Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Lots of men send their families home to England in the summer . ’ |
| 2 | Communications are therefore usually direct and easy , and the staff are able to relate their work personally to that of other departments . |
| 3 | It is not , therefore , unexpected that governments since the last war in this country have confined their efforts largely to this aspect of equality . |
| 4 | However with the advent of the reef aquarium , hopefully , the greater demand may encourage breeders who have confined their efforts only to breeding aquarium fish in the past , to turn to commercially rearing invertebrates . |
| 5 | Much better than sitting in pubs with young girls or even drinking with one 's colleagues , the hastily snatched pint of bitter before they caught their trains home to their wives . |
| 6 | Several species of birds — caciques and oropendolas in South America , for example , and weaverbirds in Africa — habitually build their nests close to those of ferocious wasps which many animals take care to avoid disturbing . |
| 7 | They build their nests close to an eyrie ; because they have learned that peregrines are highly efficient at driving away foxes ? |
| 8 | Autonomous enterprises , for instance , will no longer yield their surplus automatically to the central government ( one of the reasons for the collapse in the Soviet tax base and the widening budget deficit ) . |
| 9 | Both groups sold their services mainly to the rich and the upper classes , giving their service to the voluntary hospitals in the large cities . |
| 10 | Low gravity beers are called ‘ light ’ — even when they are black or walnut brown in colour — medium gravity beers are called ‘ heavy ’ and strong beers are known as ‘ export ’ , recalling the heyday of Scottish brewing when companies such as Younger sold their beers extensively to North America , India and Australasia . |
| 11 | It would , note , generally fall not on the individual household , but on whichever public authority is responsible for waste collection — and thus on local taxpayers — and on companies that bring their rubbish straight to the dump . |
| 12 | It had been agreed that Mary-Claude and the children would make their way independently to Spain , and wait for him to join them there . |
| 13 | One by one the watching men turned away and made their way silently to their vehicles . |
| 14 | They made their way across to the heavy door and it swung open at their touch . |
| 15 | In the case of computer-assisted learning , pupils who engaged in tasks only when directed to do so by their teacher and limited their responses only to those specifically indicated by the teacher would be functioning at this level . |
| 16 | So St Wilfrid the bishop and his clergy on bended knees lifted their hands again to heaven and gained the help of the Lord … who straightway bade the tide return before its usual hour , and while the pagans , on the coming of their king were preparing for a fourth battle , the sea came back and covered all the shore , so that the ship was floated and made its way into the deep . |
| 17 | The normal rule in such circumstances is for the convictions to be set aside : ‘ no reasonable jury who had applied their mind properly to the facts in the case could have arrived at the conclusion , and once one assumes that they are an unreasonable jury , or they could not have reasonably come to the conclusion , then the convictions can not stand . ’ |
| 18 | Candidates from other countries should send their applications directly to UCCA . |
| 19 | Men had stripped off shirts and even vests ; middle-aged ladies had daringly pushed their skirts right to the top of porridgecoloured thighs . |
| 20 | Here she was , all alone in the wildly romantic snow-covered Scottish mountains with a man most women would give their eye-teeth simply to be in the same room with , and her only wish was to get away from him . |
| 21 | Educating the people is vitally important too — because unless families understand why immunisation is so important , they will not bring their children forward to be vaccinated . |
| 22 | How many people have carefully bottled their beer only to be woken in the middle of the night by the sound of exploding corks ? |
| 23 | At 4am armed men came into my house forcing their way upstairs to my bedroom . |
| 24 | The third category has been characterized as queen 's bishops , owing their promotion largely to her influence and forming a party deliberately constructed by her over some half a dozen years ; but this view does not survive close scrutiny since only two of the alleged party were even remotely indebted to Isabella for their appointments . |
| 25 | I can remember their faces clearly to this very day . |
| 26 | These men have no industrial history and owe their presence there to men like Will Thorne , Jack Jones , etc. , who in the past gave labour the footing that it has attained … |
| 27 | It has been suggested that the term achnelith ( Greek , ‘ spray stones ’ ) should be used to describe pyroclastic particles which originated from lavas so fluid that they owe their shape more to the effects of surface tension than any other cause . |
| 28 | Research has also indicated that many members of the upper strata owe their position primarily to the fact that they have been born into those strata and have capitalized on the advantages provided by their social background . |
| 29 | Moreover , since teachers usually travel free , there is a sneaking suspicion that many exotic trips owe their genesis less to the intrinsic fascination of the flora and fauna than to the fact that the geography master has always wanted to visit Thailand . |
| 30 | Knights owe their allegiance directly to their lord : the Elector Count of their province . |