Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] to a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The shaft of the arrow protruding from my back occasionally knocked against something , bringing me to a gasping halt .
2 By that time , the Scottish team had gone through three practice sessions , while the Aussies from Queensland expect their post-season training to see them to a successful defence of the tournament , which starts today .
3 Philpott led them to a pale-blue door at the end of the passage .
4 At noon , the exhausted Pack gathered together and Brown Owl led them to a shady area .
5 Anderson captained Ireland on their short tour of France , led them to an unexpected victory over a French XV and keeps the job now but age and waning powers put a question-mark over his selection for the team at all .
6 ‘ Let's go and have a drink , then you can treat me to a celebratory dinner ! ’
7 Pain , boredom and badgering of some very kind nurses bring me to a steam-age typewriter in the hospital 's occupational therapy department .
8 I skulked down one side of the garden and went through the arch which led me to a walled garden in the middle of which there was a fountain playing .
9 I gave my orders and they led me to a private room and brought me some writing paper and a pen .
10 Where was Um Al-Farajh , I asked him , and he led me to a large square of fir trees and pointed to the earth .
11 Where in his character-drawing O'Brian touches the reader 's imagination by the unexpected , Forester satisfied his readers by helping them to a complete acquaintance with his officers and men .
12 Such incidents have now been reported sufficiently often in langurs and in lions , for example , to invalidate an early explanation attributing them to a high population density .
13 Typically then they operate to defeat the title of the unpaid seller ( let us call him C ) who has entrusted his goods to a buyer who , without paying C , has in turn sold them to an innocent purchaser .
14 You can do more than play games : you can add them , multiply them , and develop them to a remarkable depth .
15 Mr. Wall argued that the exercise of the discretion which arises as a result of the finding of ‘ acquiescence ’ made by the Court of Appeal , is limited to considering the nature and quality of the acquiescence itself and would not entitle the court to take into account ‘ welfare ’ considerations relating specifically to the children unless the court were able to find that there had been established a grave risk that the return of the children would expose them to an intolerable situation under article 13 ( b ) .
16 The central figure points me to a single chair , placed opposite .
17 Would you trust him/her to a permissive relationship with contemporary television ?
18 On the day before de Macon sailed on his second voyage , the Ralembergs invited me to a formal supper .
19 It was a crisp Saturday morning in February , and the young man had picked her up from her flat and was driving them to a motor-racing track in the heart of Surrey .
20 He helped them to a waiting car and drove to nearby St Thomas 's Hospital .
21 The most difficult aspect of a merger is trying to put a team together of people who come from different business cultures and trying to adjust them to a different end .
22 And this is gon na introduce you to a new word called psychographic and psychographic , you think you 've got , you can break it in two you 've got the psychological aspects and the graphic or mapping , the mapping of the psychology .
23 Send him to a regional office ? ’
24 Nottingham Crown Court 's been told that a taxi driver sexually assaulted a woman passenger after ignoring her instructions and driving her to a secluded area in Clumber Park .
25 And a court in Nottingham hears how a taxi driver sexually assaulted a female passenger after driving her to a secluded spot in Park .
26 A court in London has heard how a taxi driver sexually assaulted a female passenger after driving her to a secluded spot in Clumber Park .
27 Lucy spent just three days in intensive care before doctors moved her to an ordinary ward at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital .
28 His sudden smile transformed him to an astonishing degree , revealing the man behind the remote consultant .
29 Her abilities might suit her to a top job in the Civil Service , but she gets such a buzz from being in the private sector , she would hate the very idea .
30 The baby weighed less than one kilo , she took it to the clinic and a clinic worker helped her to a nearby hospital .
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