Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] to [art] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The test came back positive and Fiona 's doctor referred her to the top London expert in toxoplasma . |
| 2 | Teversham and his sergeant closed round Morgan , shepherding him to the waiting Land Rover with meaningless gentle instructions to watch the step , up you go now . |
| 3 | We invited Corpus Christi to tea and they in turn invited us to a sumptuous Sunday brunch in their garden overlooking Christ Church meadow . |
| 4 | Wilson et al took samples of diseased intestine and subjected them to a non-specific PCR amplifying the DNA of any bacteria present . |
| 5 | I was his assistant and when he wanted flowers he would send me to the Old Covent Garden at 4.30am to buy hundreds of pots of chrysanthemums which would then be sold off at the end of the day , thus serving a dual purpose as decoration and a means of recouping some of our costs . |
| 6 | Surely this love-struck lothario was not The Doc that bullied them to a successful FA Cup Final . |
| 7 | Continue west to Lillooet , where a breath-taking train ride through stunning mountainland delivers you to the world-renowned Whistler Resort . |
| 8 | A right-turn up Rue des Bouchers gets you to the stately Galeries Saint-Hubert , a nineteenth-century glass-roofed arcade lined with marble-fronted shops . |
| 9 | It decided her ; instantly she followed it to the broad Danube . |
| 10 | While the aircraft was unloaded the crew was spirited away by car through the back roads of the airport by a civilian with a machine-gun , who took them to the old Sheraton Hotel and offered them cakes and coffee . |
| 11 | He said he did everything he could to calm Farrow down , including on two occasions taking her to the exclusive Carlyle Hotel and sleeping with her after she begged him to do so . |
| 12 | I got him into the factory and from there we got the ambulance and … and I took him to the Royal Victoria Infirmary . ’ |
| 13 | Is there any point taking it to a local Sainsburys ? |
| 14 | Sam , on occasion , played his part by taking us to the annual Kelvin Hall Circus and Carnival — a wonderful treat . |
| 15 | Some hours later — no one counted , but it was a long time — eight soaking , snow-covered individuals just — but only just — on the right side of hypothermia made it to the main Teesdale road , which snow ploughs had kept open . |
| 16 | Guidebooks liken it to the Austrian Alps , but my wife reckons it 's more like the Norwegian fiords . |
| 17 | So we went to the locker-room of Portmarnock and Peter introduced me to the great Arnold Palmer . |
| 18 | Yanto grunted some inaudible remark and was introducing her to a goggle-eyed Billy as Nigger joined them . |
| 19 | The Sheffield Star , in a piece not destined to endear him to the average Brightside voter , wrote of his ‘ ministerial pin stripes and patrician smooth accent . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Allow me to introduce you to the new Mrs Morey . ’ |
| 21 | This is a collection of holiday ideas which can be added to any Amsterdam Holiday to introduce you to the real Amsterdam . |
| 22 | I have dedicated him to the blessed St John the Baptist and had him circumcised . ’ |
| 23 | Which brings us to the blockbusting Italy issue arranged by Morgan Stanley , the US investment bank which put together the first US-style issue in Europe with an offering for New Zealand in August . |