Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He preferred outwork : " In a factory you confine them to the hours the master pleases , in the cottage they work very often 15 or 16 hours . " |
| 2 | waves push me to the side |
| 3 | The EC can neither reverse current trends nor bring them to a halt . |
| 4 | At one time , the officers if they saw the girls soliciting , used to arrest them , bring them to a police station , they 're finger print , photographed and dealt with . |
| 5 | Bring them to the forecourt . |
| 6 | It must have seemed to them that Marian and Allen had perished in the flames and their own immediate concern was to remove themselves from the danger of the roof falling in on their heads and from the certain consequence that so conspicuous a fire in the night would be seen by the outlaws and would sooner or later bring them to the scene . |
| 7 | Find Gilleis and Adam for me , and bring them to the chapel . |
| 8 | The plan was to rescue a coach load of Bosnian children from the fighting in the former Yugoslavia and bring them to the safety of England . |
| 9 | And on the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest , to the door of the tent of meeting . |
| 10 | ‘ The initial plan was to put companies together and bring them to the market . ’ |
| 11 | The four system units will be organised around products — mainframe computers , mid-range , self-service terminal systems and application software , and is intended significantly to cut the time it takes for products to get to market — the aim is to cut in half the time it takes to develop products and bring them to the market . |
| 12 | Sell them to the knackers yard . |
| 13 | go and take them to France and sell them to the French |
| 14 | When a large debt issue is undertaken , the Bank will underwrite a large proportion of the issue and slowly sell them to the market over a period of time to avoid excess supply of government debt . |
| 15 | I 've cut the ropes that bind me to the shore , she thought , and sinking down onto the arm of Meredith 's chair she listened , smiling , to one of the pirates confiding that when he was in town he consulted the same dentist as dear Johnny . |
| 16 | Raise them to a power , then you do multiply . |
| 17 | Add them when you 're multiplying , times them when you raise them to a power , so we do n't want to start changing this to one over and things , because we 'll lose that easy way of doing things . |
| 18 | Bob and I are progressing as a piano/clarsach duo , and of course some of the accompaniments to his songs tax me to the limit , or have to be vetoed altogether . |
| 19 | Our amendments would er restore democratic accountability for police authorities , they would remove the proposed concentration of power in the hands of the Home Secretary and I commend them to the Committee . |
| 20 | I commend them to the house . |
| 21 | ‘ Obey them to the letter and you will be well rewarded — any bungling or playing the fool and I doubt you 'll live to tell the tale ! ’ |
| 22 | The BTEC HND courses consistently and successfully attract students of a more practical than academic inclination , and develop them to the stage where their natural pragmatic talents have been enhanced with a rigorous regime of integrated business skills . |
| 23 | Connect them to the radio , especially Radio Four whose discussion programmes give the impression someone is having a conversation . |
| 24 | Thomas Buchanan had to hit them and push them to the top of the rock . |
| 25 | But Mr Oteng added : ‘ It is up to the media to try to dispel racist stereotypes , not push them to the forefront . |
| 26 | All the tunes mentioned so far were , so to speak , rescued from the hands of ‘ folk ’ song collectors and those of ‘ refined ’ parlour performers ; Corvan 's texts articulate them to the needs of his class , at a particular moment in its history . |
| 27 | Similarly , our modern managers bring on their favoured assistants , introduce them to the secrets of the filofax and the business lunch , and teach them how to influence important people . |
| 28 | They 'd be sorry for me , they 'd give me whisky and aspirins and send me to a psychiatrist . |
| 29 | Contributions are welcome , please send them to the Editor , John Donnelly . |
| 30 | When you have all four vouchers and the answers to the four questions , send them to the address that will be printed in the January issue . |