Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jim became team captain in succession to Ian in October 1977 and led us up to Division One in 1978–79 as 2nd Division champions , then to the top of the Football League on 29 September 1979 , scoring as spectacular a goal in our 4–1 trouncing of Ipswich Town as any football follower could ever hope to witness . |
| 2 | She read it twice and passed it over to Roman . |
| 3 | Well , I just told Ruth not to be a silly girl and got him off to Nurse . |
| 4 | I took this bandage off and put a cold compress on , making a proper patella dressing , got the ambulance and got him off to hospital , and put in a Report about this broken gas-lid . |
| 5 | Indeed , she was conscious of good fortune in having at last got a council flat in Southwark , and in having good neighbours in the flat across the landing who saw that her children — a boy of nine and a girl of seven — ate their breakfast , and got them off to school . |
| 6 | Then I picked up a pebble and flung it out to sea ; it rose straight up into the air and landed on the ground a few yards behind me . |
| 7 | However , if Ross had been suffering from boredom , he managed to hide the fact very well when , only a few days later , he contacted her at the small London flat she was temporarily sharing with some friends from university , and invited her out to dinner . |
| 8 | At the New Contemporaries Exhibition in 1961 he and his wife bought Hockney 's Doll Boy for £40 and invited him round to tea — ‘ black hair , crew-cut , frightfully shy , I arrived late . |
| 9 | A council inspector was called in to test the beer at the club in Bury St Edmunds , Suffolk … and found it up to strength . |
| 10 | As Armstrong was riding homewards along the river bank at the end of the session , a group of English horsemen set off in pursuit , captured him , and bore him off to imprisonment in Carlisle castle . |
| 11 | They sucked it and licked it down to size . |
| 12 | They caught up with the truck and followed it back to camp . |
| 13 | Jay grinned ear to ear , commiserated and ordered him back to bed . |
| 14 | First she was terrified there was a burglar , then when she 'd searched the house from top to bottom she got mad and shoved me back to bed . |
| 15 | I therefore took with us Ergay , one of our zabanias , selected a place to sleep under an overhanging rock and sent him back to camp to bring Birru in the evening with a mule , blankets and food . |
| 16 | He says did n't realise it was so serious and sent him back to class with an ice pack . |
| 17 | Every station sent in the reports in code and we collected them and sent them on to Bomber Command Headquarters . |
| 18 | I made a short story of the business and sent it up to Encounter , but the puritanical buggers in charge sent me a rejection slip ! |
| 19 | Hurrying back to the town , they applied restoratives and brought her back to consciousness . |
| 20 | The field ambulance minibus ran the boys down into town , and brought them back to camp in hourly shuttles until 0300 hours . |
| 21 | ‘ As you can see , I 've simplified it and brought it up to date … |
| 22 | After a while he made tea and brought it back to bed and they talked in a way she never could have with Mike , or anyone she knew , about Garstang 's book on the songs of birds and about Haydn 's Bird Quartet and Wagner 's bird music in Siegfried . |
| 23 | She made the coffee and brought it back to bed — a compromise . |
| 24 | In the end , she made herself a drink of hot milk with a dash of brandy and took it up to bed , taking along the hot water bottle for good measure . |
| 25 | Lady Rous , of Rous Lench , Worcestershire , a godly woman and a supporter of Baxter , hearing of his illness , sent for him and nursed him back to health . |
| 26 | Where , I gather , Dhani put him in a Buddhist monastery and nursed him back to health — he 'd known Dhani at school and Cambridge . |
| 27 | And nursed him back to health and whatnot . |
| 28 | It was ill , and she brought it in and nursed it back to health . |
| 29 | I change the incontinence pad and put her back to bed . |
| 30 | He was reaching-for the blue directory when Anne came back with Abigail in her arms , so Adam took her and carried her back to bed himself and tucked her in and kissed her . |