Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Marguerite 's tight shoulders relaxed and , as he slowed the car and finally brought it to a halt before the house , Alain made a sound of deep satisfaction . |
| 2 | The 1865 Salon did exhibit Manet 's Olympia but quickly moved it to a place that made viewing almost impossible for the public . |
| 3 | They promptly referred her to a housing association which has found her a three-bedroomed house . |
| 4 | The other five Israelis escaped , but one , Yair Yitzhaki , was again abducted by another JKLF group which eventually released him to a group of journalists on July 3 . |
| 5 | An American controller on duty when we requested permission to land later took us to a hotel at 10 pm . |
| 6 | A few days before his death Sviridenko 's investigation supposedly led him to a very senior government official involved in purchasing art works . |
| 7 | Meredith 's mouth was open beneath her mask as Lucenzo imperiously led her to a favoured seat , followed by a posse of attentive waiters . |
| 8 | Overcome with emotion , he led her out to meet some of the other prisoners in Algox' gilded cage : first , he mistily introduced her to a tall , thin nervy man with black brows knitted in a permanent frown . |
| 9 | He calmed the animal , quickly inspected it , then led it to a second , checked this animal too for wounds and led it to Wynne-Jones . |
| 10 | She describes how a porpoise appeared and guided her so that she was being carried with the tide , and then helped her to a section of shallow water . |
| 11 | The combative veteran gave his side the lead on the hour , and then helped them to a flattering 3-0 win . |
| 12 | Dzo bells lulled us to sleep and then woke us to a clear and sunny morning . |
| 13 | He then drove her to a house in the near by village of Olney where she was raped again . |
| 14 | His period there exposed him to a world of living theories , of using his preferred medium as a vehicle of ideas . |
| 15 | In pursuit of the action Campbell had caught about 80 of the creatures on a piece of sticky tape and then forwarded them to a zoologist . |
| 16 | For what power was it that gave eagles power to fly across the sky , and then confined them to a cage ? |
| 17 | The Germans climbed down to him , packed snow into the head wound , then dragged him to a ledge . |
| 18 | That God created the world and then left it to a forsaken humanity , trying to address Him in an echoless void — this idea is n't new . |
| 19 | Apparently Ray still could n't bring himself to sell it , and instead donated it to a pond built by the Norwich section of the BKKS for a local Cheshire Home . |
| 20 | Mr. Ashworth helpfully referred us to a substantial number of United States decisions . |
| 21 | ‘ A thing happened to myself Stevie , last autumn , coming on winter and I never told it to a living soul . |
| 22 | Initially created in 1982 , Logan has continued to adapt this work , and recently revised it to a new height of over ten metres . |