Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . " |
| 2 | But the location is , as it were , accidental , and contributes nothing to the tension between Circe and Persephone as it has been teased out , in this passage along with others , by Guy Davenport ( see his ‘ Persephone 's Ezra ’ , in New Approaches to Ezra Pound ) . |
| 3 | Thus the illustration contributes nothing to the text , which runs ‘ Edward [ actually Edgar ! ] lightly sprung aside and avoided the cut aimed at him , and then delivered a blow with all his force just in front of the ear , and the man dropped again as if shot . ’ |
| 4 | I never use plonk — it contributes nothing to the recipe and can ruin a dish . |
| 5 | waves push me to the side |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She says we do n't want to destroy children 's innocence on the other hand we want to alert them to the dangers . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It must have seemed to them that Marian and Allen had perished in the flames and their own immediate concern was to remove themselves from the danger of the roof falling in on their heads and from the certain consequence that so conspicuous a fire in the night would be seen by the outlaws and would sooner or later bring them to the scene . |
| 13 | ‘ The initial plan was to put companies together and bring them to the market . ’ |
| 14 | Bring them to the forecourt . |
| 15 | The four system units will be organised around products — mainframe computers , mid-range , self-service terminal systems and application software , and is intended significantly to cut the time it takes for products to get to market — the aim is to cut in half the time it takes to develop products and bring them to the market . |
| 16 | Bring them to the next lesson . |
| 17 | The plan was to rescue a coach load of Bosnian children from the fighting in the former Yugoslavia and bring them to the safety of England . |
| 18 | Find Gilleis and Adam for me , and bring them to the chapel . |
| 19 | in so far as this order purports to have any extraterritorial effect , no person shall be affected thereby or concerned with the terms thereof until it shall be declared enforceable or be enforced by a foreign court and then it shall only affect them to the extent of such declaration or enforcement unless they are : |
| 20 | Dr. Welch recommended them to the committee , who noted the report but took no further action . |
| 21 | How can we adapt them to the problem that will , the situation we 're in . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been telling myself I would n't let this happen , ’ he rasped , ‘ but there 's something about you that drives me to the edge of my control . ’ |
| 23 | The telephone rang at 8a.m. this morning to alert me to the fact that you were to be broadcasting on Radio 4 … 't was a friend of mine to whom I had mentioned your future plans … |
| 24 | The House of Lords has concluded that our Sunday trading laws are unclear and has therefore referred them to the European Court of Justice to clarify whether they are compatible with European law . |
| 25 | ( Araceae ) , which offers nothing to the ants . |
| 26 | However , encouraging them to the extent that they can be relied upon to keep roses clean is hardly practical . |
| 27 | In other words , management must continue to develop their own professional skills and sell them to the best bidder . |
| 28 | And then perhaps , sell them to the highest bidder . ’ |
| 29 | When a large debt issue is undertaken , the Bank will underwrite a large proportion of the issue and slowly sell them to the market over a period of time to avoid excess supply of government debt . |
| 30 | Sell them to the knackers yard . |