Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the prior hypothesis led us to the finding in the rural high oil worker category ( table II , both for all ages and the 0–4 age group . |
| 2 | MacDonald read it to the members of the Cabinet ( imposing further conditions before a loan would be given ) . |
| 3 | The web tangled and clung mawkishly around her reasoning as Fernando lowered her to the bed . |
| 4 | His talents , his wealth , and the changing times raised him to the court of assistants of the Levant Company from 1644 to 1648 , and in 1645 Parliament appointed him to the Goldsmiths ' Hall committee , through which Royalists redeemed their sequestrated estates by paying compositions . |
| 5 | Sotheby 's , determined to protect Irises ’ ‘ most expensive ’ tag , repossessed it , and in March sold it to the Getty museum , probably for $40 to $45 million . |
| 6 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 7 | She confessed that the bitter jibes and over-exposure led her to the precipice . |
| 8 | The coronet is shown in loving detail as it embodies the moment when this family of merchants made it to the princely ranks . |
| 9 | Biff lowered him to the ground , and untied the rope . |
| 10 | Well no the , the owner , the baker reported them to the police . |
| 11 | Bloom et al. " s study of how to is acquired in infinitival complement constructions led them to the clear conclusion that " the children learned to with the meaning " " direction towards " " and not as a meaningless syntactic marker " ( 1984 : 391 ) . |
| 12 | An ad in the Sevenoaks Chronicle led him to the white 1988 Sierra Sapphire 1.8 LX , advertised at £3750 . |
| 13 | Glenn Hoddle got them to the Premier league … maybe Keith Scott can keep them there ! |
| 14 | Hari led him to the bench and watched as Lewis tied on his apron . |
| 15 | Andrew Chubb , prosecuting , claimed Blissett elbowed Uzzell after the defender beat him to the ball and headed it away . |
| 16 | Her General Practitioner referred her to the surgical Outpatients Clinic where the surgeon examined her and placed her on the waiting list for stripping ( removal ) of varicose veins . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She was still deep in thought when the sound of a car drew her to the window . |
| 20 | A contemporary writer from Lika compared it to the Mongol invasions and the depredations of the Goths and Attila the Hun . |
| 21 | The President drove him to the station . ’ |
| 22 | One moment of astonishing creativity in the dying seconds on Saturday transported him to the centre of Arsenal 's universe . |
| 23 | His weight toppled her to the air-bed that shushed and bounced beneath them . |
| 24 | His Italian blood attracted him to the most powerful Latins in America , and nobody who knew about his Mafioso connections messed with him . |
| 25 | But as he made his getaway , shoppers wrestled him to the ground forcing him to drop the stolen loot — along with £200 he had stashed in a pocket — and he fled empty-handed . |
| 26 | And we would have seen how her eyes followed him to the door . |
| 27 | A boat returned me to the little coral landing-strip ; Friendly Islands Airways took me down to Tongatapu ; and within half a day I was settled in a small hotel in Auckland , waiting for the weekly Cathay Pacific jet home . |
| 28 | After it was all over there was another strange and thrilling event when a car whisked me to the News at Ten studios where I was interviewed by someone in Leeds . |
| 29 | Pahdra Singh called me to the club this morning where he and Reg Pybus and their crony , that stingy git Pugh , the corpse planter , unveiled the new team strip . |
| 30 | Other voluntary hospitals with such funds lost them to the Exchequer , which pooled them in a central fund . |