Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wound was covered lightly with a shell dressing , and I moved it to one side to have a look . |
| 2 | And I says , it 's an old lake dwelling , and er of course I mentioned it to this chap , just switch it off the now . |
| 3 | I threw it to one side . |
| 4 | Luckily there was a manger in the corner of his box with a tying-up ring next to it so I tied him to some baler twine , in case the worse came to the worse , and put his water and his hay at nose level in front of him . |
| 5 | I WAS married four years ago to a girl I loved very much , but I lost her to another man , because I was so incompetent when it came to having sex . |
| 6 | I took it to this kid at |
| 7 | The male started to bully the female , so I removed her to another tank — better to be safe than sorry . |
| 8 | My sister and I put him to good use . |
| 9 | ‘ It was over the night I accompanied you to that dinner and backed up your story . |
| 10 | I wanted it to forward wind , I think I pressed the wrong button . |
| 11 | If anything the gulf separating them from an outside world which uprooted families and whole villages for labour on distant farms , or worse still in factories and mines , which extracted taxes , recruits and grain , which subjected them to constant brutality and humiliation grew steadily wider . |
| 12 | and the legislation which anchored it to statutory process , had secured a firmer foothold and had begun to flirt uncertainly with wider issues . |
| 13 | The winner on the day was Francois Lombard — a result which took him to third place overall in the championships . |
| 14 | Baker 's sanitary reports on the cholera in Tyneside , and on housing and environmental conditions in Leeds , included a use of maps which brought him to wider notice . |
| 15 | A short flight up was a landing and the stairs turned in on themselves to another short flight , which brought her to another corridor similar to the one downstairs but more than twice its length . |
| 16 | He put himself into the hands of a psychiatrist who passed him to another psychiatrist , Leonard Browne . |
| 17 | Thank goodness we had tutors who helped us to some extent and who seemed quite accustomed to listening to tales of woe . |
| 18 | The prophets had sharp words for those who reduced them to this level . |
| 19 | Before they left , she took me to one side . |
| 20 | That frigid little scene you treated me to over breakfast ? ’ |
| 21 | And no-one was more delighted than the man who brought him to Central Park — scout Eric Hawley . |
| 22 | She sent me to that convent , thinkin' she would make something o' me . ' |
| 23 | She goes on slowly and naively : ‘ I 'm really glad , in a way , that you took me to that place . |
| 24 | Einstein was fortunate in having a friend Marcel Grossmann who introduced him to Riemannian geometry and who worked with him until Einstein left Zurich in 1914 . |
| 25 | She put it to one side , and opened the folder of photographs . |
| 26 | but because he knew it was our troop , you know but erm , that 's the thing when you , nine times , about eight times out of ten you did it to another troop , but then again they did it back to you , but this time he was a right cocky son of a bitch , I mean we all liked him , but he was right cocky bastard , so he |
| 27 | The wind was behind her now , blowing her hair forward , so that she could not see properly unless she pushed it to one side . |
| 28 | Someone brushed a hand across him for a gun , but finding none pushed him to one side . |
| 29 | No it , we took it to this bloke and I do n't know what he 's done with it because it played before we took it and when he , he said it were n't worth doing and when we brought it back it wo n't even roll now even play now will it ? |
| 30 | We hounded him to such effect that he responded in the classic 1970s way and set up no less than an official committee of inquiry to consider the whole position . |