Example sentences of "had [verb] them to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment she could n't think what he meant , then she remembered with dismay that she 'd already asked him to join her and Elaine and a few of the island friends they 'd made on the new power-boat Stephen had treated them to as the hotel neared completion . |
| 2 | You were n't allowed to have a hearse , you had to carry them to the church , and er er we used to b bury them by lamp light . |
| 3 | The decision arose from a claim lodged with the ECJ by a group of mainly Spanish-owned fishing companies , employing vessels registered as British , that amendments to the UK 1988 Merchant Shipping Act which excluded 95 of their vessels from British waters were illegal under EC law and had exposed them to financial ruin . |
| 4 | They had all learned from him ; she and Lisa still spoke , stylistically , as he had taught them to . |
| 5 | All the same , the theme is still national honour and personal loyalty , the lessons which Dick teaches to Anastasia as successfully as he had taught them to the weak but responsive Carol . |
| 6 | But the archaeologists ' obsession with the past had blinded them to the real cause of the lamentations they witnessed along the river . |
| 7 | Uncle Walter had given them to him , Philip . |
| 8 | Maureen said : ‘ I did n't think about them again until that psychic woman asked for them , but it was only after I had given them to her I realized they were n't his at all . |
| 9 | I had given them to Menna when he first left to take up his post . |
| 10 | I had to strap them to my bicycle , which is why they look a bit battered . ’ |
| 11 | Neither she nor Nick were particularly tidy ; at home , in their warm , muddly house , no one had expected them to be . |
| 12 | Recent research has shown that well-informed mothers who have been able to take responsibility for decisions in pregnancy and labour feel happier after the event , even when their plans did n't work out as they had expected them to . |
| 13 | She wanted to giggle ; she had expected them to be told to hold hands and summon up the spirits of the dead . |
| 14 | She had expected them to be hard and hurtful , cruelly punishing . |
| 15 | The rout of 1987 , when they lost more than half their seats north of the Border , had inured them to disaster . |
| 16 | Whereas Catherine the Great had confined them to the western and southern borderlands of the empire and Alexander I had encouraged them to consider economic diversification and cultural assimilation , Nicholas intervened in their lives more dramatically . |
| 17 | And , if so , what had pushed them to such ruthless lengths ? |
| 18 | Lovely warm things will be said to-day : she might not be dead if we had said them to her while alive , and let her weep out her hurt and pain at her rejection on our shoulders . |
| 19 | Those peasants who continued to own draught animals had lent them to relief organizations at the height of the Famine , but by the spring of 1922 they refused to do this any longer , since they now found many profitable uses for them . |
| 20 | Others in the FLNC had attributed them to anti-nationalist elements in Corsica linked to the ( Gaullist ) Rally for the Republic ( RPR ) and the Left Radical Movement ( MRG ) . |
| 21 | They had been my constant care since Mr Parker had handed them to me . |
| 22 | Erm by nineteen forty eight no in in nineteen forty seven with the rise of absolute egalitarianism , the policy of narrowing its base had helped them to erm get the peasant support and to get into power but that was no longer necessary erm and the radicalization of land reform it appears had been based upon false premises which had created problems in the countryside and the Party . |
| 23 | She had invited them to lunch as a silent farewell . |
| 24 | If they had given the matter any thought , however , and some incident had alerted them to the dangers of being too relaxed , there was no doubt they would have strained every muscle to elude the worst poverty . |
| 25 | He had dragged them to dog tracks , pubs , bare knuckle fights . |
| 26 | This was utter nonsense from a communist point of view and neither Ceauşescu nor Brezhnev had any intention of abiding by the terms of the Helsinki agreement , but its value to them lay in its public announcement to the peoples of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union that the West had abandoned them to their fate . |
| 27 | ‘ I kept sending the demands back and when I went in I was told not to worry , they had to send them to the last known address . |
| 28 | Late in the afternoon , he asked and obtained from the now bemused Prior the services of the lay brother who had accompanied them to Earlston . |
| 29 | On the morning of the shooting at Bunbeg bus terminal , he had accompanied them to a firing range at Kinnegar to familiarise them with weapons used by the terrorists . |
| 30 | They had come within sight of the stables by this time , and Mrs Alderley 's coachman , seeing his mistress approaching , made haste to open the door , calling to the groom who had accompanied them to reharness the horses which had been released from the bit . |