Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even saying that , if they doubled it to two hundred pounds , it 's a lot of years before we reach four thousand pounds . |
| 2 | Since the works ( de Kooning apart ) were abstract they lent themselves to diverse interpretations . |
| 3 | starting with the right material , the A&R staff try to encourage artists to write commercially and they introduce them to good studios , engineers , producers and other musicians . ’ |
| 4 | No , the council 's took it over , they sold it to this bloke . |
| 5 | They attach themselves to executable files and are able to load themselves every time the infected file is loaded . |
| 6 | And it depends on what they want if they want it to three decimal places with this |
| 7 | 4 One problem with many passages in Eliot 's plays is that they send us to similar but stronger passages in the poetry . |
| 8 | They described themselves to each other as being virtuous even , and certainly industrious . |
| 9 | They committed themselves to simple pro-rata savings rather than a re-ordering of priorities , reflecting the changing demand for the education and social services . |
| 10 | When did they bring you to this prison ? ’ |
| 11 | before they transferred him to another prison . |
| 12 | The pubs had begun hiring marquees to contain their overflow and they put them to good use by putting on entertainment — a disco , a barn dance or jazz music — on the Friday and Saturday evenings . |
| 13 | They subjected her to verbal abuse . |
| 14 | If they extend it to seven they will deserve automatic promotion . |
| 15 | They take the infantile mewing and they modify it to each situation in which they wish to express a need for something . |
| 16 | The Fabians inherited both the positive scientific spirit and a conception that progress follows natural laws from the evolutionists , but they adapted it to French sociological positivism based on the principle of social solidarity . |
| 17 | They owed something to European social democracy , including the French experience of planning , and something to the planning experience of other parts of the developing world , notably India . |
| 18 | The Mitchells were granted permission to burn charcoal from coppiced timber at Hangman 's Wood if they returned it to this state of management . |
| 19 | They pass it to other managers or other parts of the organization who may have a suitable vacancy for you . |
| 20 | But for some strange reason , and I do n't know whether they direct it to Christian the last shot of the film , almost unnoticeable because the credits were going up she went back into church and it was a communion service and all you saw was her receiving the bread and passing the plate and the plate was to the young black lad on the farm and you thought , he 's come back ! |
| 21 | They entitle you to two free weekends ' accommodation for two in over 180 superb British hotels , at a wide range of holiday destinations , from picturesque Devon to the rugged Scottish Highlands . |
| 22 | They took him to that private clinic , the one in the hills . |
| 23 | they always seemed backward , they found that they took them to different specialist and the truth is , they 've both left school now and got jobs , but they were er , dyslexia |
| 24 | They took me to Lochleven Castle , and put me in a room like a prison . |
| 25 | Though literary festivals could be immensely enjoyable , especially if they took you to some pleasant distant city , like Toronto or Adelaide , there was something absurd about writers gathering together in this way . |
| 26 | They sent him to proper schools — the first royal child not to have been educated by private tutors — but he was never just another pupil ; he was never allowed to forget the accident of birth that set him apart . |
| 27 | This is the daft nuns they sent you to all them years ago and your head ‘ s still full of the rubbish they crammed into you . |
| 28 | To be on the safe side , they sent it to several countries . |
| 29 | ‘ And they reccommend me to other people . |
| 30 | Any farm worker could easily anticipate the consequences of ‘ going against ’ the local farmers , so for the most part they resigned themselves to this situation , bit their tongues rather than spoke out and developed what is by now their notorious taciturnity and ability to ‘ keep themselves to themselves ’ . |