Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb past] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you start doing a passenger service when you got the mail contract or did you to the mail just on its own first or did you |
| 2 | Then everything was movement , sensation , and she could no longer laugh or speak or do anything but be carried along by a force greater than anything she had ever known before , a force that took them to the heavens to touch the stars that had already decided their destiny . |
| 3 | ‘ It was brilliant to hit the goals that took us to the top , and it 's got to be the best 90 minutes of my career . ’ |
| 4 | That is a talent that followed him to the Foreign Office and to the Department of Health , where he helped Ken Clarke take on hospital doctors attacking their tales of long hours as ‘ fishermen 's stories ’ . |
| 5 | She thanked the driver , lifted the latch of the low iron gate and took four steps that brought her to the front door . |
| 6 | In sudden fury Leonora caught hold of his legs and swung them to the floor . |
| 7 | ‘ So , ’ he was saying to the Prince 's chauffeur as Owen arrived , ‘ you picked the two girls up from the salon and took them to the river at Beni Suef ? ’ |
| 8 | Having said that , he self-consciously dropped his gaze from her disappointed eyes and turned it to the multi-patterned carpet . |
| 9 | The count simply abandoned the small , expensive aircraft and led them to the car . |
| 10 | The man then grabbed her around the neck and forced her to the ground . |
| 11 | The sun became relentlessly hot , adding dehydration to my distress ; I stripped off my pyjamas and restored them to the rucksack . |
| 12 | She made him a sandwich and brought it to the table . |
| 13 | He lifted out a white silk blouse trimmed with fine lace , felt the fabric and handed it to the sales assistant who stood behind them . |
| 14 | Members of the Colchester Colne Round Table Club collected the party of eight-to-12-year-olds from the Greenstead estate by minibus and took them to the Wilson Marriage Centre in Barrack Street . |
| 15 | Following her instructions to the letter , I took the centre stitch and transferred it to the adjacent needle . |
| 16 | When I got ashore I stole a small fishing boat and sailed it to the Delta . |
| 17 | Mr Kendall , you came through the hole , found Mr Goodhaven and brought him to the surface . |
| 18 | They took pictures and reported it to the RSPCA . |
| 19 | I put the small boat on my shoulders and carried it to the edge of the water , then I put it in the sea . |
| 20 | Alan wrapped one of his cot blankets round his shoulders and took him to the kitchen to make a drink . |
| 21 | Mamma put her ample arm round Noreen 's shaking shoulders and brought her to the kitchen table and made her sit down . |
| 22 | He was very nearly as tall as her , but she put an arm under his shoulders and supported him to the untidy room which served as the stable office , calling to one of the stable girls to take over the class . |
| 23 | At 7.00 next morning he placed the basin in his tin and handed it to the attendant , who put it in the hot cupboard . |
| 24 | Fired by an intensely feminine and creative energy , she was spotted as a teenager by her first impresario , who snapped her up off the streets where she had been making her living and introduced her to the torrid cabaret life of the French capital . |
| 25 | Myeloski produced his warrant-card and showed it to the doctor . |
| 26 | I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome . |
| 27 | One day his inquisitors would take Master Learmouth and put him to the question . |
| 28 | Presumably it was both practical and political reasons that led him to the subject working party strategy . |
| 29 | His enthusiastic and entrepreneurial promotion of these studies , however , was combined with a political naïvety that blinded him to the problems that can arise from reliance on external sources of funding in politically charged fields of study . |
| 30 | His threat reflected anger at the results of an internal party election that relegated him to the number four spot in the party leadership and his supporters to inferior slots on the party ticket . |