Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [pers pn] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Progress over the next two months or so should take me back to climbing . |
| 2 | A suggestion that he should take her out to lunch , instead , did n't , surprisingly , fall flat . |
| 3 | ‘ Hey Rico , maybe I should put him back to bed , huh ? ’ |
| 4 | Well I think you should put him out to work ! |
| 5 | ‘ You must put it down to jet lag and worry over my sister ; I 'm not usually so easily fooled . ’ |
| 6 | We 'll bring you up to date at 5.40pm . |
| 7 | Give Ellis a ring before lunch-time and he 'll bring you up to date . |
| 8 | We 'll bring you up to date on the situation later in the programme . |
| 9 | ‘ Listen , Tippy , I 'll give you enough to tide you over . |
| 10 | ‘ Right , I 'll start doing something about supper now , but I 'll carry you back to bed first . ’ |
| 11 | We 'll force him down to Dane End or Watton . ’ |
| 12 | She hoped very much to meet someone this morning , Dorothea perhaps , or Alida Thorne , or Mrs Bottingley , wife of the Rector , for they might invite her home to coffee and she could confide in them . |
| 13 | Occasionally he 'll take her out to lunch . |
| 14 | Look , I 'll take you back to bed again and you try to get some sleep . |
| 15 | ‘ All right , I 'll take you out to lunch one day . ’ |
| 16 | Laugh , Kate , and I 'll take you out to supper at this amusing little noodle shop I 've discovered in Chinatown . |
| 17 | Write out a cheque and we 'll take it back to town . |
| 18 | When he took Nicandra 's plate away he held it for Maman to see , hoping perhaps that a little annoyance might irritate her back to liveliness . |
| 19 | If there is an outstanding success , he 'll get them on to television and into the national press . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll get it off to Century at once . ’ |
| 21 | Well I 'd prefer him not to go but |
| 22 | Aye cos if it was like family you could lay it on to family easier than you could lay it on to somebody |
| 23 | TO be fair , you could put it down to jet lag and a 12-hour flight . |
| 24 | Ruth wanted to turn and plunge away , to strike out blindly through the water ; but Adam kept hold of her , and she knew the coast here was treacherous — even at full tide there were currents that could sweep you out to sea . |
| 25 | By the time we reached Llanberis it was touch and go whether we would make it back to base at all that night . |
| 26 | However , the success of the Inuit is based far more on dressing , housing and feeding themselves as well as possible , and avoiding risks that would expose them unduly to cold . |
| 27 | He started to smile , teasing me , and for the second time I was convinced that someone would flourish it back to existence , that it was all only a game . |
| 28 | Thousands of students , particularly from Beijing , were sent to undertake ‘ social practice ’ during the summer vacation in the hope that contact With ‘ real life ’ would bring them down to earth and give them a more realistic assessment of society . |
| 29 | It is possible that non-producers with quota could seek the service of brokers who would keep them up to date with supply and demand trends on the short-term leasing market . |
| 30 | The air was amazingly clear , as it often is after a wet day , and as they climbed the hill which would take them back to Pinehurst they could see , far ahead , the lights of several villages and one big town . |