Example sentences of "[vb past] them [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , she was conscious of good fortune in having at last got a council flat in Southwark , and in having good neighbours in the flat across the landing who saw that her children — a boy of nine and a girl of seven — ate their breakfast , and got them off to school .
2 By February 1916 pressure was mounting again , and resolutions calling for compulsory national service were flowing in ; the Executive refused to debate them , but passed them on to Law nevertheless .
3 He flew down to Karachi on April 27th and told them not to back Miss Bhutto 's call for fresh provincial elections .
4 Jesus told them not to weep for him but for themselves because the day would arrive when they would have enough troubles of their own .
5 We then drove them closer to town , where one of our men was readying the piles of clothes .
6 He ordered them out to execution on the instant , and it was done .
7 The coach trundled briskly past , browning everyone with dust ; the deerhounds checked and growled thunderously at the town dogs until James Flemyng called them loudly to heel .
8 It would have been far better if he 'd done it the other way around — the rest of the set acoustic and then brought them on to play .
9 The field ambulance minibus ran the boys down into town , and brought them back to camp in hourly shuttles until 0300 hours .
10 The illegal payments scandal brought them down to earth with a bump and down into the 3rd division .
11 These , at least until recently , hardly kept them up to date at all with stock market developments .
12 He sent on Dublin and Mick Norbury and , within 30 seconds of the restart , they combined to give Cambridge the victory which , after four successive draws , took them back to second in the table .
13 I took them down to Paradise Park for sexing .
14 They , too , had taken to helping in the hospital and Miriam could read on their pale , shocked faces some of the terrible sights they had seen ; after a little while she sent them away to bed .
15 Every station sent in the reports in code and we collected them and sent them on to Bomber Command Headquarters .
16 He put them back to work .
17 We managed to save three with Maureen Edwards 's help and between us we nursed them back to health .
18 We left them there to season , we did n't bother .
19 In the kitchen the fire was burning low but there was light enough to see the steam rising from the bedclothes as they held them out to air .
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