Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] i to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sure enough , a high-pitched peeping drew me to the stable , and there on the floor was the hen with one minute black puff-ball of a chick . |
| 2 | A boat returned me to the little coral landing-strip ; Friendly Islands Airways took me down to Tongatapu ; and within half a day I was settled in a small hotel in Auckland , waiting for the weekly Cathay Pacific jet home . |
| 3 | But my heart was not in insurance , and when Fred Workman recalled me to the editorial offices I rushed back to my old love . |
| 4 | So the sent me to the er eye infirmary and of course the eye infirmary sent me to the blind school . |
| 5 | I felt strange , almost disembodied , but my feet carried me to the green door and I pushed it open . |
| 6 | The striking of the half hour alerted me to the incoming tide of darkness . |
| 7 | Ellen had gone to her one-room apartment in town while Thessy was reading his Bible in the main-cabin , so I heated myself some baked beans in Wavebreaker 's microwave , spread them on buttered toast , soaked them in brown sauce , then ate a morose supper on deck until the bugs drove me to the screened sanctuary of the staterooms below . |
| 8 | Uncle Joe subjected me to the same torture and humiliation every time we were alone together — although , thankfully , he never actually went as far as raping me . |
| 9 | My father took me to the Soviet Union when I was very small . |
| 10 | The gate porter brought me to the main entrance , and I was shown into a small pleasant office in the front of the administrative block . |
| 11 | The second day continued where the first day left off : four catches by Hick to equal the record for a Test against Pakistan originally set by the little-remembered spinner Jim McConnon of Glamorgan in 1954 , and then my researches led me to the remarkable fact that John Birch , who played for Notts from 1973 to 1988 , was known as ‘ Bonk ’ . |
| 12 | Crilly took me to the old town once ; it was a sooty place just north of the city , bordered by cakey cliffs and a greasy sliver of sea and a forlorn lighthouse jutting into the grey Irish sky , flashing blurry and red through the low clouds , omitting a lackadaisical moo only from time to time . |
| 13 | So we went to the locker-room of Portmarnock and Peter introduced me to the great Arnold Palmer . |
| 14 | The day after I finished working for the managing director of a certain company fighting off a take-over bid , the agency sent me to the rival company . ’ |
| 15 | A splendid , concise article in your Apr 26 Business section alerted me to the underhand profiteering of at least one of the high street banks at its farmer customers ' expense before the scandal broke in the national press and before the Chancellor of the Exchequer carpeted the bank bosses . |