Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ A French officer called to see me yesterday about the Hamnett affair . ’
2 ‘ I was to pick her up by the Souk Al-Gadira . ’
3 He 'd managed to track her down on the Friday evening , waiting for several minutes as she was summoned to the communal phone in the hall where she was now a deputy warden .
4 They had to forward it up to the Pentagon .
5 The first leg of the voyage was from the Tyne to Bergen in Norway , where a second group of trainees , from England took over to sail her back across the North Sea .
6 A decade ago , NEC Corp surged past Motorola Inc and Texas Instruments Inc to become the world 's largest chipmaker , and Japan has held the title ever since — until 1991 , when according to Dataquest , Intel Corp grew 26% to win it back for the US .
7 ‘ Perhaps you could lend me a servant to guide me back to the Grange ? ’
8 John Goold , a research student from the University of North Wales , said there had been a remarkable development when one of the whales broke away from the other five as they attempted to usher them out into the Pentland Firth for the second time .
9 ‘ Sadly there is n't a venue in England yet 1,200 British fans came over to cheer me on at The Hague in Holland recently . ’
10 She entered her life 's work full of joy at being allowed to give herself wholly to the Lord 's service . "
11 She told Julia only that the doctor had been wonderful in finding her son and in promising to let him live in the Campo San Maurizio .
12 If you need something a little larger , then you might also want to consider something out of the Uno range .
13 Trainer Nigel Twiston-Davies had intended to send him straight to the Cheltenham Festival , but the lure of the £25,000-added Cavalier Chase has proved too tempting .
14 But , says Alfred , it would take more than Hollywood stardom to lure him away from the Sussex cottage he shares with Jill and 12-year-old Rachel , his daughter from a previous relationship .
15 Adamus in a cloak of thunder , come to claim her again for the Scarabae .
16 There is no obligation whatsoever for it to extradite them either to the US or UK .
17 If Nodform Wonder is in anything like the form he was at Wetherby on Friday , he will laugh off the six pound penalty that is intended to slow him down in the Levy Board Handicap Hurdle at Kelso .
18 They offered Martinez millions to get them out of the Downton deal and into the Kane Corporation .
19 I told Jean-Claude to drop me off at the Place St Michel .
20 Thinking you were Napoleon was clearly not enough to get you out of the Wimbledon Islamic Boys ' Independent Day School .
21 ‘ Will she manage to get him out of the USA ? ’
22 Then the officials decided to transfer him back to the Los Angeles County Jail .
23 ‘ Well , Archie has a boat , and he says he can take us out to the bird islands , and I 'm sure we could get him to take you somewhere in the Land-Rover where you can fish .
24 Pat 's Jester 's defeat at Haydock yesterday has led Corals to take him out of the King George betting .
25 The two archbishops thought that Ramsey would be an excellent bishop but it was not right , it was bad for the Church as well as for the study of divinity , to take him out of the Cambridge chair after so short a tenure .
26 The XJ 40 had done 10,000 miles and he was glad of an excuse to take it back to the UK for a proper service .
27 ‘ I like their style of football and would like to test myself out in the Sydney Premiership .
28 He took us out in his boat a couple of times , and he offered to take us over to the Treshnish Isles , but the forecast was n't too good , so we never made it .
29 But they refused to hand him over to the US for trial and the coup crumbled when American troops stationed in Panama retaliated by ignoring their pleas for help against loyal troops .
30 ‘ They are enchanted by him , and that is why they made special arrangements to bring him home to the United States . ’
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