Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dress your hair in the way I intended , put on my pearl necklace and — ’ Anne drew off her gold ring and carelessly dropped it on to the coverlet ‘ — my wedding-ring . |
| 2 | Theodora gently steered him back to the house and set him in a deckchair on the south-facing terrace . |
| 3 | In the latest they were called to the home of a man in his early 20s in Frenchgate , Richmond , but found they needed more equipment so took him back to the Richmond Fire Station and released the cuffs with a hacksaw and vice . |
| 4 | The paramedics eventually drove me uptown to the scene of the accident . |
| 5 | I mean I did not need to stay on at school or get my B.A. at Strathclyde to know when not to F or C. Fuck-me shoes , I just handed them back to the saleslady with as much dignity as I could muster and says , thanks but no thanks , I do n't know when I 'd ever have the occasion to werr them . |
| 6 | You should take it in but you did n't — just rolled it on to the next beat . |
| 7 | When the great man was exiled to Elba the diamond was returned to his father-in-law , Francis I of Austria , who duly handed it back to the French authorities . |
| 8 | They , no doubt confused beyond belief , gratefully passed him on to the Americans |
| 9 | WHEN THE Romans built Ermine Street , their great road from the south coast to the Humber , they deliberately aligned it close to the ancient university town of Stamford , then called Doorebriff At this strategic river crossing they established a town called Durobrivae , from which the Saxon word ‘ Welland ’ later derived , meaning ‘ raging , boiling , bubbling . |
| 10 | The strange , wild feeling that usually drove her down to the sea was beginning to thump in her bosom . |
| 11 | He then slowly pulled out some bank notes and furtively handed them over to the large man , who patted him on the back and quickly got off at the next station . |
| 12 | A cow once kicked me nearly to the other end of the byre and as I picked myself up the farmer said unemotionally , " Aye , she 's allus had a habit o' that . " |
| 13 | Erm I mean kids can do , of a similar age , can do enormously abusive things to each-other in which case it 's often thought of as things like bulling or erm or or something like that y'know I mean for example I know somebody who attende was educated at Rugby and you know he was he was buggered silly by the other boys who also wired him up to the mains and stuck billiard cues up his bum and all sort of things . |
| 14 | Vologsky punched out a sequence on the computer panel , which automatically locked him in to the local frequency . |
| 15 | He even invited us round to the house one night , to give me a loan of a book on the Gothic Imagination . |
| 16 | He even took him down to the cellars to see the lights and the point for a plug there . |
| 17 | Some woman turned up on his doorstep and simply swept him off to the county cricket ground in Taunton in her car . ’ |
| 18 | He then led them back to the safety of the Allied trenches . |
| 19 | Through that we obtained a middle generation , who then passed us on to the older generation of the family . |
| 20 | Members of the Jafaar clan and other DEA couriers would arrive at Larnaca with suitcases full of high-grade heroin , white and crystal , and be met off the boat from the Christian-controlled port of Jounieh by officers of the Cypriot Police Narcotics Squad , who then drove them up to the Eurame office in Nicosia . |
| 21 | He then threw them on to the ground in the tinder-dry hay loft without putting them out properly , it is alleged . |
| 22 | He then ordered her back to the living room where he tried to rape her twice without success . |
| 23 | Dyson swung the wheel to the left , then swung it sharply to the right again to avoid a lorry which was overtaking him on the inside . |
| 24 | Ellwood spun him a dozen more times , then released him on to the sofa . |
| 25 | I threw some of the water from the bowl over my own face and drank the rest for I was thirsty , then followed him down to the Great Hall . |
| 26 | I helped to milk the cows and then took them out to the field . |
| 27 | They struggled up the steps , through the entrance hall , rested in the main hall , then took him up to the first floor . |
| 28 | Mrs Sowerberry watched him in silent horror , already thinking about her future food bills , then took him upstairs to the shop . |
| 29 | It was , however , after Palace had acquired Cliff Holton and Dickie Dowsett that we saw Allen at his vintage best , spraying the passes and plying the crosses from which those big fellows scored the goals which first of all kept us in Division Three , and then took us up to the 2nd Division in 1963–64 . |
| 30 | The theory is that the type of population mixing which took place on oil installations spread that agent among oil workers who then took it back to the areas in which they lived . |