Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [vb past] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you start doing a passenger service when you got the mail contract or did you to the mail just on its own first or did you |
| 2 | ‘ So , ’ he was saying to the Prince 's chauffeur as Owen arrived , ‘ you picked the two girls up from the salon and took them to the river at Beni Suef ? ’ |
| 3 | The man then grabbed her around the neck and forced her to the ground . |
| 4 | She made him a sandwich and brought it to the table . |
| 5 | He lifted out a white silk blouse trimmed with fine lace , felt the fabric and handed it to the sales assistant who stood behind them . |
| 6 | Members of the Colchester Colne Round Table Club collected the party of eight-to-12-year-olds from the Greenstead estate by minibus and took them to the Wilson Marriage Centre in Barrack Street . |
| 7 | Following her instructions to the letter , I took the centre stitch and transferred it to the adjacent needle . |
| 8 | When I got ashore I stole a small fishing boat and sailed it to the Delta . |
| 9 | At 7.00 next morning he placed the basin in his tin and handed it to the attendant , who put it in the hot cupboard . |
| 10 | Fired by an intensely feminine and creative energy , she was spotted as a teenager by her first impresario , who snapped her up off the streets where she had been making her living and introduced her to the torrid cabaret life of the French capital . |
| 11 | Myeloski produced his warrant-card and showed it to the doctor . |
| 12 | The policeman noted the registration number of the vehicle and passed it to the Kos police dealing with the investigation . |
| 13 | Fifteen years earlier Philip 's troops had attacked his father 's village and razed it to the ground , wiping out in one night Eudo 's brothers and sisters , as well as his young wife and child . |
| 14 | She went to the Labour Bureau and the clerk there told her that she would be passed fit for clerical work and sent her to the Ministry of Defence Office . |
| 15 | By 1840 , Chalk 's son owned the mill and leased it to the cloth manufacturing partnership of Samuel Francis and A.M. Flint , who remained there until 1853 . |
| 16 | They drew up a detailed proposal and submitted it to the Basic Energy Research Programme of the DOE ( Department of Energy ) in Washington DC , which has it dated ‘ 23 August ’ . |
| 17 | And then the bought the drill hall and turned it into the public hall and presented it to the island . |
| 18 | He caught me around the waist and flung me to the floor . |
| 19 | He had come up from the bottom and made it to the top : no one was to forget that he was at the top and everyone was supposed to forget where he had come from and how he had got where he was . |
| 20 | Troopers lifted the throne from its staging and passed it to the waiting hands below . |
| 21 | As I took my place in the darkened centre stage for the opening of the first act , and the lights slowly came up , I saw a sight which I 've never seen before , a sight which chilled me to the marrow and froze me to the spot . |
| 22 | PCs Thomas McGrath , 45 , and John Milliken , 54 , chased their victim into an alleyway and battered him to the ground . |
| 23 | He received Mark in the central lobby and took him to the Members ' tea room for a chat over a pot of tea . |
| 24 | She looked at herself , practised an attitude , widening her eyes and sucking in her cheeks , then another , chin up , head to one side , Madonna-like in pious ecstasy , then shaking her head to dismiss the bridal vision she had attempted , plucked the lace mat from her hair and added it to the pile with the others she had finished . |
| 25 | She got hold of him by the hair and dragged him to the police station , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Juliette picked up the tray of crockery and carried it to the dishwasher . |
| 27 | I took the collar off , removed the stones , put the rest in the sack and took it to the gibbet . |
| 28 | Athelstan refilled the goblet and held it to the coroner 's lips . |
| 29 | Then he hit the old man violently with the stick and knocked him to the ground . |
| 30 | ‘ Mr Hyde hit the old man violently with the stick and knocked him to the ground . ’ |