Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [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 | And sometimes dad used to take us down to Serenity , to see the ships . |
26 | By the time we reached Llanberis it was touch and go whether we would make it back to base at all that night . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 . |