Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bloom et al. " s study of how to is acquired in infinitival complement constructions led them to the clear conclusion that " the children learned to with the meaning " " direction towards " " and not as a meaningless syntactic marker " ( 1984 : 391 ) . |
| 2 | His final campaign photo-opportunity took him to the North-West and the Accrington Brick and Tile Company . |
| 3 | So the sent me to the er eye infirmary and of course the eye infirmary sent me to the blind school . |
| 4 | Even so , the cherry berets threw me to the ground , kicking me in the ribs as they frisked me for weapons . |
| 5 | She says : ‘ My husband John took me to the hairdresser yesterday . |
| 6 | A splendid , concise article in your Apr 26 Business section alerted me to the underhand profiteering of at least one of the high street banks at its farmer customers ' expense before the scandal broke in the national press and before the Chancellor of the Exchequer carpeted the bank bosses . |
| 7 | Brian Gordon Laudable sentiments Brian , but I have a funny feeling the organisers were more than glad that a big name team made it to the final . |
| 8 | The opening door recalled him to the present situation . |
| 9 | The opening encounter took them to the small island of St Vincent , where the pitch was some way from international standard . |
| 10 | Yeah received it last week Chief brought it to the meeting on Tuesday evening last week but the quickest like most national organisations somebody was sick right E B P week is the twenty first March |
| 11 | The gate porter brought me to the main entrance , and I was shown into a small pleasant office in the front of the administrative block . |
| 12 | And that er church school took us to the standard , at that time , called standard one , which was in a big school , about half a mile away and was built by the Nottingham Education Committee and was one of say , six or eight in the Nottingham area , I suppose . |
| 13 | When they had collected the papers from a shop on the wharf Tony took him to The Brigantine , a pub halfway up a steep , cobbled street . |
| 14 | On arrival at the farm Edward introduced her to the herdsman then went on to his house , promising to come back shortly . |
| 15 | His service in the Royal Artillery in the Second World War took him to the Middle East , and there he was able to develop his interest in military architecture through the study of the citadel at Damascus , and the siege of the crusader castle of Krak des Chevaliers . |
| 16 | The coroner , Harold Price , heard at Walthamstow Coroner 's Court in north-east London that baby Kim 's GP and health visitor referred her to the social services on the day she died , said it was vital that such referrals should be made as soon as possible . |
| 17 | At the end of the path another kissing gate brought you to the rough farm lane running past Milford House , owned by the Ware family , the Salisbury leather magnates . |
| 18 | In the winter of 1926–7 a power struggle brought it to the attention of the police . |
| 19 | His family situation led him to the inescapable conclusion that the world was a hostile , alien environment in which was concealed the terrible presence of death , and in which the hopes , convictions and aspirations of men could be dashed by the unforeseeable and irreversible consequences of a malevolent destiny . |
| 20 | They 'd just set foot back in the ship proper when the burst of machine gun fire rooted them to the spot . |
| 21 | ‘ Two years ago , Adai wanted more money for the AOL — and Earth Commander sent him to the colony under the Moon . |