Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terrified that it would try to escape or fly away , and not wanting to risk the Corporal 's anger , I pinned it to the ground by leaning a large stone against it . |
| 2 | I pinned it to the corkboard with a red drawing pin and a light heart , and went upstairs again to change back into jodhpur boots to deal with the terrain and to pick up the map and the compass in case I could n't find the trail . |
| 3 | I made it to the front of the clubhouse just in time to seize Jack 's bag and head for the practice ground . |
| 4 | I felt like a jaded casting director as I banished him to the wastepaper bin . |
| 5 | I rode it to the market today . ’ |
| 6 | Hell , I beat him to the handshake and it 's on camera . ’ |
| 7 | So I invited them to the gig at St Martin 's . |
| 8 | I reported it to the shop , but there was nothing they could do . |
| 9 | Every morning I drove him to the hospital , waited for his X-ray treatment , drove him home again and helped him to bed . |
| 10 | That bit I put in about knowing if we were being followed when I drove you to the station will stop them trying to do just that , will keep them away from here . |
| 11 | I directed him to the corner where I knew the compost heap was . |
| 12 | I handed it to the guru . |
| 13 | And then I I , I handed it to the lad , he said I 'll pass it on . |
| 14 | But I knocked you to the floor , and the blow was so hard that it made my hand throb for hours afterwards . |
| 15 | The clock on the mantelpiece chimed the half-hour , seven thirty , as I walked her to the door . |
| 16 | I beckoned her to the kitchen . |
| 17 | I did n't moor the boat to a financial institution , I moored it to the bank . |
| 18 | I returned it to the centre and exchanged it for another kit which also gave me a zero reading . |
| 19 | I pulled her to the side where Otley dragged her up the bank and began to dust her down as if she were not wet but dirty . |
| 20 | I guided him to the traffic island in the middle . |
| 21 | ‘ Ah , mortal , when first I called you to the pool in the Forest , you came swift as a bird — and I felt then that our souls answered to each other . |
| 22 | I remember one dress , it was brocade , and I wore it to the opening of the opera . |
| 23 | The C-in-C was sending his car for her , and when it arrived , I saw her to the quay . |
| 24 | I saw him to the door and watched him pace away along the streets he knew better than most others in London . |
| 25 | So I brought her to the valley . |
| 26 | ‘ I brought it to the Church leaders and was supported by Cardinal O'Fiaich . |
| 27 | Although it was late and Mr Edgar was tired after his journey , Joseph insisted , so I took him to the master 's room . |
| 28 | This was going on for a couple of days , so I was getting worried and I took him to the prison doctor and he says , ‘ It might be with you breastfeeding , try him on the bottle . ’ |
| 29 | P. E. A man dropped dead in front of me on the street and I took him to the mortuary and I got into trouble over it because I did n't search the body properly . |
| 30 | had to have one for a short while , she was quite young and I , we 'd only just moved here and I took her to the vet the used to be in Sandhurst , they said it was a bee sting , they put purple stuff on it |