Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] to [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catherine 's anger was also aroused when a photographer took pictures of her topless on the French Riviera and sold them on to a men 's magazine . |
| 2 | A successful private deal also means that creditors and shareholders have reached a voluntary consensus , which binds them in to the firm 's future health . |
| 3 | In June of that year a group of armed men rounded up some of the teachers and started to take them down to the principal 's house . |
| 4 | Suppose you take me down to the Brownies ' Bridge sometime — perhaps tomorrow , as you are on holiday from school — and I 'll tell you about my Brownies . ’ |
| 5 | " Dear mermaids , wo n't you please turn the wheel and spin me down to the sea-king 's palace ? " |
| 6 | Like tonight , Parents ' Evening , when they had assembled at his behest in the Staff Common Room overlooking the school driveway to watch out for arriving parents and usher them through to the headmaster 's sitting-room , where the first part of the festivities were to take place . |
| 7 | Pennethorne protested that since 1845 , he had devoted himself entirely to the Office 's work and now found that he had lost all his work . |
| 8 | In general , the baby 's wishes had tended in the past to be suspect , and the mother had been expected to look for some non-permissible motive behind them , in the form either of dangerous ( probably erotic ) impulses or of a rebellious determination to dominate the mother-in either case , constant control of the child was called for , and only the baby who had submitted himself completely to the mother 's control could be called a good baby . |
| 9 | When it fell to Dukes to introduce the second stage of the Bill empowering the referendum , he was forced to address himself specifically to the bishops ' arguments in their letter ( text , Irish Times , 15 May 1986 ) . |
| 10 | The mite then seizes the chance to lever itself on to the ant 's head , where it hangs on , upside down , with its hind legs . |
| 11 | You must ask the mermaids to turn the wheel , and whirl you down to the sea-king 's halls . |
| 12 | And at temperatures of 40°C plus , the insect can orient itself parallel to the Sun 's rays to reduce the amount of body surface facing the Sun . |
| 13 | Today many live on something close to the Church 's minimum stipend of £12,200 a year and their accommodation is more likely to be in the council semi mould . |
| 14 | In the form in which the proposals on community service appeared in the Bill they owed something also to the Government 's hope that the new measure would be seen as a credible alternative to custodial sentences , thus contributing towards the aim of bringing down the prison population . |
| 15 | The conductor would send me round to the front with my fishing box , the driver would send me back to the conductor 's end and so it went on . |
| 16 | ‘ The latest idea is to actually take them out to the hairdresser 's or shopping , so that happens every month without fail , sometimes more often . |
| 17 | She entered her life 's work full of joy at being allowed to give herself wholly to the Lord 's service . " |
| 18 | Her eyes drifted shut and she gave herself up to the kiss 's magic , her own lips even more gentle and tentative than his . |
| 19 | And she 'd to go to , to get her into the pony and cart and get her away to the doctor 's and get it stitched and , oh boy . |
| 20 | But , but i i i i if you went yes I mean er in a sense that th there are one possibility is to redistribute the land , and do that equally , but if , if there , there was not enough land to bring everybody up to subsistence level er I mean some were , the , the argument is there was n't enough land to bring everybody up to a landlord 's subsistence level . |
| 21 | I picked up my fags and the bag of grass from near the campfire and motioned her around to the driver 's door . |
| 22 | Agrippa excused himself whilst Catesby took Benjamin and me across to the Queen 's spacious chamber on the second floor of the Tower just next to St Stephen 's Chapel . |
| 23 | Why not take it down to the firm 's office and let the experts see it for themselves ? |
| 24 | They loaded the Zodiac dinghy , outboard motor , and the limpet mines into the camper and drove south , reaching Auckland around 7.30 p.m. where witnesses living at Stanley Point on the northern shore of Auckland Harbour saw two men take an inflatable dinghy out of a camper van and carry it down to the water 's edge . |
| 25 | With much huffing and puffing , the beetles managed to lift the pebble and carry it over to the professor 's circle . |
| 26 | The drug also finds it way to the mother 's milk and so could exert its effects on newborn children . |
| 27 | But the longing will draw its follower into hard places , so Hilton quotes Matthew 16:24 : Si quis vult post me venire , abneget semetipsum , et tollat crucem suam , et sequatur me [ If any man will come after me , let him deny himself , and take up his cross , and follow me ] and relates it explicitly to the anchoress 's mode of religious life : This is the way she shares the work of redemption which is Christ 's . |
| 28 | Other team members , the bull-grapplers , hurled themselves on to the bull 's horns to pad them with their own bodies and make the beast lower its head ( Figure 50 ) . |
| 29 | His son , Guardsman George , freely admits that the Fawcetts helped themselves judiciously to the region 's edible game . |