Example sentences of "[to-vb] them [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Switch on and move the appropriate levers on the banks of controllers , and the children come running out of the house , little pink-cheeked creatures half an inch high , who turn to wave at Felicity as she comes out on the terrace to see them off to school . |
| 2 | Indeed any attempt to relate them prematurely to reality may restrict the development of the model . |
| 3 | To air clothes when there is no airing cupboard is not only a chore , but an expensive one , while to fail to air all the unworn clothes is frequently to write them off to mildew . |
| 4 | you want to talk them back to safety ; |
| 5 | The rowing boat near the weir — only this time they had gone too far and Uncle Albert was not strong enough to row them back to safety ; the study at Uncle Albert 's house looking warm and friendly and inviting ; the professor beetle shouting rude instructions at some little beetles that had got into difficulty ; again a glimpse of her uncle 's study ; then a turnstile — one of those that only turn one way , so once you have passed through it you ca n't get back ; playful light beams now shrieking with fear as they hurtle past the window to their destruction ; walking up the down-escalator and not being able to get anywhere ; yet another brief snatch of the study … |
| 6 | But the story of the Gesta did not end in 1109. just as later monks came back to the Flemish comital genealogies to keep them up to date and to add new material , so the Gesta attracted amplification . |
| 7 | and they have to keep them up to date . |
| 8 | He in turn contacted Searle 's agent Rachel Calder at the Tessa Sayle agency ( the lengths we will go to satisfy a reader 's enquiry ) , who confirms that Searle indeed often rewrites his captions , ‘ to keep them up to date ’ . |
| 9 | In return , the ABT runs courses for full- and part-time teachers to keep them up to date with developments in banking education . |
| 10 | Not all class members can attend rallies etc , they , and the Society , depend on you to keep them up to date with the latest stock . |
| 11 | ‘ I would like to make a record so we 're putting together some tapes this month and we hope to send them off to recording companies and agents to see if we can get a contract . |
| 12 | Harry looked round desperately for the O'Hanlons to assist him , but the O'Hanlons had fainted at the very outset and had been dragged clear by Ram , who was now trying to fan them back to consciousness with a copy of the Illustrated London News . |
| 13 | They also insisted that they would blow up the mines if Ceauşescu tried to force them back to work . |
| 14 | For such particles , tachyons , infinite energy would be required to slow them down to light-speed . |
| 15 | ‘ The really tragic thing is that the longer people are unemployed the harder it is to get them back to work . |
| 16 | Then they follow him obediently , relyin' on his knowledge and experience to get them back to safety . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ If I was to praise the girls in the post office , being Irish they would have to cut them down to size , ’ Moran argued . |
| 18 | It was in a desperate attempt to woo them back to work two years ago that Spencer 's established its nursery . |
| 19 | ‘ We aim to bring them up to date . ’ |
| 20 | He was interested in the concept of the plays and thought he would like to bring them up to date , use original scripts and perform them on the move . |
| 21 | These were broadly based on the recommendations of the 1976 Stevens Committee Report on Planning Control over Mineral Workings , which proposed that mineral permissions should be reviewed periodically and modified , where necessary , to bring them up to date . |
| 22 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 23 | DNA from the blood of dinosaurs is supposedly used to bring them back to life . |