Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] them [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Denying armchair dog punters instant access to the results is claimed to steer them back to the tracks whose attendances have dipped from 30million to under 4million . |
| 2 | In this case , the Bank buys bills but agrees to sell them back to the market at an agreed price some time in the future . |
| 3 | Republics collect taxes but are refusing to pass them on to the central government . |
| 4 | Erm where I find I ca n't understand the regional accent I 'm going to give them back to the person who recorded them |
| 5 | When special buses provided by the universities arrived to take them back to the campuses , most took up the offer . |
| 6 | The prisoners were taken to the riverside , where a boat was waiting to take them on to the prison-ship . |
| 7 | In June of that year a group of armed men rounded up some of the teachers and started to take them down to the principal 's house . |
| 8 | Like Croydon , Penge U.D.C. had the right to purchase its tramways in each seventh year on granting six months ' notice , but if it did , it had to lease them back to the Company . |
| 9 | I told my father I was trying to get them over to the far side , to the mainland , and that the ones I had to bury , the ones which fell short , were victims of scientific research , but I doubt I really needed this excuse , my father never seemed bothered about the suffering of lower forms of life , despite having been a hippy , and perhaps because of his medical training . |
| 10 | I had to take them back to the shop , and try another chemist . |
| 11 | Now BBONT , the local Wildlife Trust , is trying to bring them back to the area . |
| 12 | ‘ The IAAF must urgently review the situation , for when you make your rules you have to carry them out to the letter of the law . |
| 13 | So even University was n't completely on one side , and again the City was erm there was this sort of Puritan element that did n't like the King 's religious policies , erm there was this general feeling against the University which tended to put them off to the other side , but there are undoubtedly loyal citizens erm citizens loyal to the King . |
| 14 | The water tanks will be covered and their insulation improved to bring them up to the latest standards . |