Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He says bring them straight to the first tee . |
| 2 | ‘ This will help to redress the balance and bring them back to a positive situation . |
| 3 | Each pupil had to detail a movement in front of the squad pretending to be a drill sergeant and my detail was to get my squad from the stand easy position , slope arms and march them some 50 yards , then bring them back to the original position order arms and stand at ease . |
| 4 | Next he led the spinnaker sheets aft to the cockpit and made them fast to the stern cleats with plenty of slack . |
| 5 | So you can carve up the remains and sell them off to the highest bidders ? ’ |
| 6 | They went down a narrow lane called Smugglers ' Gully , which led them on to a wild rocky headland . |
| 7 | The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing . |
| 8 | With marked reluctance , the elderly woman led them inside to a small sitting-room , which overlooked the garden at the rear of the house . |
| 9 | So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her . |
| 10 | Soil pipes from downstairs WCs may be connected to the main soil stack of a single-stack system , but it is often better to connect them directly to the underground drains . |
| 11 | He led me through to the next room , and up against the wall there lay a stack of some ten to fifteen canvases . |
| 12 | I arrived early and he led me upstairs to a comfortable polish-scented lounge and made coffee , before returning to the bar to finish off . |
| 13 | The hotel staff felt sorry for the Garda and asked them round to the back door , where they handed out tots of whiskey . |
| 14 | Firefighters have rejected a one point five per cent pay offer bringing them closer to a national strike . |
| 15 | ( d ) The massive body of historical research that has gone on throughout this century has gradually discovered new sources of information and refined our views of the early modern period , in all probability bringing them closer to the objective truth . |
| 16 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 17 | It seemed as if Lydia would take them like a new baby and display them triumphantly to the assembled company . |
| 18 | I went out I went out with Peggy er on Wednesday er for meal and she 's been saving Daily Telegraph vouchers and when you got so many vouchers you send them up to the Daily Telegraph , who 's sent them , it 's offers closed now and they send you a thing like a credit card and they send you a list of all the places that you can go to for a half- price meal |
| 19 | If their shells are near the Julies , then it might be politic to shuffle them gradually to the other end . |
| 20 | The next day they moved me up to the second floor to work with Mr Perkins , a weird old guy who smelt of dogs and cleaned his ears out with the lid from his ballpoint pen . |
| 21 | Incidentally , the last I heard , that weekly coach to the Upper Witham was still running — under the name of Heeley Angling Club and , even more surprising , I understand that ’ Jock ’ was still driving them up to a few years ago . |
| 22 | But then to pass them on to a third party is heinous . ’ |
| 23 | Republics collect taxes but are refusing to pass them on to the central government . |
| 24 | Perhaps the best way to familiarise yourself with the sound of specific intervals is by relating them back to the major scale based on the root of the given chord . |
| 25 | Where there is a Compact they will direct you immediately to the appropriate contact . |
| 26 | Probably because it was a way of roping him in for the future , Malcolm invited him down to a few rehearsals . |
| 27 | Adam was so extreme ; they really would cart him off to a padded cell one of these days . |
| 28 | She was just getting used to the chestnut when Alejandro moved her on to a dark brown mare who , when it was n't bucking , shied at the ball , and then on to another chestnut , whom she had great difficulty in holding . |
| 29 | ADRIAN MAGUIRE moved upsides reigning champion Peter Scudamore at the head of the jockeys ' table when a double aboard Calapaez and Mr Felix moved him on to the 32 winner mark at Plumpton yesterday . |
| 30 | It seemed like a minor miracle when she found herself seated within touching distance of the small group of musicians , until she realised that Rune was well-known here , not only by the management but , as the current number drew to a triumphant close , to the players as well , as they drew him on to the low rostrum and surrounded him with much back-slapping and laughter . |