Example sentences of "them [verb] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | East Germany had agreed to give them papers allowing them to go to the country of their choice , and they were expected to leave Poland ‘ in the very near future ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Team Toyota Europe want them to go to the Safari and they ca n't put off a decision much longer . |
| 3 | You can compel them to go to the polling station and even to put an official election slip into the ballot box but that slip could be blank or spoiled , so what would be achieved ? |
| 4 | Night waking Some professionals suggest that parents should wake their children at certain times during the night to get them to go to the lavatory . |
| 5 | The three of them rode to the bank of the river , dismounted , then slipped quickly through the underbrush . |
| 6 | In a pond the temperature variations which occur from day to night will affect the buoyancy of the fish 's swimbladders , causing them to float to the water surface or sink to the bottom . |
| 7 | If you choose one of these kinds of carpets they should be laid on the paper to stop them sticking to the floor . |
| 8 | The granaries were completed and provided with an imposing portico fronting the street ; an imperial dedication jointly to Septimius Severus , Caracalla and Geta from one of them refers to the construction by an unknown legionary vexillation during the governorship of Alfenus Senecio . |
| 9 | However , now was not the time to probe into his previous daydreams , and before anything further could be said a shout came from Matt , who had left them to attend to the fire burning beneath the two billies of water which hung from an iron bar . |
| 10 | It is puzzling why the C&G 's managing director Andrew Longhurst feels he needs to pay Guardian members 4 per cent of their balances to get them to agree to the merger . |
| 11 | Warranties ‘ are other obligations which , though they must be performed , are not so vital that a failure to perform them goes to the substance of the contract . ’ |
| 12 | It is believed the platform of the hoist toppled over the first floor balcony sending them crashing to the ground floor . |
| 13 | Leith still had n't got herself back together again when the five of them moved to the dining-room . |
| 14 | When releasing barn owls that have been in captivity for a long time , we keep them confined to the barn until we 're sure that they are going to adapt happily to their new surrounding . ( ) |
| 15 | I well remember , for example , friends numbered among Professor ( now Sir ) James Baddiley 's cohorts , all of them bent to the task of unscrambling the structures of different chunks of bacterial cell wall . |
| 16 | Fred joined them and urged them to come to the cemetery in the funeral cars . |
| 17 | We fought for them to come to the Assembly , where they could speak their minds and meet the Africans they never meet , and together listen to the Almighty Who might know better even than they what is best for the country . |
| 18 | On the Sunday following the manor fire , as Tom , Seb , Dolly and Carrie left Swinbrook chapel after the morning service , Christian asked them to come to the farmhouse . |
| 19 | Subsection ( 1 ) empowers the Bank by notice in writing served on an authorised institution to require them to provide to the Bank such information as the Bank may reasonably require for the performance of its functions under the Act . |
| 20 | He has also earned the respect of the players who know that Nigel can hold the key to them returning to the side quickly . |
| 21 | He jumped up , pulling the lower branches of the tree down and clipped off stems , letting them fall to the ground . |
| 22 | As he turned to close the door of the tower behind them , she let them fall to the ground again . |
| 23 | He could have sat down with only one of them and achieved the same guidance on weight and machining capability , but three of them came to the meeting , which he thought typical of engineers . |
| 24 | I urged them to listen to the voice of their individual conscience . |
| 25 | ‘ These are almost all the people who are here , except for a few who could n't walk , but I 'm having them moved to the ward nearest here . ’ |
| 26 | Cliff , the concrete contractor , and Tessa , the schoolteacher , were flipped off the paddle boat in a suck hole and held underwater by the boiling currents for a few seconds before their life-jackets brought them spluttering to the surface . |
| 27 | Erm things you would and you would n't want them connected to the mains , stuck in your mouth . |
| 28 | ‘ What do you know best ? ’ she asked , slipping her arm round Beth 's slim waist as the two of them sauntered to the door . |
| 29 | ‘ A ’ level entrants to the financial services industry are able to take advantage of the Pre-Associateship Route , introduced in 1991 , which enables them to progress to the Associateship examinations after completing a foundation programme of four Banking Certificate subjects : |
| 30 | The fact that goods have not been paid for does not prevent ownership in them passing to the purchaser unless , of course , they are subject to a properly communicated and valid retention clause . |