Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] to [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only that she 's bringing them back to my house , you know what I mean ? |
| 2 | ‘ You , nervous ! ’ she scoffed , and did n't resist when he took her in his arms , cradling her close to his heart . |
| 3 | Her smile slowly broadened , then , without warning , she launched herself at him , knocking him on to his back , her kisses overwhelming him . |
| 4 | Bowing down everything and driving it back to its cave . |
| 5 | We 're just a few miles away from the Meadowses ’ place , ’ he added , reaching forward to extract a map from the glove compartment , and tossing it on to her lap . |
| 6 | Then , unexpectedly , he reached up and covered her hand with his own , pressing it firmly to his shoulder . |
| 7 | When they reach their destination , the driver stops the car beneath a rare working streetlamp and his passenger feels a tremor of recognition , but is reassured by Valentin that he has heard all the jokes before and he wo n't be passing them on to his mother . |
| 8 | She gave him no more than a perfunctory ‘ So glad you could come , ’ before passing him on to her husband . |
| 9 | At this moment he will be getting ready to take Ana out for a meal and the theatre , then he will be escorting her back to her hotel — and Maria . ’ |
| 10 | Is he fetching it round to your house or |
| 11 | Was there no thought of sending him back to his father ? ’ |
| 12 | She would imagine calling him up to her room every night before he went home to bed with a man , and taking her silver hairbrush from her desk and brushing his hair out like a daughter 's , one hundred strokes every night . |
| 13 | Henry sent envoy after envoy to Richard in the hope of calling him back to his side , but not even when he used an ambassador as distinguished as the Archbishop of Canterbury was his son to be persuaded . |
| 14 | The assistant began banging his calculator on the ground and holding it up to his ear |
| 15 | He let go of Leila who rubbed her wrist , holding it close to her chest . |
| 16 | Holding it close to his face between two big hands , speaking to the picture , he said , ‘ Sweet child . |
| 17 | ‘ And I 'd be asking you back to my place for coffee . ’ |
| 18 | Unsure of whether she does owe him an explanation , of how much of her perspective she can get across in a conversation , and unwilling to let go of the London Kate who has broken through to the surface , she is ashamed of her suspicions of his reasons for asking her back to his place and agrees . |
| 19 | He slid the table into the centre of the room , tipping it on to its side , and dragged over the couch with Mariana still on it , so that the furniture formed a fort . |
| 20 | She was packing his stuff and I was bringing him upstairs to his room like away from her like . |
| 21 | He clambered up and intercepted her at the kitchen door , enfolding her and drawing her in to his body so that his warmth flowed through to her , just as he had that day when he 'd found her on the beach , lost and afraid ; like him , a victim of the past . |
| 22 | ‘ And you did very successfully , until your mother saddled you with taking me back to my hotel . ’ |
| 23 | Finishing her coffee , she collected some leaflets from the hall table , and , with the intention of taking them up to her room to read , returned to the lounge to say goodnight — a plan instantly foiled by Feargal 's mother , who seemed to have shed her vagueness , along with her daughter , who had disappeared , and patted the seat beside her in silent invitation . |
| 24 | After towing them back to their ship we were friends for life and the word soon went round the fleet . |
| 25 | Every Christmas Day he arrived with two bottles of wine , handing them proudly to my sister . |
| 26 | I 've got a funny feeling I 'm not inviting you round to my house ! |
| 27 | His lips were doing wonderful things to one of her ears and she heard him swallow , then rasp , ‘ I 'm taking you upstairs to my room . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm taking you back to my flat , not the Embassy . |
| 29 | Ven nodded , ‘ When I got back from taking you back to your hotel that Monday , I instructed him to bring me all correspondence to and from Verity magazine . |
| 30 | Of course Alison was not ‘ living in ’ the house , but was often there visiting Patrick ( her help as a nurse was no longer required ) , joining Jack in his studio ( where she talked with him about his work ) , or chatting with him and Franca in the drawing room or kitchen before departing with Jack to a restaurant and taking him on to her flat for the night . |