Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tied a big red-and-white-striped drying-up cloth around each of their waists and made them kneel up to the table on chairs . |
| 2 | Accordingly it is interesting to speculate to what extent these attitudes have caused British businessmen to adopt short time-horizons in making decisions — with negative consequences for longer-term growth performance — because their main objective is to acquire sufficient wealth to enable them to move on to the better things in life . |
| 3 | I met Charlie , and he asked me to come along to the Mothering Day Service . |
| 4 | Something made me glance over to the long french windows leading to the back verandah , and there she was : Poppy , dressed from head to foot in black . |
| 5 | I mean I shout up to the bathroom , I mean |
| 6 | ‘ That 's the easiest way of getting your firewood — cut the trees at the edge of the forest and send them rolling down to the bottom . |
| 7 | ‘ Does Faye … or Dr Greene … want me to go in to the hospital ? ’ |
| 8 | You would n't catch me walking back to the house alone at night . |
| 9 | In the 1987 budget , a " carryback " was introduced for BES investors , enabling them to carry back to the previous tax year relief on up to 15,000 invested . |
| 10 | ‘ That should suit you right down to the ground . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Then I suggest you get back to the mill as soon as possible , before anyone notices that you 're missing . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Then I suggest you hop along to the end of the garden , ’ Sergeant told them . |
| 13 | Team 1 is concentrating on the basement and ground floor , so I want you to go up to the 4th level as team 2 will be putting out the flames on floors 2 + 3 . |
| 14 | ‘ I want you to go back to the house and telephone the Incident Room . |
| 15 | ‘ I want you to get back to the docks and get everybody out as fast as you can . |
| 16 | Wycliffe said : ‘ I want you to come back to the Incident Room with me where you will be asked to make a full statement . ’ |
| 17 | I want you to think back to the story of Mufaro |
| 18 | He wants you to go up to the villa . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Then I suggest we go back to the hotel in Trujillo , get hold of his number and phone him from there . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ In that case I suggest we go back to the living-room , ’ he said easily . |
| 21 | ‘ No one has any more to say on that point , so I suggest we move on to the next one . ’ |
| 22 | Well we 've talked football , we 've talked speedway , we 're now going to talk rugby , because if you 've been following the exploits of the Bicester Rugby Club , you 'll know they got through to the semi-finals of a big national competition , and they play that semi-final this coming Saturday . |
| 23 | He is right to change the emphasis of the list and we urge him to stand up to the civil servants who are resisting change . |
| 24 | I found him hooked up to the interactive software in the starpod . |
| 25 | Michael let him drop on to the filthy floor . |
| 26 | The handshake was a stupid idea as she was still holding Darren , but she let him slide down to the floor and we shook . |
| 27 | ‘ He should have knocked the guy cold and not let him go on to the fourth round . |
| 28 | When he was naked , she helped him climb on to the desk . |
| 29 | Ajayi was trying to cultivate the seneschal 's acquaintance ( when her sore leg and stiff back let her get down to the basement levels where he was usually to be found ) whereas Quiss had started out trying to intimidate him . |
| 30 | Therefore , if a clause giving a reason for such an action has a pronominal subject , we expect it to refer back to the questioner . |