Example sentences of "[vb past] i to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He caught me around the waist and flung me to the floor . |
| 2 | Pahdra Singh mounted the pavement in his Bentley this morning and pinned me to the window of the Wimpy Bar . |
| 3 | The house we sat in was still in chaos , so she led me to the sunny kitchen , where we talked and drank coffee , surrounded by boxes and plants and the smell of paint . |
| 4 | Mrs Aboud led me to the balcony from where it was evident that many of the surrounding buildings — like those elsewhere in the Arab quarter — had been devastated , their roofs smashed in and their windows punched out of their frames . |
| 5 | My searches even led me to the absurdity of being directed to the deep freeze in one newsagent when I asked for Spare Rib . |
| 6 | I checked my hexagram against the index , which led me to the pages headed Ta Kuo : Preponderance of the Great . |
| 7 | And her white Reeboks screeched at the marble as she turned and led me to the waiting forms . |
| 8 | The second day continued where the first day left off : four catches by Hick to equal the record for a Test against Pakistan originally set by the little-remembered spinner Jim McConnon of Glamorgan in 1954 , and then my researches led me to the remarkable fact that John Birch , who played for Notts from 1973 to 1988 , was known as ‘ Bonk ’ . |
| 9 | She frowned for a moment , then picked up my hand and led me to the window . |
| 10 | Although this is an isolated example it is typical of the problems I encountered and which led me to the conclusion that the product simply is n't ready for release into the market in its current form . |
| 11 | But he raised his left hand again , this time to silence me ; took my arm and led me to the edge of the colonnade . |
| 12 | The sad consequence on the children 's lives of the circumstances of their birth led me to the conclusion that pregnancy in elderly women might not be appropriate and the whole programme was stopped . |
| 13 | And I 'm really proud that the men in the tank recommended me to the jailers to be the trusty . |
| 14 | The regular vet — a friend of mine — has gone to live in Australia and he recommended me to the zoo as his replacement . |
| 15 | Richard played me their record and invited me to the end of recording party . |
| 16 | ‘ When Peter invited me to the club I knew that Dusty was retiring and that there would be a place up for grabs . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Mr Patrick Corbally Stourton , who went out to work in Australia several years ago , and is now managing director of Originals Outback Limited , invited me to the opening of the first comprehensive exhibition of Aboriginal art from the Central Western Desert of Australia to be seen in Europe . |
| 19 | When Andy invited me to the launch of the The Gadget Shop I naively assumed it would be in the shop itself , in Covent Garden . |
| 20 | I payed with my Vista card and although she was a hockey player , when she invited me to the opera I igried to go . |
| 21 | Sure enough , a high-pitched peeping drew me to the stable , and there on the floor was the hen with one minute black puff-ball of a chick . |
| 22 | It was Mr Hurd 's first paragraph that drew me to the rest of the review . |
| 23 | No , what drew me to the Hall was personal . |
| 24 | He referred me to the first of several psychiatrists I was to visit for a year . |
| 25 | It was the violent jolting of our wheels on the sleepers that finally woke me to the realisation that Ward had switched from the road to the railway line itself and was bumping his way along the track towards the gaping mouth of a tunnel . |
| 26 | They suffered me to the extent that I did my column for 530 weeks in a row but over the years there was more and more of a crackdown on giving me facilities in the office . |
| 27 | Uncle Joe subjected me to the same torture and humiliation every time we were alone together — although , thankfully , he never actually went as far as raping me . |
| 28 | Irena drove me to the station , past the monastery that is now a military hospital , along the main road north where tanks rumble across at night . |
| 29 | They drove me to the police station . |
| 30 | 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 . |