Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glenn Hoddle got them to the Premier league … maybe Keith Scott can keep them there ! |
| 2 | A contemporary writer from Lika compared it to the Mongol invasions and the depredations of the Goths and Attila the Hun . |
| 3 | By the late 1980s the CPSU itself accepted , as Gorbachev put it to the 27th Party Congress , that no single party could have a ‘ monopoly of truth ’ and that the movement as a whole would not normally be unanimous on all the issues it confronted . |
| 4 | When they drew apart at last Travis carried her to the nearest armchair , cradling her across his lap . |
| 5 | Woolley chased him to the nearest bomb-crater . |
| 6 | But my heart was not in insurance , and when Fred Workman recalled me to the editorial offices I rushed back to my old love . |
| 7 | ‘ At the Brisbane Hotel dinner , Jimmy Conn treated them to the full Address to the Haggis , splendidly translated by interpreter Pru Williams . ’ |
| 8 | David Frost put it to the right hon. and learned Gentleman no less than three times that it would be an unfair burden on many people who are not rich if he were to carry out immediately his proposed taxation arrangements to pay for Beckett 's law — the abolition of the upper earnings limit for national insurance contributions and the 50 per cent . |
| 9 | The vicar of St Giles introduced him to the little religious group called the Oratory of the Good Shepherd , and one of those priests , Gordon Day , became a friend of Ramsey and adviser in religion . |
| 10 | Endill followed her to the sick bay . |
| 11 | Julia followed her to the private bed-sitting room , where her child was happily playing in his cot . |
| 12 | Lily saw him to the front door . |
| 13 | This hatred and distrust was fuelled when Arthur Kitson of Kitson Empire Lighting Company in Stamford introduced him to the famous anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion , which claimed that the Jews were about to take over the world ( an example of modern mythologising for political purposes ) . |
| 14 | Owen accompanied them to the front entrance himself . |
| 15 | It was just coming up to three o'clock when the taxi dropped them off in the old town square and Ven guided her to the old town hall where , with barely a minute to go before the run-through of the astronomical clock , Fabia stood in rapt attention . |
| 16 | Uncle Joe subjected me to the same torture and humiliation every time we were alone together — although , thankfully , he never actually went as far as raping me . |
| 17 | Betty Hawkes took her to the local hop that evening , where they danced to the strict tempo of Victor Sylvester records : a very different world to the music of Miller and Goodman and Basie that she 'd jived to in the States . |
| 18 | Regular correspondence with the revered minimalist La Monte Young introduced him to the Dadaist movement Fluxus , but by the time he had won a Leonard Bernstein scholarship to the Berkshire School of Music in Massachusetts , ‘ I felt I 'd run my course as far as the avant-garde was concerned ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , we 've had such a marvellous day , Uncle Albert took us to the Marine Museum and then we went on to collect sea-shells ourselves , he knew where to go for them , we found hundreds ; and we had a lobster picnic . |
| 20 | Crilly took me to the old town once ; it was a sooty place just north of the city , bordered by cakey cliffs and a greasy sliver of sea and a forlorn lighthouse jutting into the grey Irish sky , flashing blurry and red through the low clouds , omitting a lackadaisical moo only from time to time . |
| 21 | So we went to the locker-room of Portmarnock and Peter introduced me to the great Arnold Palmer . |
| 22 | Of the leading English contenders , Peter Marshall , Chris Walker and Del Harris made it to the last 16 . |
| 23 | Persistent rain prevented a resumption until 5pm on Saturday and a single by Hick off Winston Benjamin took him to the 20,000 mark . |
| 24 | Fox arrived with an assistant and Wycliffe took him to the vandalized room . |
| 25 | After he had been withdrawn or expelled from St John 's College , Grace sent him to the local government school , Highlands North . |
| 26 | Hereford left it to the bitter end to secure their 1-1 draw . |
| 27 | And on Saturday , in the rain at Newmarket , Jeremy Glover savoured it to the full . |
| 28 | Comfort piloted her to the nearest seat and hailed the waiter to order a brandy . |
| 29 | Originally stolen by a wizard from a DRAGON 's cave , the Emperor Charlemagne gave it to the four sons of Aymon . |
| 30 | Harriet drove her to the local hospital as soon as the pains started in mid-afternoon and , knowing how hazardous the road back in the dark could be at this time of the year , brought an overnight bag so that she could stay at a nearby hotel . |