Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day in 1916 my driver took me to the town of Loos in Belgium . |
| 2 | I felt strange , almost disembodied , but my feet carried me to the green door and I pushed it open . |
| 3 | I was very glad that my acquaintances escorted me to the Metro , with instructions to change at Dentfert-Rochereau for the Cité Universitaire , where I had managed to book a room in the Pavillon Franco-Britannique . |
| 4 | it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it |
| 5 | One this girl traced my hand and I traced hers at the same time — I went very slowly , which triggered her ticklishness , and she laughed every time my pencil made it to the place between two of her fingers , but she was brave , she stayed put . |
| 6 | My father took me to the Soviet Union when I was very small . |
| 7 | I understood exam stress thanks to you — my daughter took me to the exams to help keep me calm . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | By the time I was fourteen I could n't wait to get away from that place and my mother took me to the hiring fair in the marketplace in Bishop Auckland . |
| 10 | And we would have seen how her eyes followed him to the door . |
| 11 | Her half-sister took her to the police . |
| 12 | Despairing of ever finding any use for her , her parents sold her to the military , a callous practice common in the commercially minded years of the mid-twenty-fourth century . |
| 13 | ‘ Some people kept little trees in secret courtyards , and flowers in their houses , but they were n't supposed to , and if their neighbours reported them to the police the people would have their trees chopped down and the flowers taken away and they would be fined or put in prison , where they had to work very hard , rubbing out writing on bits of paper so they could be used again . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps that 's because it was a private home until its owner gave it to the National Trust . |
| 15 | The Hastings brothers , he concluded , had made the significant contribution for the city team as their victory eased them to the sanctuary of ten points in the McEwan 's First Division . |
| 16 | The sad consequence on the children 's lives of the circumstances of their birth led me to the conclusion that pregnancy in elderly women might not be appropriate and the whole programme was stopped . |
| 17 | Even though he had a job to go to with Birmingham Repertory Company , his agent sent him to the Rank interview for the experience . |
| 18 | ‘ His indifference pushed her to the edge whereas he could have romanced her to the end of the world . |
| 19 | His weight toppled her to the air-bed that shushed and bounced beneath them . |
| 20 | He 'd come straight to her after leaving the theatre , and his impatience thrilled her to the core . |
| 21 | He has had a passion for buses and coaches ever since childhood when his father took him to the Darlington bus depot where he still works as a driver . |
| 22 | A year later his father followed him to the grave . |
| 23 | His diffidence blinded him to the truth that the one book was already influential in modern thinking . |
| 24 | Isambard 's hand on his shoulder brought him to the bench at the end of the room , where a film of stone-dust coated the floor , and several fragments of carvings and half-cut blocks of stone lay pushed together against the wall , as though discarded long ago . |
| 25 | His misery drove him to the theatre again , uselessly ; he had used up Dinah 's tickets , and was told at the box office that all seats were sold out . |
| 26 | Surgeons at Middlesbrough General sewed back on Aaron Solomon 's thumb after his dad carried it to the hospital , packed in ice . |
| 27 | Eventually , his wanderings led him to the ornate frontage of a steam-house . |
| 28 | Incredibly , fourteen months later , in 1981 , his ego goaded him to the Bahamas and another fight , the fat jellied on his middle , his hand-speed sighing and wheezing like a busted old fan ; tropic rot on the trade winds . |
| 29 | When he got home , his mother rushed him to the Royal Infirmary , wherein he was kept for two days . |
| 30 | One of our walks took us to the top of a huge escarpment at a place called Losiolo , or World 's View . |