Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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1 | So we set the scene , we look good , we have n't crushed them to death and he 's gon na take us into one or two areas |
2 | He then transports them to earthly space for human use . |
3 | He preferred outwork : " In a factory you confine them to the hours the master pleases , in the cottage they work very often 15 or 16 hours . " |
4 | Removal of British troops from Northern Ireland or confine them to barracks . |
5 | I was so rattled I glanced round to make sure this was n't a signal for an army of bunnies like this Dobermann of a beast to come up from behind and tear me to shreds . |
6 | But the shaming should not be of a ‘ stigmatizing ’ nature which will tend to exclude them from being accepted members of the community ; it should be of a kind which serves to reintegrate them within it , by getting them to accept that they have done wrong while encouraging others to readmit them to society . |
7 | ‘ You have explained me to myself , Harry , ’ he said slowly . |
8 | I had to strap them to my bicycle , which is why they look a bit battered . ’ |
9 | Hard experience has taught me to be selective in my procrastination . |
10 | waves push me to the side |
11 | The Abbey is now planning a fifth mailshot to alert them to their windfalls . |
12 | Det Insp Brian Welfare , of Sussex CID , said that he had met the university 's residential advisers to alert them to the risk to other students . |
13 | She recommended that a meeting with Social Services would be helpful to alert them to the ‘ dynamics ’ of this family and to advise them that ‘ as professionals we were anxious that we had not managed to engage and intervene within the family and explore deficits in the parenting role ’ . |
14 | Moreover , these activities are interactions between students , and as such may fail to alert them to the choice and ordering of information produced by native speakers . |
15 | Some nectar-eating ants cut down on the time they spend searching for food by using their body clock to alert them to mealtimes . |
16 | An electronic system 's been introduced to alert them to any emergency . |
17 | An electronic system 's been introduced to alert them to any emergency . |
18 | She says we do n't want to destroy children 's innocence on the other hand we want to alert them to the dangers . |
19 | He offers them to his friends . |
20 | The shaft of the arrow protruding from my back occasionally knocked against something , bringing me to a gasping halt . |
21 | By that time , the Scottish team had gone through three practice sessions , while the Aussies from Queensland expect their post-season training to see them to a successful defence of the tournament , which starts today . |
22 | You 'd really need to see them to I mean I could n't explain it to you really . |
23 | ‘ No need to see me to my room , Alec , ’ she said , reaching for the candlestick . |
24 | Right across the village , men and women stooped over , black forms against a world of white , shovelling great heaps of snow and tumbling them to the ground in frothy white cascades . |
25 | Doody notes that Leapor picks up Swift 's characters or anti-characters and turns them to her own purposes . |
26 | An interesting aspect of any ‘ counter-revolution ’ is that it takes the terms of the ‘ revolution ’ and turns them to its own purposes . |
27 | And on the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest , to the door of the tent of meeting . |
28 | On 11 February 1322 he recalled his favourites ; on 14 February he called upon Aymer de Valence , Earl of Pembroke , justice of the Forest south of Trent , to arm a ‘ suitable number ’ of foresters and bring them to Coventry . |
29 | The bishops hired spies and informers to track down dissenting preachers and bring them to trial . |
30 | The Rev. Owen could therefore use sign language , and together with another clergyman , encouraged the young man to seek out as many local deaf people as possible and bring them to church services . |