Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An RAF helicopter spotted their craft drifting about 10 miles off Aberdovey and winched them to safety . |
| 2 | When he entertained them to dinner , they travelled to his apartment at Buckingham Palace , not the other way around . |
| 3 | Their search for a new revolutionary perspective led them to Marxism and over the next decade Plekhanov , Axelrod and their ‘ Emancipation of Labour group ’ established in Switzerland a centre for the dissemination of Marxist ideas among Russian revolutionaries . |
| 4 | The pair had been trapped in an upstairs ' room until firefighters smashed their way in through a window and led them to safety down a ladder . |
| 5 | Instead their carelessness led them to Jail . |
| 6 | It was one of the magnetic forces that drew them overseas , and led them to disappointment quite as often as to wealth . |
| 7 | Accordingly , he asked me to lunch , and we went to the Russell Hotel , which was conveniently near his office . |
| 8 | The following week the US Tour moved to Los Angeles for the LA Open , and Frank asked me to caddie for him there . |
| 9 | He asked me to caddie for him for the rest of the year . |
| 10 | But Jim insisted , insisted that I bought him a pint and asked me to caddie for him the following week at St Anne 's . |
| 11 | I was given anti- depressants , that did n't help and it was n't until four years later when they actually admitted me to hospital and then an ulcer and the depression disappeared once it had been diagnosed . |
| 12 | Enquiries led me to owner Tony Allen and the information that it awaited final paperwork after having had floats fitted . |
| 13 | Graeme sold me to Villa . |
| 14 | As their appointment was n't until the afternoon , Sukey Benedict asked them to lunch beforehand . |
| 15 | It was about er the press and unemployment and it was about the way the effects of unemployment were written about in well broadsheet and popular newspapers , it also involved a bit of a study where I gave people some articles to show which had been typed up in a fairly anonymous format and , and got them to rate them in various ways and that was in , let me see , nineteen eighty three long long time ago |
| 16 | However , to say that events that happened when I was in my late twenties somehow predisposed me to homelessness would be absolute nonsense . |
| 17 | She invited them to tea . |
| 18 | ‘ She very kindly invited me to lunch and she has given me a lot of useful information . ’ |
| 19 | Then Monsieur Coutelan invited me to lunch in a restaurant in some village . |
| 20 | She had sent volunteers out to botanise , and invited me to coffee in the Harris Hotel . |
| 21 | They invited me to punk parties as noisy as tractor factories , where I swigged flat cans of beer , already shaken with a twist of cigarette butt . |
| 22 | I must have kept my end up successfully , though , for just before he left Dennis sought me out and invited me to dinner the following Friday . |
| 23 | About a week later I met Mr Jaggers by chance in the street , and he invited me to dinner that evening . |
| 24 | Then she invited me to dinner . |
| 25 | Immediately Alex thought : so that 's why she invited me to dinner , to try and match me up with her semi-alcoholic brother . |
| 26 | ‘ Anyway , she came to my door and invited me to dinner . ’ |
| 27 | You invited me to dinner and I accepted ; that 's all there is to it . ’ |
| 28 | When the Social Services ' Committee raised concerns about basic definitions for collaborative working and about the apparent overlap between the care programme approach and care management , the Secretary of State for Health referred them to Community Care in the Next Decade and Beyond — Policy Guidance . |
| 29 | In support of this submission he referred me to Heaven v. Pender ( 1883 ) 11 Q.B.D. 503 and Le Lievre v. Gould [ 1893 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 30 | He referred me to President of India v. La Pintada Compania Navigacion S.A. [ 1985 ] A.C. 104 where , in declining to extend the common law so as to enable a plaintiff to recover interest by way of general damages , the House of Lords were influenced by the fact that the legislature had twice intervened to deal with entitlement to interest . |