Example sentences of "[prep] they [conj] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The consequence was inertia ; no controversial issue could ever hope to be resolved satisfactorily , so governments , preoccupied with survival , merely tended to forget about them or postpone them to some indeterminate future date . |
| 2 | Very soon dirty plates began to cascade down the chute and my job was to knock the food remains off them and transfer them to a mechanical washer . |
| 3 | ’ Blenkarn received the goods but never paid for them and sold them to Cundy who knew nothing of his fraud . |
| 4 | The viking army also would not let the giantesses rest , but sailed away with them and set them to grinding salt ; they ground so much that the boat sank and the mill with it , though still ( adds folk-tradition ) in the Maelstrom the giantesses grind their magic quern . |
| 5 | The mind of the human observer is endowed with creative imagination ; this allows the scientist not only to make discoveries about the laws of nature but to tamper with them and exploit them to his own advantage . |
| 6 | The three youths waited , debating within themselves whether honour had been satisfied as he took his attention from them and returned it to Marion ; and suddenly , as his eyes burned into her like a couple of lasers , it was as if the two of them stood alone and everything else was just background . |
| 7 | It was suggested that some existing pensioners , who may not have drawn the sum due to them on leaving the Bank , could now claim the sum due to them and donate it to the Fund . |
| 8 | ( v ) Fix the cells by pipetting 70% alcohol on to them and allow them to air dry . |
| 9 | Send me letters here still and I shall ask my new friend Mr ( wall-eyed ) Wood ( prop. ) to sit on them or speed them to another valley by pigeon post . |
| 10 | I like to look at them and show them to my guests . |