Example sentences of "them [verb] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having reached the last four of the Tennents Scottish Cup , it is not beyond them to go on to beat Aberdeen or Clydebank at Tynecastle next month and pursue a piece of silverware that has not been seen in the boardroom at Easter Road since the turn of the century . |
| 2 | But Grace would n't need them to go out to sea on the ebb tide . |
| 3 | Those are rocks and you are sitting on them gazing out to sea . |
| 4 | Maginnis sidesteps a question about whether the SDLP was interested in an internal settlement — ‘ We talk to other members of the SDLP and find them looking forward to participation . |
| 5 | Yeah , but basically from , from that programme all , all the er , you can see all the resources were really being used all week and , but I had a problem when we came to do the bedrooms that er , you can there , we ran out of work for the decorators to do er removing this thing , once you 've removed and then I managed to squeeze in , but where the second decorator 's erm up to room twenty-three but rather than erm have just one gang than , and not , not using as many as the resources as we possibly could I let them gave the second gang a few rooms that they could actually squeeze in without interrupting I 've let them do up to room twenty-three and then and then basically the carpenting and they have to come in after everybody else has done what they Monday morning basically we just decided that we really needed more resources the earlier sequence of events to , to get so we were getting to so whether we 've been given |
| 6 | The Huddlestons of Millom were active on Gloucester 's behalf throughout Cumbria , but their own land led them to look rather to north Lancashire , where they had dealings with the Harringtons . |
| 7 | The Huddlestons of Millom were active on Gloucester 's behalf throughout Cumbria , but their own land led them to look rather to north Lancashire , where they had dealings with the Harringtons . |
| 8 | We had to keep them heading out to sea as long as possible , so that we could fully clear it on our return tack . |
| 9 | Taking the nine sources together , they scored best on informing electors about the issues ( 5.7 ) , slightly less well on informing them about personalities ( 5.4 ) , and Very much worse on helping them decide how to Vote ( 4.1 ) . |
| 10 | Their degree of preference for one party Over others had an important influence upon the usefulness-ratings they gave the media for helping them decide how to Vote ( those with clear preferences found the media less useful for that purpose ) but had little or no influence on other aspects of usefulness-ratings . |
| 11 | After seeing the lovers return to the house , he listened with an ear to the wall until he heard them getting down to bedtime matters and then , in the words of firework manufacturers , lit the blue touch paper and retired . |
| 12 | That evening the three of them went out to dinner , and they got on . |
| 13 | After the second house the two of them went out to supper . |
| 14 | Many firms of estate agents are also surveyors , and it 's important to them to get on to building society panels to enjoy a good flow of valuation work . |
| 15 | Let them dangle on to floor . |
| 16 | It 's also put together a rescue strategy for the 40 or so licencees of the former MIPS Computer Systems Inc Risc/OS which will allow them to migrate over to Unix SVR4 : the MIPS operating system is being retired by MIPS ' new parent , Silicon Graphics Inc . |