Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] to [art] " in BNC.

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1 Sponsors of each of the ten identical yachts have had to come up with a £220,000 entry fee to get them to the start line in September .
2 On our way home via New York , some ‘ dear ’ friends ( as in generous ) , fixed us a stretch limo to take us to the airport .
3 A taxi service is always available at the Transport Interchange to take you to the University .
4 Sir David Wilson , in his annual address to the Legislative Council in October 1989 announced that the government was to embark upon a £10,000 million development project to build a new airport , to expand its container port facilities and to construct extensive transport links to connect them to the urban and industrial areas .
5 Newman told the cab driver to take them to the Brussels Hilton .
6 He said : ‘ Maurin asked the taxi driver to take him to the museum yesterday .
7 I once asked a taxi driver to take me to the Glasgow Herald offices whither I was to hand in my weekly scribblings .
8 To get there just ask any taxi driver to take you to the public beach near the village of Hell .
9 Bobbie asked the Station Master to give it to the old gentleman the next morning .
10 Matthew made his excuses , nipped to the loo , produced the goods , packaged the container and summoned a bike messenger to deliver it to the clinic — ‘ at which point , I returned to my presentation , looking more than slightly flushed .
11 But it needs either deep inside knowledge , or real writing skills to take it to a higher plane .
12 During 1941 Hillary persuaded the Air Ministry to send him to the United States on a speaking tour .
13 The beauty of this method is that it is not only fascinating but incredibly cheap and will not need large capital expenditure to put it to the test .
14 What we were doing was a half-hour walkabout to accustom us to the feel of the birds .
15 Since 1984 the Justice Department has had authority to prosecute terrorists who attack Americans abroad , but the FBI has had to request permission from the host countries to return them to the US .
16 Wright has not played for England since the European Championship game against Holland 18 months ago but Robson has been sufficiently impressed by his League form to recall him to the squad .
17 Both potting department sides beat teams from the dipping house and glost warehouse in a league table to make it to the final .
18 This device consists of a corrosion-proof , non-toxic probe which sits in the tank water , and a two metre cable to connect it to an earth point , in your cable tidy or elsewhere .
19 He stalked off to find the airport bus to take them to the SNCF railway station at Roissy , leaving Matchsticks to struggle after him as best he could .
20 They waited in her suite at the Richemond for the hire car to take them to the airport .
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