Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gave my orders and they led me to a private room and brought me some writing paper and a pen . |
| 2 | How can they compare themselves to a former professional player who has played in front of ten or twenty thousand people ? ’ |
| 3 | Just in case they hold me to a four week |
| 4 | ‘ They drove us to a lonely creek , ’ she said . |
| 5 | They they deserve it to a certain extent . |
| 6 | When the villains were unable to get the caravan up a small incline , they hitched it to a stolen vehicle and wheel-spun their way onto the road . |
| 7 | Auto-exposure systems work by measuring the average brightness of the incoming picture , and they control it to a standard level by varying the lens iris opening and the ‘ gain ’ of the camcorder 's video amplifier . |
| 8 | When workers which have been out foraging return with crops full of honeydew and nectar , they feed it to a replete , which swells until its abdomen , once no bigger than a grain of sand , has swollen to the size of a large pea . |
| 9 | They slowed it to a steady well , but it would n't stop , and through it all there was the awful screaming . |
| 10 | They took me to a secret prison and raped me over and over again by forcing the barrel of a gun into me . |
| 11 | They took her to a small , perfect restaurant , where she had never been before , and fed her on soup and fish and meat and cheese , all of a quality and in quantities she had only dreamed of during the war . |
| 12 | Instead of lean convictions and supple value judgments , they treat us to a slick orgy of channel-hopping ( Hiltler word-bite plus Mapplethorpe sight-bite and so on ) and feed us quivering slices of deconstruction , done to a turn . |