Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] me to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unremitting four-mile ascent to the high pass over the ridge reduced me to a walking wet rag ; I was literally soaked to the skin and could feel rivulets chasing each other down my bosom . |
| 2 | ‘ On a personal note , in 1991 when the Board nominated me and the shareholders elected me to the chairmanship , I indicated that I would serve in this capacity for two years and oversee the rationalisation and turnaround of the Waterford and Wedgwood businesses . |
| 3 | On the day before de Macon sailed on his second voyage , the Ralembergs invited me to a formal supper . |
| 4 | Nothing that I have read about the case leads me to the conclusion that anything untoward happened or that the basic and important principle of the GP 's right to refer has been undermined . |
| 5 | Despite this , my parents found the wherewithal to send me to a cheap fee-paying dayschool . |
| 6 | ‘ The Open College of the Arts encouraged me to a course in music using electronic keyboards and things took off after that . ’ |
| 7 | Recently , the Queen invited me to the Windsor Horse show along with my little friend Mohammed Al Fayed , who has a shop in Knightsbridge , the name of which escapes me . |
| 8 | I knew they would follow me quickly so I told the spaceship to take me to a very quiet part of the Galaxy , a long way from any planets with people on . |
| 9 | He and the policeman took me to a lift and we went down many floors . |
| 10 | I refused to apologise to the Speaker so the Serjeant-at-arms hustled me to the Tower . |
| 11 | Ellen had gone to her one-room apartment in town while Thessy was reading his Bible in the main-cabin , so I heated myself some baked beans in Wavebreaker 's microwave , spread them on buttered toast , soaked them in brown sauce , then ate a morose supper on deck until the bugs drove me to the screened sanctuary of the staterooms below . |
| 12 | Morning by morning in my regular reading , which at the time was in the Song of Songs , I heard the Lord calling me to a new stage in ministry . |
| 13 | They stood to the side as I entered then the woman showed me to a chair as the man brought two glasses and placed them on the table in front of me , then said very seriously , ‘ This is my wife . |
| 14 | The friends accompany me to the jetty . |
| 15 | The day after I finished working for the managing director of a certain company fighting off a take-over bid , the agency sent me to the rival company . ’ |
| 16 | That day I was lucky , and the sea carried me to the shore . |
| 17 | And I 'm really proud that the men in the tank recommended me to the jailers to be the trusty . |