Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On a personal note , in 1991 when the Board nominated me and the shareholders elected me to the chairmanship , I indicated that I would serve in this capacity for two years and oversee the rationalisation and turnaround of the Waterford and Wedgwood businesses . |
| 2 | After a dry tour , the brewery directed them to the local pub — which sells a RIVAL brew . |
| 3 | Well no the , the owner , the baker reported them to the police . |
| 4 | As all areas were initially classified as class I and II , the EPA left it to the states to redesignate some class II areas as class III , or even to upgrade such areas to class I ( Stern , 1977 ) . |
| 5 | Andrew Chubb , prosecuting , claimed Blissett elbowed Uzzell after the defender beat him to the ball and headed it away . |
| 6 | The President drove him to the station . ’ |
| 7 | The car took us to the Monument , and then we saw the Worm . ’ |
| 8 | Recently , the Queen invited me to the Windsor Horse show along with my little friend Mohammed Al Fayed , who has a shop in Knightsbridge , the name of which escapes me . |
| 9 | The gallery sent her to the guillotine after seeing the Mirror 's pictures of her South of France frolics with John Bryan . |
| 10 | He felt nothing as the angel bore him to the grave below , no pain as the solid granite drove shattered ribs deep into his lungs . |
| 11 | The end of the passage brought her to the head of the kitchen stairs the head of a mine-shaft . |
| 12 | These documents , the fitter sent them to the office . |
| 13 | The fitter sent them to the office , these documents . |
| 14 | The Eladeldi watched as the cop marched her to the end of the alley , where his double was waiting in the hover . |
| 15 | His reports on the collections brought him to the notice of the British scientific establishment and led to his appointment as naturalist in HMS Bulldog during a voyage under the command of Sir Leopold M ‘ Clintoch in 1860 to investigate a possible northern route for the proposed north Atlantic telegraph cable . |
| 16 | Runner jumped violently as Joe slapped him on his shoulder , but moved passively as the landlord helped him to the door . |
| 17 | With military-style precision , one gunman stayed to guard the man 's family , while the other took him to the Banque de France where at least four others were waiting . |
| 18 | One gunman stayed to guard the man 's family , while the other took him to the Banque de France in Toulon , France , where four others were waiting . |
| 19 | At least , she thought as the taxi carried her to the astrologer 's home , she had not had the ordeal of having to explain her bizarre decision to go out to Piers . |
| 20 | The taxi took her to the airport . |
| 21 | In a hill village to the south-west , the guide delivered her to the house of an Armenian priest who spoke passable French . |
| 22 | ‘ all had been agreed between the husband and the manager on the Friday , and … the manager left it to the husband to persuade the wife to come to the bank on the Monday to execute the charge and sign the guarantee . |
| 23 | I refused to apologise to the Speaker so the Serjeant-at-arms hustled me to the Tower . |
| 24 | The inspector accompanied her to the door and closed it carefully after her . |
| 25 | Ellen had gone to her one-room apartment in town while Thessy was reading his Bible in the main-cabin , so I heated myself some baked beans in Wavebreaker 's microwave , spread them on buttered toast , soaked them in brown sauce , then ate a morose supper on deck until the bugs drove me to the screened sanctuary of the staterooms below . |
| 26 | The feeling bound her to the household , just as her own actions now bound her to the nigger , and the two things were tied together yet so opposite they were pulling her apart . |
| 27 | The adjutant directed him to the hospital next door , giving him written instructions on how to find the ward . |
| 28 | Park Court , which houses Hilda 's flat , was at one time an outhouse for a local manor , but in 1931 the owner left it to the local council who then converted it into a fire station . |
| 29 | The colonel introduced him to the Doctor . |
| 30 | In April 1860 the Minister of Internal Affairs presented " Temporary Rules on District Land Offices " to the State Council , but in June the tsar returned them to the ministry to await the preparation of a Statute on Provincial Institutions . |