Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , deciding she was no political , just another stroppy trucker , they 'd handed her over to the locals , which was a big relief . |
| 2 | Sparta had taken Delphi out of Phokian control ; Athens intervened to give it back to the Phokians , and that was that . |
| 3 | I 'd worked it out to the last breath . |
| 4 | He had n't meant to say it , but it was the effect of the beer and the movement of the ship and her sophistication , all things he could n't cope with together , so he 'd taken her down to the bar and they 'd had a couple more drinks to restore his confidence before the boat docked . |
| 5 | A while later , when she was finished and dressed and sitting alone , Charlie came to take her out to the taxi . |
| 6 | When special buses provided by the universities arrived to take them back to the campuses , most took up the offer . |
| 7 | Ellen screamed and was instantly seized by the other man , who , laughing at her wild struggles , began to force her down to the floor . |
| 8 | He threatened to hand her over to the police if she had any more of it . |
| 9 | Since Tixier-Vignancour did not actually have any questions to ask him he decided to bluff it out to the end . |
| 10 | They went for him then , Alexander and Donald McLaggan , the Duke 's two sons , dragged him from his father 's side so that his head bounced on the steps , lifted him bleeding , like foresters keeping a dying deer clear of the hounds , and started to carry him down to the river ‘ just to cool him off ’ but Cameron ran and gripped Donald 's shoulder and shouted , ‘ If you injure an officer it is treason on top of sedition , ’ so they carried him back and laid him carefully at his father 's feet . |
| 11 | Then they started calling her back to the bridge game . |
| 12 | Then the officials decided to transfer him back to the Los Angeles County Jail . |
| 13 | ‘ Mmm , that 's what I thought , so I decided to take you back to the house to eat . ’ |
| 14 | In June of that year a group of armed men rounded up some of the teachers and started to take them down to the principal 's house . |
| 15 | On the third evening , I was sitting drinking alone and started talking to a man who offered to walk me back to the hotel . |
| 16 | She had never before contacted any of the emergency services , and she was surprised by how long the operator took to put her through to the police . |
| 17 | Well when you collected the dues er it meant taking it up to the office every Monday and when you got up to the office and got talking to the officials and such like the interest became greater and er it developed from there that er the workers of thought they should have er should have a representative on the committee . |
| 18 | They offered to take her down to the sea , so off they went — accompanied by the Dares ' three dogs , hideous mongrels with hearts of gold . |
| 19 | He took us out in his boat a couple of times , and he offered to take us over to the Treshnish Isles , but the forecast was n't too good , so we never made it . |
| 20 | Thankfully there were no injuries and he and Ave Barlow managed to make it down to the best of the mountain safely . |
| 21 | ‘ It took me three attempts to land the fish but eventually I managed to bring it in to the bank and my mate Paul scooped the net under it . |
| 22 | When we finally did make it back to the ground , palpitating and soaked with sweat , there was no sign of Ranteallo , and much of the crowd had already dispersed on its way back to the Rante . |
| 23 | Lucy was left to kick around by the unmanned Reservations desk for a couple of minutes , and then a waiter appeared to lead her over to the table . |
| 24 | That really did take us back to the good old days . |
| 25 | Like Croydon , Penge U.D.C. had the right to purchase its tramways in each seventh year on granting six months ' notice , but if it did , it had to lease them back to the Company . |
| 26 | There were hundreds of screaming women outside and we had to whisk him down to the underground car park and shut the gates behind him . |
| 27 | From the beginning of their history , the amphibians were hunters , preying on the worms , insects and other invertebrates that had preceded them on to the land . |
| 28 | Someone had thus moved the body , and it had to be assumed that it was the same person who had pushed her on to the plough . |
| 29 | They had to forward it up to the Pentagon . |
| 30 | You had to sell it back to the council . |