Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] they to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mortgage company had acted with forbearance , only taking them to court as a last resort . |
| 2 | The real mystery about his story is not why two wives refused to make love to him , but how he stopped talking about himself long enough to invite them to bed in the first place . |
| 3 | In a flash of inspiration , they replaced the oil with mashed bananas , which lubricated the engine just long enough to get them to civilisation . |
| 4 | They remained fearful of the opening of any loophole that would more easily expose them to fraud or abuse of the credit they had extended in good faith . |
| 5 | Lucky Langdon , who is not normally a cautious person , believes this is unlikely , given the current opinion poll rating , and that the best bet wold be the Conservatives winning the most seats , but without an overall majority — thus returning them to power as a minority government . |
| 6 | I think people should try and help women , not just send them to prison . |
| 7 | However , the company 's far greater resources of baksheesh soon restored them to liberty . |
| 8 | ‘ It was partly wanting to say to my children that on one day a week I could always take them to school . |
| 9 | Their anomalous position illustrates the danger of reading back ( even into the 1950s , let alone the 1930s ) the more precisely defined contemporary categories , and eventually exposed them to abolition . |
| 10 | Some vegetables , like beetroot , carrot , endive and winter lettuce varieties , should be sown now , but covered with cloches later to protect them to maturity . |
| 11 | His ideas of management ( which had involved business lunches , a Rolls with expensive chauffeur , and a succession of pretty secretaries ) , had nearly brought them to bankruptcy . |
| 12 | Suppose she thought she could probably get them to school , but ca n't bring them home . |
| 13 | Just sort of you could reasonable expect them to baby sit two or three times you know . |
| 14 | Do you know , not a single rotten member of my miserable household appeared to be in the least little bit aware of the joyful nature of the dawn which I gaily urged them to acclaim . |
| 15 | There were many complaints that cattle infested roadsides , and their search for food often took them to rice fields and gardens . |
| 16 | Their father sometimes baths them , often puts them to bed , irons , sews on his buttons and makes cakes , but as far as the kids are concerned , the main thing about Daddy is that he goes off to work in that magical place known as The Office . |
| 17 | First , because the Barclays ( Asia ) allegations are so old — and so unnecessarily old — that it would be an abuse of process now to bring them to trial . |
| 18 | That leaves obvious questions about why exactly this illuminates decisions by finite human agents in worlds full of ‘ friction ’ , but we would rather leave them to Chapter 6 , where Game Theory will be found illuminating for thinking about international relations in an ideal-typical way . |
| 19 | For parents , it is only too long a period of encumbrance and handicap during which they are saddled with young who demand continual feeding , who reduce their freedom and regularly expose them to danger . |
| 20 | Shallow or superficial learning — like learning a name , address and telephone number that you promptly forget unless you write them down or consciously commit them to memory or use them habitually . |
| 21 | This would reinforce their belief in the need to help the latter group of newspapers rather than simply leaving them to market forces . |
| 22 | The style and tone of this appendix are quite astonishing ; fortunately , readers of this book and of Early music will be aware that for one writer to read another 's work insufficiently carefully to understand it , to attribute to him ideas he does not hold , and then to subject them to sarcasm and ridicule is no way to conduct academic debate , and about these four pages the present writer — the recipient of this attention — needs say no more . |
| 23 | Fortunately , many of these loopholes are now being closed by new amendments and , hopefully , there will be less frustration for the law-enforcers who , in the past , have seen many villains slip through the net after they have worked hard to bring them to justice . |
| 24 | So he is now in a position he can either take them to court or he 's forgetting it . |
| 25 | Pearl 's transfers by Attwell , Wells and Haynes have safely committed them to CD . |
| 26 | The university 's smart answer has been to withhold their degrees , but a law student is currently taking them to court , claiming violation of his rights . |