Example sentences of "they [vb base] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The military skills and superior armaments of the two knights allow them to fight off their attackers and they gain admittance to the castle . |
| 2 | Their aim is to explore and describe the internal social systems that govern behaviour in these communities , and of course they gain access to these systems through studying overt behaviour in the communities . |
| 3 | They lack commitment to the service , and they do not use it . |
| 4 | They bring respectability to industry in the eyes of young people and allow them to see that work can be rewarding , interesting and challenging . |
| 5 | These rules are very important , because they bring consistency to the interpretation of leases and enable parties buying and selling leases and reversions to obtain more reliable advice on what their rights and liabilities are likely to be . |
| 6 | Although , claiming that they bring attention to their own historicity , New Historicists are reluctant to map out what that historicity is . |
| 7 | But also , it is not exactly that they bring sexuality to politics ( it was always already there ) ; rather deviant desire brings with it a different kind of political knowledge , and hence inflects both desire and politics differently . |
| 8 | They sell airtime to ‘ service providers ’ , which then sell phones and supply subscribers through a retailer . |
| 9 | Like fishermen and others who work in cold conditions , they develop tolerance to cold in hands and faces , possibly a function of enhanced blood circulation in exposed areas of the body . |
| 10 | Taken together , people 's answers to these three questions indicate that they judge HP to be the most costly common form of credit , and that they judge credit cards , store accounts and check trading to be relatively cheap — with the important qualification that ( presumably taking quality of goods into account ) mail order and check trading , though not expensive , are often thought likely to give poor value for money . |
| 11 | If they make sense to you , well and good . |
| 12 | They make sense to the children and they permit them to make sense of their world . |
| 13 | The jobs they can do are limited , and they arc thought to bc less intelligent and more easily pleased . |
| 14 | It seems to arouse expectations they ca n't meet , it makes demands on their freedom , they want life to be simpler . |
| 15 | They want access to Thailand 's 11 million smokers and they 're fighting with all the muscle available to them , according to Prakit Vateesatokit , of the Thai Anti-Smoking Campaign . |
| 16 | Significantly , the greeting trill is normally done when they are on the move , usually when they have come in from outside and are about to move off towards the place where they expect food to be waiting . |
| 17 | She said : ’ They provide help to those who are unable always to go shopping on weekdays and Saturdays . |
| 18 | They provide assistance to firms in raising new capital through the issue of new shares . |
| 19 | These areas continue to constitute the best option for lower-paid workers , not just because of the relatively low cost of the housing but also because they provide access to a large pool of appropriate jobs both in the central area and in the suburbs thanks to the essentially radial pattern of public transport facilities . |
| 20 | They are polytheistic in that they seem to believe that many gods exist , but monotheistic in that they command obedience to only one of these many gods . |
| 21 | The winter sales may be coming to an end … but Gloucester 's rugby men are still looking for a few late bargains when they head north to Sale this weekend . |
| 22 | They fly north to Canada in the summer , and back here for the winter . |
| 23 | They say goodbye to wives who wear curlers , and they ride off on bikes with their scarves trailing behind like pennants . |
| 24 | They say improvement to that and the existing road bridge would remove the need for a new one altogether |
| 25 | They say hallo to Ida , sit down , and light their cigarettes . |
| 26 | They cause damage to the vessel lining , which then creates a tendency for blood clots or emboli to develop . |
| 27 | Others seek refuge in the argument that theft , fraud , dishonesty , and insider dealing are moral wrongs because they cause harm to others . |
| 28 | Generation upon unnamed generations of writers have revelled in this fact : they put pen to paper , do the literary equivalent of the ‘ Wham Rap ’ , and get endlessly celebrated by the media . |
| 29 | They prevent contamination to the hands and so reduce the risk of contact diseases . |
| 30 | When he and Poins scatter Falstaff and his robber band they speak verse to each other at the end of the scene ( II.ii.104ff. ) , and as soon as Falstaff has gone into hiding Hal addresses the Sheriff searching for him in verse ( II.iv.506 ) . |