Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next he led the spinnaker sheets aft to the cockpit and made them fast to the stern cleats with plenty of slack . |
| 2 | Images of food drew it onwards to the tall , detached house at the end of the street ; thoughts of petting and cuddling from its playful , pleasant owners made it scamper through the shadows . |
| 3 | Anger enabled her to see clearly now and drove her straight to the relevant point , eschewing futile denials . |
| 4 | Taxi driver Alan Macdonald was so enraged by Linda 's story that he drove her straight to the Daily Mirror . |
| 5 | Gesner beckoned her forward to the open car window . |
| 6 | But in Anselm 's eyes , her wearing of the veil bound her irretrievably to the monastic life : to draw back now was to take the road to damnation . |
| 7 | Michael took the case from him and led him away to the hired car . |
| 8 | But a bridge ( ‘ Residents Only ’ ) led him across to the main channel of the Cherwell , where the water was still flowing fairly swiftly after the week 's earlier rains , and where pieces of debris were intermittently knocking into the sides of the banks , and then turning and twisting , first one way then the other , like dodgem cars at the fun-fair . |
| 9 | We stood eyeing each other for a few minutes and then to my amazement a jeep came up ; the farmer saw my problem and not only gave me a lift past the bull but took me right to the main road where the bike was . |
| 10 | Kalchu took it downstairs to the stable twice a day when he milked the mother . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Donita attributed it directly to the feminist line : ‘ Because this is the first generation that 's grown up with the women 's revolution . |
| 13 | In the early 1980s , the editorial board of the Morning Star adopted a philosophy which allied it closely to the Soviet Union . |
| 14 | I gave it away to the wrong person . |
| 15 | 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 . " |
| 16 | They faxed it , I T N faxed it just to the Big Breakfast . |