Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Years ago Constance 's mother had kept chickens at the bottom of the garden , and when they went off the lay one of her sons-in-law had strangled them and she had given them away to the neighbours , being unable to eat a bird she had known personally . |
| 2 | It would have been more accurate to say he preferred that version of events to any other , but one lie had committed him now to several distortions . |
| 3 | The strip had carried him right to the end of the branch . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've installed it close to the stores counter . |
| 5 | At some point before 664 Ealhfrith ejected Eata , abbot of Melrose and a pupil of Aidan ( HE III , 16 ) , and his companion , Cuthbert , who would not accept the Catholic Easter and other canonical rites of the Roman Church , from his new foundation at Ripon and committed it instead to Wilfrid ( HE III , 25 : V , 19 ) It was with Ealhfrith that Bishop Agilbert and his priest , Agatho , stayed when they visited the northern Angles prior to arguing in favour of the Dionysian Easter at the council of Whitby ( HE III , 25 ) . |
| 6 | Thus we 've never considered it right to hand out cheques on a mere whim , deciding to sponsor a project , or support a charity because it happened to be the flavour of the month , or because a director had some some particular keen interest in it . |
| 7 | The rearrangement of the kit has pushed me close to the side , and just above my face the fabric cracks and bangs in the wind . |
| 8 | Her joking tone matched his almost to perfection . |
| 9 | An arm , clad in a golden-brown shirt that she had already noticed did marvellous things for his dark hair and amber eyes , transferred her smoothly to the settee , without her spilling a drop of coffee . |
| 10 | Up until yesterday , when the whole thing had taken shape and he had whisked her away to Rocamar , she had simply been his confidante — at least , that was how she had seen herself , and she 'd assumed that was how he saw her too . |
| 11 | We are forced to work fast and badly , but we do n't know whether there is any point to it because it may all be swept away in a month ; on the other hand , nothing at all may happen , in which case we will have done it badly to no purpose . |
| 12 | Moreover , both directly and through the medium of the European Community , my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary has made it plain to the Government of Israel that we deplore the closure decision and that we believe that the universities , colleges and schools should remain open . |
| 13 | Mr McTavish forbore to mention that he had n't made it quite to the same standard as his host but was obviously pleased to be included in the generalization . |
| 14 | Why else had he come up to Tucker 's for fags when he could have got them closer to home ? |
| 15 | I 've brought out a pack of cards , but when you know you 've got them only to while away the hours , they are as exciting as a stack of washing up . |
| 16 | And er they have got it now to a state of what I would imagine almost perfection , and that is that every man , woman and child of the population of those two countries er has got adequate protection and even a woman er who wishes to go out and do shopping in the contaminated er environment has the possibility of , of suiting up and putting a special er cover on the pram of her child and actually pushing this child with a special ventilator out . |
| 17 | It was a strong probability that the Guardian still retained in their archives a numbered copy of the minutes which would have told us immediately to whom that copy had been issued and therefore the name of the informant . |
| 18 | Musk oxen were formerly widespread across the low tundra , but hunting by man has now restricted them mainly to north Greenland and the Canadian far north . |
| 19 | If you had not , and the prince had consigned me again to that man 's house , I should hardly have known what to do , or where to turn . |
| 20 | The lack of material symbols of religion seems to have brought them closer to their God . |
| 21 | Rivalry over girls had brought them almost to blows many times ; but not quite . |
| 22 | My time in submarines had brought me closer to people of a totally different background and I had learnt a great deal from my sailors about their home circumstances before the war . |
| 23 | The revelations of evil that I had experienced had brought me only to confusion and powerlessness . |
| 24 | Frustration had brought her almost to screaming-point . |
| 25 | She told them everything , right up to the fact that two of the notorious Felton brothers had actually brought her home to this very street , only to find there was no home to go to . |
| 26 | He 'd driven her directly to her hotel so she could change her clothes and she 'd elected to wear lightweight cream cotton jeans topped by a matching sleeveless cotton stretch top , taking the precaution of carrying a jacket when Rune warned her that the breeze from the Baltic could be stiff despite the increasing warmth of the day . |
| 27 | When a new Arab-Israeli crisis broke out in May 1967 , the General linked it closely to the war in Asia and predicted to Harold Wilson that the world might well be at war by September . |
| 28 | Travelling to several countries over the last year , has brought it home to me how disastrous are the effects , worldwide , of the virus causing AIDS . |
| 29 | George made a deprecating sound , but she held up her hand to silence him and then continued , ‘ I 'm happy enough at Uncle Nathan 's , although coming back has brought it home to me how much I miss country life . |
| 30 | This page and Outlook , page 27 Ferranti action : Ferranti International is planning legal action against some intermediaries in the ‘ phantom ’ arms contracts which have brought it close to collapse . |