Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Penda had taken Eadfrith , son of Eadwine , into Mercia with him after the battle of Hatfield , possibly with the intention of restoring him one day in Deira as a dependent ruler , but perhaps ill-advisedly put him to death during the reign of Oswald ( HE 11 , 20 ) — though conceivably prevailed upon to do so by Oswald . |
| 2 | They invited her to the station , gave her a meal , arranged her flight home then drove her to Manchester Airport . |
| 3 | David Poole , who was to play the leading soldier , told me that ‘ I thought sometimes he worked out his ideas for ballets on his puppets , then simply transferred them to people ’ . |
| 4 | Adam Gopnik actually once compared him to William Blake , saying Steinberg could , like Blake , ‘ make the life of the mind visible … take metaphors and abstract ideas and turn them into drawings . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ She very kindly invited me to lunch and she has given me a lot of useful information . ’ |