Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After fulling , the cloth was well rinsed and , now reduced from 35″ to 27″ in width , was taken to the tenter ground to be stretched to shape by fastening hooks in the selvedge and attaching them to the tenter frames . |
| 2 | She whimpers as I twist a little harder and drag her to the cloakroom , to keep out of Merchant 's way . |
| 3 | She heard a muttered curse , she saw a shadow across the french window at the end of the room , she felt someone catch her round the waist and drag her to the ground . |
| 4 | First , take the legs and heave them up and over ; then grab the body by the arms or legs and drag it to the edge … no , that would n't be practicable , that way the killer would be moving backwards and be the first to fall . |
| 5 | The BTEC HND courses consistently and successfully attract students of a more practical than academic inclination , and develop them to the stage where their natural pragmatic talents have been enhanced with a rigorous regime of integrated business skills . |
| 6 | Right across the village , men and women stooped over , black forms against a world of white , shovelling great heaps of snow and tumbling them to the ground in frothy white cascades . |
| 7 | He gripped her wrist firmly and led her to a door . |
| 8 | He smiled at her , took her arm and led her to the window . |
| 9 | Alexander took her hand and led her to the door that led out on to the path that wound down towards the beach . |
| 10 | He took her arm and led her to the dining room , where the gleaming long rectangular table had been impeccably set for two . |
| 11 | He dumped his kitbag and led her to an armchair , but she clung to him in a state of possessive disbelief which upset Charles even more than the deep depression he 'd been suffering from when he entered the flat . |
| 12 | He gestured towards the table with an amiable smile and led them to the gate . |
| 13 | The count simply abandoned the small , expensive aircraft and led them to the car . |
| 14 | Despite the quality of mind which had won him his first-class honours degree and led him to a study of modern philosophical and psychological theory , he rode like a conqueror over the rules of logic and morality . |
| 15 | She took Mungo 's case , hung up his mac and led him to a fire as lively as the one in the waiting-room . |
| 16 | When Edward suggested ablutions first he grinned engagingly and led him to the bar . |
| 17 | And she took his hand and led him to the bed . |
| 18 | And it was not until Mrs Thackray 's tall , craggy fair-haired son had shouldered his luggage and led him to the top of St Jude 's Street that he had realized his peril . |
| 19 | He had a semi-hard-on the whole time he was bathing her , and without warning she grabbed him by it , and led him to the bath . |
| 20 | Tommy took him by the arm and led him to the chair . |
| 21 | ‘ Victor 's story is that she was willing , she undressed and led him to the bedroom . |
| 22 | Gebrec returned from putting the bus away and Bonard took him by the arm and led him to the terrace . |
| 23 | ‘ The warder came and told me to dress and led me to an officer of the court , ’ the small , self-effacing lawyer recalled in an interview on Saturday . |
| 24 | She frowned for a moment , then picked up my hand and led me to the window . |
| 25 | But he raised his left hand again , this time to silence me ; took my arm and led me to the edge of the colonnade . |
| 26 | Then when he 'd softened him up he would take him up to the sale and introduce him to the dealer he was touting for — on commission , of course . |
| 27 | go and take them to France and sell them to the French |
| 28 | Pop down to the beach and sell it to the pedlar ? ’ |
| 29 | Clinton ordered agencies with facilities that release toxic pollutants , including military bases and research laboratories , to develop a plan to reduce their output by half by 1999 , and to report them to the public as private companies are now required to do . |
| 30 | Some County Councils , notably West Sussex , already operate successful schemes of composting waste and reselling it to the public and surely Hertfordshire could do the same . |