Example sentences of "[pron] to [art] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 As a man , he lends himself to a story as haunting as any in cricket .
2 Ardamal manoeuvred himself to a position below and slightly behind the woman , hidden by her legs .
3 When he was engaged in writing The Cocktail Party , he was asked how long he would devote himself to the theatre rather than to poetry ; he replied , " Until I can convince people that I know how to write a popular play " .
4 — Could he have survived the fall and dragged himself to the position where he was found ? — This seemed the most likely explanation .
5 When God appeared to Abraham in the guise of three strangers in need of hospitality , Abraham greeted them by bowing himself to the ground once ( 18.2 ) .
6 Mr Souness , who will be 39 in May , drove himself to the hospital just after midday in his £73,000 Mercedes 500 SL coupe , accompanied by his girlfriend , Karen Levy , 32 , a former actress and television show hostess .
7 ‘ All right then , I 'll go to find Maud by myself , but I 'll come back for you as soon as I 'm changed back and I 'll get you to a magician somehow .
8 and you work on the computers what you 're gon na be and then it 'll be silly if they brought you to a nursery afterwards if you wanted to be
9 Er and that , and that cou would get you get you to a doctor then .
10 so they just call it E T , she said they can actually send you to a place where you can get you , your experience and er because they 've sent you , you get an extra certain amount , ten pound a week , cos you 're going through the job centre
11 It will be difficult to find the exact one as we have confiscated so many ; , but this soldier who is accompanying you will take you to a warehouse where you will find hundreds of bicycles of all descriptions .
12 I 'll take you to the spot where they took him !
13 and took you to the room up in the tower
14 Every event that you choose for your life , no matter how destructive , chaotic or miserable it may seem , has been allowed to manifest because your Wholeness has an innate knowledge of those things you need to get you to the place where you will choose to sink deeply within , into the stillness of who you are .
15 Erm can I also introduce you to the fact there erm Maureen I will explain briefly about er Maureen 's presence here .
16 If your studies have not taken you to the point where you can answer all the questions , answer those that you can and some of them twice .
17 we 'll go straight up to Taughmonagh go down the town early in the morning and I 'll take you to the shop where they maybe get you a rugby jumper
18 Did you start doing a passenger service when you got the mail contract or did you to the mail just on its own first or did you
19 ‘ I am taking you to the dressing-room where the ladies are gathered , they would be your best customers , I do n't doubt . ’
20 Main thing , get dad to take you to the library tomorrow cos your book 's past its date .
21 The guiding principle of the Okapi research is that the system must adapt itself to the user rather than the converse .
22 He would have done better to have given everything to the boy outright , but it is my belief he did not want Benedict to lose touch with his godmother . ’
23 He turned and shouted something to the mercer below .
24 You did something to the catch before did n't you ?
25 That 's the main one to the heart then ?
26 The length of your cycle is the number of days from day one to the day before your next period .
27 D Do you know do you know that Norfolk where the headquarters are where the incident room is , Norfolk have not had one reported incident to that forecourt watch , cos I spoke to the control staff , not had one to the force where it 's actually been centred .
28 ‘ It 's a ‘ 59 Stratocaster , although I 've got a different neck on it now , because I 'd worn the original one to the point where every time I re-fretted it , I had to fill in the holes !
29 Which took one to the garden where
30 Kate was a woman in every sense of the word , and she was a woman who would not give herself to a man lightly .
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