Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] they to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those peasants who continued to own draught animals had lent them to relief organizations at the height of the Famine , but by the spring of 1922 they refused to do this any longer , since they now found many profitable uses for them . |
| 2 | And I bought a couple but the kids have taken them to school . |
| 3 | It must have been heartbreaking for people who had been through sensational experiences to have to recount them to politely tepid audiences and to discover that their stories conformed to an orthodox pattern . |
| 4 | After he had slept in the same sheets for six months Nails had taken them to the launderette , and now he had discovered a few things like that , which helped , which was more than his dad ever had . |
| 5 | I pass by the ward where people are dying of AIDS ; these are the lucky ones — their families have brought them to hospital and they are being cared for . |
| 6 | Most of these also have children , and studies have shown them to number more than 100,000 in any single year . |
| 7 | The dates are significant , for they show that the spirit which ruled in the Italian city republics had noisy echoes in Germany and France — all over northern Europe indeed ; and that Italy and the northern communes were not so far apart as the northern monarchs and many modern historians have wished them to be . |
| 8 | Modern domestic pigs , incidentally , are pink and hairless and , until relatively recently , obese , because humans have bred them to be . |
| 9 | They deliberated , looked at the sun and then questioned the clerics , since the practice of the liturgy and the regular tolling of church bells had accustomed them to a more precise knowledge of the rhythm of the hours than the judges themselves possessed . |
| 10 | Even though he was dissatisfied with Aristotle 's teachings , Gassendi was required , as professor of philosophy , to expound them to his students , just as his own professors had expounded them to him . |
| 11 | Their one real clue from the Executive killings had led them to a small Ping Tiao cell in the Mids fifty li south of Bremen . |
| 12 | Inept leadership and disastrous hesitations had brought them to this . |
| 13 | Their social habits have fitted them to human society . |