Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pron] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when the Central Policy Review Staff ( the ‘ Think Tank ’ ) had suggested in the early eighties that they mount a full-scale investigation into the practices and abuses of the professions , they discovered that the influence of the lawyers upon Number 10 was so strong that the proposal was sat upon and then returned , with a suggestion they confine themselves to teachers and social workers . |
| 2 | A common result of this is that when the philosophers deny autonomy to women , they do so for the same sorts of reason that they deny it to children and cite lack of rationality , capriciousness and vulnerability among their characteristics . |
| 3 | Instead of stalks , they have a cluster of curling roots with which they attach themselves to coral or rocks . |
| 4 | If they send me to Rampton , what does that make me ? ’ ’ |
| 5 | Sent they send it to Elizabeth . |
| 6 | They persecute us , they crowd us out , they send us to Coventry , they sneer at us , they yawn at us , they blindfold themselves and stuff up their ears . |
| 7 | They let it to tenant farmers until the 1870s , when the Hubert Hutchings returned . |
| 8 | so he said they put her to bed and he said it was best Christmas they ever ! |
| 9 | I do shut them up at night because of the stoats and the foxes , but they put themselves to bed , I only have to shut the door . |
| 10 | So they put me to millinery . |
| 11 | He called a doctor and they put me to bed . |
| 12 | Deem gives the example of cuts in teacher training , which had the effect of reducing the opportunities that had previously been available to large numbers of girls who had been considered by their teachers to be , as they put it to Michelle Stanworth , ‘ not university material ’ . |
| 13 | As soon as they see their names on the leaderboard they worry themselves to death until their name 's gone off the board . |
| 14 | Used as an integral part of teaching they lend themselves to workshops and multi-media situations . |
| 15 | As early as Acts 6 we find the apostles seeking deputies to manage the administration Of the church , while they give themselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word . |
| 16 | And if they tell her to bed down in a flea-pit , that 's what she 'll do . |
| 17 | The most important differences are those to be found between individuals , rather than between groups or categories This seems to imply that the one thing Shetlanders have in common is that they Are All different from one another , and that their common identity as Shetlanders is something that emerges only when they contrast themselves to people from the south . |
| 18 | How are you going to find the right frequency before they blow us to pieces ? ’ |
| 19 | They drive me to distraction : at first I refuse to fight back , on the grounds that life is sacred and it is not their fault that they are mosquitos , but I eventually join in the swatting that punctuates the quiet every so often . |
| 20 | Others cash in by selling aircraft as soon as they get them to consortiums of banks and investors — and then lease them back . |
| 21 | " They get us to bed , " said the knitter . |
| 22 | They shackle themselves to racks , they bask in urinals . |
| 23 | This causes all sorts of complications , I mean if you erm if you qualify as a doctor in Texas er and you go to Massachusetts you have to go through another set of examinations before they allow you to practice medicine in Massachusetts because they do n't accept automatically Texas qualifications , they re regard the ri they retain the right to determine their own standards of procedures in these sorts of areas so their own criminal and civil codes as well as their own political structures so these are major matters . |
| 24 | In Ireland , even in high summer they say , never bet on mirages ; as you approach ever closer to those distant shimmering patches , they go on shimmering until they force you to detour around them — or get wet . |
| 25 | I 'm so glad you appreciate them , so few people do , they leave them to gardeners and such like , it 's such a pity , they 're so characterful — ’ |
| 26 | but they leave nothing to chance they 've even brought their own satellite to plot the weather … |
| 27 | They take them to museums ; they give them cars to drive around town ; they introduce them to everyone worth knowing in Texas . |
| 28 | This young guy has an automobile accident — they take him to hospital — his wife breaks down and cries . |
| 29 | ‘ They take it to heart and put a lot of effort into it . ’ |