Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bride , who fell in love with the former lecturer , as she helped nurse him back to health after his four-year ordeal as a captive , was radiant in a full-length , ivory raw silk dress , with a slit up the side . |
| 2 | They also insisted that they would blow up the mines if Ceauşescu tried to force them back to work . |
| 3 | I tried to force her back to bed , but her fever made her surprisingly strong . |
| 4 | Kenna — full of hope — tried to bring him back to life by applying the magic wild herb known as moly , but the moment the juice touched the body it was turned into a snowdrop . ’ |
| 5 | She had given up work to have the children and she 'd seen them through to school age , when she 'd gone out and found herself another job . |
| 6 | He 'd taken her out to dinner that very night , and now seemed to be practically haunting the place , and obviously very much in love with her friend . |
| 7 | I had called Professor Ruiperez from my hostal , and at once he came to take me out to lunch at an expensive restaurant featuring all the local dishes , including a hearty paella and fine Rioja wines . |
| 8 | She replied inviting me round to tea at her little flat in Chelsea . |
| 9 | D'Arcy hated to bring him down to earth , but it had to be done . |
| 10 | He seized the demented man round the shoulders and began to drag him back to safety . |
| 11 | it was at this crisis point that the tour management decided to send him back to school — to Alf Gover 's famous establishment for an intensive three-day course . |
| 12 | He stayed with Palace , totted up 180 league appearances and tried all he knew to get us back to Division Two . |
| 13 | Then he wrote to Mike for more ‘ counselling ’ , whereupon Mike offered to coach him back to fitness — on the telephone . |
| 14 | She had had him in to hospital . |
| 15 | They had tied her up to attention , with many a sniggering jest : They had bound a musket beside her , with the parrel beneath her breast ! |
| 16 | I had to tag him on to group deals as a makeweight — you know , like the contract I did for twelve of my players with UK Airlines . |
| 17 | But Chris — Chris had brought him back to life . |
| 18 | At eighteen , in love with love , she 'd accepted his ring and walked on air until common sense had brought her down to earth and made her realise that marriage to him would be a total disaster . |
| 19 | Only this afternoon , one of the Maison 's new fabric suppliers had asked her out to dinner and made it perfectly plain that he found her attractive . |
| 20 | His frequent visits to North Korea since 1971 had kept him up to date with the progress of the reconstruction of Pyongyang under the Kims , father and son . |
| 21 | I wanted to carry you off to bed and make love to you . ’ |
| 22 | He was a bright child ; my father intended to send him off to school properly when the time came , and had already started him learning the alphabet . |
| 23 | When she learned — shock , horror , dismay ! — that he wanted to take me out to dinner she had the brass nerve to call me ‘ a Jezebel ’ ! |