Example sentences of "they [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lower them slowly to shoulder height . |
| 2 | The element of distortion and the handling of the space in these paintings relates them intimately to Cubism , although most Cubist painting is close , too , in feeling to the more constructive and austere portraits , still lifes and landscapes . |
| 3 | I 've brought out a pack of cards , but when you know you 've got them only to while away the hours , they are as exciting as a stack of washing up . |
| 4 | Indeed any attempt to relate them prematurely to reality may restrict the development of the model . |
| 5 | Sources close to the leggy catwalk queen , who signed a £1.2 million pop deal , say she has written a lot of lyrics and whoever matches them best to music will go into the studio with her . |
| 6 | We send them away to school — have to , living in the depths of the country . |
| 7 | They , too , had taken to helping in the hospital and Miriam could read on their pale , shocked faces some of the terrible sights they had seen ; after a little while she sent them away to bed . |
| 8 | His eye measured these impressive heights coolly , relating them always to sea level rather than to their own grandeur , and correcting Boswell 's exultation over ‘ another mountain I called immense : Johnson : ‘ No ; it is no more than a considerable protuberance . ’ ’ |
| 9 | Tonight she 's putting them early to bed , before tuning in to the American election . |
| 10 | Bring them home and tell them that you 're taking them home to air . |
| 11 | Ask them home to tea . |
| 12 | The Rewards and Punishments then , whereby we should keep children in order , are quite of another kind ; and of that force , that when we can get them once to work , the Business , I think , is done , and the Difficulty is over . |
| 13 | However , the success of the Inuit is based far more on dressing , housing and feeding themselves as well as possible , and avoiding risks that would expose them unduly to cold . |
| 14 | Musk oxen were formerly widespread across the low tundra , but hunting by man has now restricted them mainly to north Greenland and the Canadian far north . |
| 15 | The coach trundled briskly past , browning everyone with dust ; the deerhounds checked and growled thunderously at the town dogs until James Flemyng called them loudly to heel . |
| 16 | We left them there to season , we did n't bother . |
| 17 | Many are being refitted with the same smart new decor which will make them easier to spot on the high street . |
| 18 | It says it is impossible to new the ma , renew them again to repentance , since they again crucify to themselves the son of God and to put him to open shame . |
| 19 | Why else had he come up to Tucker 's for fags when he could have got them closer to home ? |
| 20 | We then drove them closer to town , where one of our men was readying the piles of clothes . |
| 21 | In the 14 previous games under his management , Coventry had drawn eight , five of them goalless , and another point would have edged them closer to safety . |