Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The animal began to gnaw at the ropes binding her to the altar . |
| 2 | How many uplifts should I use , and do I need special adaptors to connect them to the filter ? |
| 3 | However , the prior hypothesis led us to the finding in the rural high oil worker category ( table II , both for all ages and the 0–4 age group . |
| 4 | The web tangled and clung mawkishly around her reasoning as Fernando lowered her to the bed . |
| 5 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 6 | She confessed that the bitter jibes and over-exposure led her to the precipice . |
| 7 | Biff lowered him to the ground , and untied the rope . |
| 8 | In traditional manner Rolle treats the gifts of the Holy Spirit listed as Wisdom , Understanding , Counsel , Might , Knowledge Piety and Fear of the Lord in Isaiah 11 in the inverted hierarchical order Counsel , Understanding , Wisdom to relate them to the process of withdrawal from the world and achievement of that inner discretion which is the ground of contemplation ; he then deals with strength , piety , knowledge and the fear of the Lord itemised as forces which stimulate man to self-knowledge and help the soul to endure against sin , all aspects of a more active spirituality . |
| 9 | Bob and I are progressing as a piano/clarsach duo , and of course some of the accompaniments to his songs tax me to the limit , or have to be vetoed altogether . |
| 10 | Macintosh System 7 : You get in the car to go to the store and the car drives you to the church . |
| 11 | waves push me to the side |
| 12 | But when they reached the dock and were waiting for the boat to carry them to the camp , Seth snatched the van 's keys , nearly breaking two of Suzy 's fingers in the struggle . |
| 13 | Hari led him to the bench and watched as Lewis tied on his apron . |
| 14 | Andrew Chubb , prosecuting , claimed Blissett elbowed Uzzell after the defender beat him to the ball and headed it away . |
| 15 | She turned away , shutting her eyes to adjust them to the darkness , and then with no further hesitation she was going down the rope hand over hand , her feet and knees checking at each knot . |
| 16 | When Andy invited me to the launch of the The Gadget Shop I naively assumed it would be in the shop itself , in Covent Garden . |
| 17 | She was still deep in thought when the sound of a car drew her to the window . |
| 18 | The President drove him to the station . ’ |
| 19 | It was an attempt to lead him to the realization that this was something that would n't work … |
| 20 | Her next whimpered , broken words cut him to the heart . |
| 21 | He had been about to open the door into the kitchen , but now he turned and looked at her , and his next words cut her to the bone as they were apt to do when they spat the truth at her . |
| 22 | One moment of astonishing creativity in the dying seconds on Saturday transported him to the centre of Arsenal 's universe . |
| 23 | His weight toppled her to the air-bed that shushed and bounced beneath them . |
| 24 | But as he made his getaway , shoppers wrestled him to the ground forcing him to drop the stolen loot — along with £200 he had stashed in a pocket — and he fled empty-handed . |
| 25 | This episode leads me to the idea that at the physical level , there is a need for a philosophy to overcome disasters and fear , and also to help that majority of people who do not fulfil all their biological needs , and who have to sublimate them . |
| 26 | For long moments she toyed with his anxious , quivering wand , dexterously using her warm wet tongue and soft lips to guide him to the brink of orgasm . |
| 27 | And we would have seen how her eyes followed him to the door . |
| 28 | After it was all over there was another strange and thrilling event when a car whisked me to the News at Ten studios where I was interviewed by someone in Leeds . |
| 29 | Pahdra Singh called me to the club this morning where he and Reg Pybus and their crony , that stingy git Pugh , the corpse planter , unveiled the new team strip . |
| 30 | Other voluntary hospitals with such funds lost them to the Exchequer , which pooled them in a central fund . |