturday afternoon my mum used to give me nine pence
28 This course of action would expose them to the prospect of mounting fines and eventual seizure of assets .
29 ITALY , Scotland 's World Cup rivals , must make do without gifted Juventus playmaker Roberto Baggio today when they seek a victory over Malta which would lift them to the top of the qualifying Group I.
30 And I shall write my songs and carry them in a pack and I shall recite them to the people , and sing them too , and I shall tell stories , and the little children shall gather around me , the while himself is in the temple . ’
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