Example sentences of "who [vb base] them to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have n't these candidates got the guts to face up to the voters who elect them to Parliament and spare us a few minutes of their time . |
| 2 | Though perhaps not quite so avidly sought after as its Pirelli or even Ilford counterpart , these nonetheless prove to be extremely popular with local folk who send them to their far-flung nearest and dearest . |
| 3 | There is no doubt at all that heads have the power , in managerial terms , to make such decisions ; but it would be a foolish head who put them to the governors without first winning staff support . |
| 4 | Its walls were almost covered by official posters urging all who read them to Dig For Victory , Save For Victory , Resist The Squanderbug , Join The Wrens And Free A Man For The Fleet and remember that Careless Talk Costs Lives and Walls Have Ears . |
| 5 | But it is undoubtedly dangerous and often cruel , stirring not so much the boxers but the crowds who watch them to a pitch of savagery quite incompatible with the notion that boxing is ‘ the noble art of self-defence ’ . |
| 6 | The queen spreads them over her body and they are licked off by the workers , who pass them to the rest of the colony by trophallaxis . |
| 7 | They may indeed be believed by those who operate them to be essentially progressive in character . |
| 8 | It would remind them that young men who carry knives and youngsters who take them to school may lose their temper and find that one stab is enough to kill a school mate or a police officer . |