Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A submarine took them to the island and the party made a successful landing in rubber boats . |
| 2 | A boat returned me to the little coral landing-strip ; Friendly Islands Airways took me down to Tongatapu ; and within half a day I was settled in a small hotel in Auckland , waiting for the weekly Cathay Pacific jet home . |
| 3 | She was still deep in thought when the sound of a car drew her to the window . |
| 4 | After it was all over there was another strange and thrilling event when a car whisked me to the News at Ten studios where I was interviewed by someone in Leeds . |
| 5 | As before , a guard accompanied me to the barracks ; but this time , on the way back , we met two officers : it was exactly what I had hoped for . |
| 6 | A waiter led her to the table she 'd booked downstairs , and left her to study the menu . |
| 7 | The curtain of rain caught them up and in a moment soaked them to the skin . |
| 8 | But he proved right about the size of Switham Thicket , for a bare quarter of a mile brought them to the outskirts of the other side , and almost immediately the horse was turned into a walled aperture of crumbling stone , its high , rusty iron gates wide open . |
| 9 | The scraping of a bolt recalled him to the issue in hand . |
| 10 | The teenager was walking through the grounds of Hospital yesterday evening , when a man pulled her to the ground and threatened her . |
| 11 | But the Cup defeat brought out the team 's fighting qualities , and a resurgence took them to the League Championship with 58 points , four ahead of Aston Villa , and with 118 goals . |
| 12 | I was engrossed in these thoughts and just about to drip it on the top of my head as I had seen Sally do when , from nowhere , a hand knocked me to the floor , spilling the contents of the bottle . |
| 13 | I did n't take it seriously until a holiday took me to the Blakeney area of north Norfolk in 1974 . |
| 14 | Firemen and a passer-by dragged him to the bank after cutting his trapped legs free from the canoe . |