Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because frictional drag ( from a boot or a ski , say ) melts them locally to a thin film of liquid water . |
| 2 | With marked reluctance , the elderly woman led them inside to a small sitting-room , which overlooked the garden at the rear of the house . |
| 3 | I picked up my briefcase , started out the door and asked the FBI agent on the case to see me downstairs to a cab because I did n't feel very safe in Chicago . |
| 4 | Our Georgia guests used the small flat-bottomed craft to go bonefishing one afternoon , and Thessy , well trained by his father , led them unerringly to a sea-flat by a mangrove swamp where , in just a few heart-racing moments , they landed four of the gleaming and elusive fish . |
| 5 | A friend collected me and whisked me away to a quieter part of the island . |
| 6 | Of course , Benjamin hustled me away to a corner by ourselves and that was n't hard , everyone now distanced themselves from us . |
| 7 | What had happened was that , having marched in straight lines over open flat ground for a while , their paths had taken them close to a pebble . |
| 8 | Evening : invited me home to a buffet meal with a group of friends and colleagues , including , ( Linguistics CIEFL ) , ( Linguistics CIEFL ) , ( Correspondence Course , CIEFL ) , ( Materials Production , CIEFL ) . |
| 9 | ‘ If you come up one by one , without weapons , I 'll take you home to a fair trial in England . |
| 10 | Dogs can take you directly to a few kilos of heroin welded into the chassis , but they 're not too good at sniffing out a Renoir . |
| 11 | If we sign an act without a record contract , we develop their music and their image so we can present them favourably to a record company . ’ |
| 12 | Roquelaure was recognised instantly by the head waiter who took them straight to a reserved corner table . |
| 13 | In practice , it is useful to expose test samples to daylight ( not direct sunlight ) and also to expose them continuously to a battery of fluorescent tubes . |
| 14 | He wondered if they had come to take him away to a Home for ungrateful and unwanted children . |
| 15 | Mercer drew him away to a comer , and slowly , haltingly , the general good humour resurfaced . |
| 16 | Then , not even glancing at the room beyond , or at a woman who had come out on to the stairs , she led him away to a small room of perfect luxury at the back of the house , which was clearly her own . |
| 17 | It would take him away to a nice , warm mental hospital , where nice men would inject large quantities of Largactil up his bum . |
| 18 | ‘ You could send her away to a school . ’ |
| 19 | When the revolt collapsed and Judith was released , Charles rode out with his uncle Drogo bishop of Metz to escort her home to a ceremonial reception at Aachen in February 831 . |
| 20 | A win for Akinwande , who beat the much-hyped Herbie Hide for the 1989 ABA title , will elevate him close to a world top-10 rating , if not pushing him into the elite of one of the four organisations . |
| 21 | Starkisser had to have cost him close to a hundred thousand US dollars , and the Lucaya penthouse apartment , with its private docks and its view towards Silver Point Beach , probably cost ten times as much . |
| 22 | ROCK star Dave Stewart was yesterday declared a civic hero in the city he quit as a teenager after years of school bullying pushed him close to a nervous breakdown . |
| 23 | Although this was an extremely delicate operation for Nizan to perform , given that in 1934 he had carried out the rather complex act of ideological rehabilitation designed to demonstrate that Gide 's intellectual itinerary was such as to lead him inevitably to a commitment to communism , he none the less succeeded in combining professional respect for Gide 's qualities as a writer with penetrating criticism of what he considered to be Gide 's superficial analysis and hasty dismissal of the Soviet state . |
| 24 | He waved her courteously to a chair . |
| 25 | Jeremy 's voice summons her uncomfortably to a mesh of past and present . |
| 26 | The rapist grabbed her from behind and dragged her across to a car park nearby . |
| 27 | To those who did not respond to his sad soliloquies on the terrible social stigma which must naturally fall upon the parents who forbade their own child the opportunity of gainful employment and condemned him instead to a living purgatory of dole-queue misery , there was always the wall of shame , upon which their names must be forever writ in letters big , for destroying the glorious reputation of the school . |
| 28 | She led him upstairs to a homely-looking sitting-room , and opened the drinks cupboard . |
| 29 | If you ca n't lock ladders away inside , chain and padlock them horizontally to a fixed point . |
| 30 | He replied that he had given it verbally to a police sergeant , but that he must have forgotten about it . |