Example sentences of "and [vb -s] them to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the different sense of the priest ‘ representing ’ the people to God in worship the role is more that of an intermediary or go-between — a role more akin to that of a Member of Parliament who understands the needs of his constituents and represents them to the Government in Parliament . |
| 2 | Doody notes that Leapor picks up Swift 's characters or anti-characters and turns them to her own purposes . |
| 3 | An interesting aspect of any ‘ counter-revolution ’ is that it takes the terms of the ‘ revolution ’ and turns them to its own purposes . |
| 4 | The mind puts together certain things and deems them to be of the same kind . |
| 5 | To undertake strategic research , which takes the new ideas coming out of basic research and develops them to the point where the possibility of commercial application can be identified . |
| 6 | For instance , it softens the shells of crayfish , and exposes them to disease . |
| 7 | So the novel frees Stavrogin from ‘ to be or not to be ’ and all other trammels of the notebooks , and transfers them to Kirillov . |
| 8 | The case manager passes the reports to the lawyer who completes them and passes them to a supervisor . |
| 9 | Fred Tomacelli , who was in the notorious ‘ Fever ’ show at Exit Art some months ago , makes abstract paintings using over-the-counter drugs as materials ( at the new Jack Tilton space on Greene Street , all this month ) , while Peter Hopkins ( at American Fine Arts from 15 May to 5 June ) soaks fabrics in ‘ effluents ’ ( ‘ the outflow of a sewer ’ , according to Webster 's ) and glues them to canvas in an effort to re-think earth art . |
| 10 | The teacher , still in role as Warden , shows them around , and entertains them to tea . |
| 11 | Since this brings out what they have in common and shows them to be on the same side , we too shall use ‘ Positivism ’ to include the Realist approach . |
| 12 | It is the Spirit who takes the things of God and reveals them to us ( 1 Cor. 2:12 ) , and Paul can rightly say that the very capacity to respond in faith is a gift of God and no man-made attribute of which we can boast ( Eph. 2:8 ) . |
| 13 | The Centre is a joint venture between the Livingston Development Corp , a government-funded body set up in 1962 to develop new towns — this organisation provides Centre users with in-house advice on marketing and introduces them to the local information technology and software community ; Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise Ltd , a local enterprise company that provides training , commercial validation of business plans and advice on possible avenues to funding , such as venture capital ; and the Scottish Enterprise Software Group , which offers technical and product evaluation . |
| 14 | The second person carries the stakes and hands them to the third , unpointed ends first , who then pushes them into the ground and fastens the top line to the net with a half-hitch . |
| 15 | ‘ The chief cipher clerk , Walter Peckle , decodes them and hands them to the ambassador . ’ |
| 16 | The weekly UK journal " Marketing " noted that " computer power … takes larger , geographically organised databases , of which published Census statistics are the most important , and links them to other sets of marketing information , intelligence and research data . |
| 17 | This form of prayer , then , gathers up all our experiences and takes them to the King of Kings , and we think about them in his presence — all the hurts , all the joys , all that stops us becoming the kind of persons we feel called to be . |
| 18 | She buys them and takes them to and all |
| 19 | A network of volunteers collects wounded birds around the country and delivers them to Aegina at the collectors ' expense . |
| 20 | A security carrier , contracted to the retailer , visits the stores each morning to collect the cash takings , which have been packaged in standard bank packets before despatch , and delivers them to Midland 's local Cash Centres . |
| 21 | Together with the cash , the security carrier collects cheques and delivers them to Midland 's local DSC for immediate processing . |
| 22 | If A then sells and delivers them to an innocent purchaser , the latter will acquire good title . |
| 23 | Colas sees them there and ties them to his own crook . |
| 24 | He takes poststructuralist assumptions about the death of the author and the disappearance of the self-subsistent ego , and applies them to the history of English poetry , in a work which combines ingenious close reading , impressive knowledge of metre , and an overall argument of stratospheric thinness and remoteness . |
| 25 | In particular , it attempts to assess how rational decision-makers will act in certain situations : ‘ It takes the tools of economics and applies them to the material of politics . |
| 26 | Monde de L'Art welcomes four artists from Senegal : Amadou cloaks the everyday in the light of legend , applying considerable sophistication to the use of voids and subtle colouring ; Souleymane Keita paints abstract scenes influenced by local mythology and European stylistic developments ; the sculptor Ousmane Sow looks to Rodin , Bourdelle and Giacometti but employs local colours and rhythms ; Serigne Mbaye Camara carves geometric forms and applies them to two-colour backgrounds . |
| 27 | Systems theory borrows ideas from the physical sciences and economics and applies them to organisations . |
| 28 | Although a human geographer who has specialized in the analysis of urban systems particularly using entropy-maximizing models , in this book he recognizes three types of system and applies them to both physical and human geography . |
| 29 | The fifth band affects a dowser 's balance and throws them to one side : it is strongest at new and full moon . |
| 30 | Drinks its roots and breathes them to nothing . |