Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] me to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I said ‘ Hullo ’ to everyone I knew , and Violet Sangston introduced me to the people I did n't know . |
| 7 | Irena drove me to the station , past the monastery that is now a military hospital , along the main road north where tanks rumble across at night . |
| 8 | Recently , the Queen invited me to the Windsor Horse show along with my little friend Mohammed Al Fayed , who has a shop in Knightsbridge , the name of which escapes me . |
| 9 | But my heart was not in insurance , and when Fred Workman recalled me to the editorial offices I rushed back to my old love . |
| 10 | My turn came and Lobsang coaxed me to the edge . |
| 11 | So the sent me to the er eye infirmary and of course the eye infirmary sent me to the blind school . |
| 12 | I was very glad that my acquaintances escorted me to the Metro , with instructions to change at Dentfert-Rochereau for the Cité Universitaire , where I had managed to book a room in the Pavillon Franco-Britannique . |
| 13 | As before , a guard accompanied me to the barracks ; but this time , on the way back , we met two officers : it was exactly what I had hoped for . |
| 14 | I felt strange , almost disembodied , but my feet carried me to the green door and I pushed it open . |
| 15 | Felix threw me to the ground and hit me again and again with his heavy stick . |
| 16 | Mr Duncan took me to the farm and I met Dan and Stella Parks . |
| 17 | it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it |
| 18 | Paddy introduced me to the leader , a man of forty who earned his living taking convoys across the Sahara . |
| 19 | By nine , the playroom was like something censored out of Gremlins , and I spent most of the morning as a cross between Mummy Bear and Mister Wolf I 'd just been pinned to the floor , it was like an insane asylum in Lilliput , when buti Sikita beckoned me to the phone . |
| 20 | Flupper took me to the shore and I ran to Lollo . |
| 21 | The striking of the half hour alerted me to the incoming tide of darkness . |
| 22 | Ellen had gone to her one-room apartment in town while Thessy was reading his Bible in the main-cabin , so I heated myself some baked beans in Wavebreaker 's microwave , spread them on buttered toast , soaked them in brown sauce , then ate a morose supper on deck until the bugs drove me to the screened sanctuary of the staterooms below . |
| 23 | Uncle Joe subjected me to the same torture and humiliation every time we were alone together — although , thankfully , he never actually went as far as raping me . |
| 24 | I refused to apologise to the Speaker so the Serjeant-at-arms hustled me to the Tower . |
| 25 | My father took me to the Soviet Union when I was very small . |
| 26 | One day in 1916 my driver took me to the town of Loos in Belgium . |
| 27 | The gate porter brought me to the main entrance , and I was shown into a small pleasant office in the front of the administrative block . |
| 28 | The sad consequence on the children 's lives of the circumstances of their birth led me to the conclusion that pregnancy in elderly women might not be appropriate and the whole programme was stopped . |
| 29 | The second day continued where the first day left off : four catches by Hick to equal the record for a Test against Pakistan originally set by the little-remembered spinner Jim McConnon of Glamorgan in 1954 , and then my researches led me to the remarkable fact that John Birch , who played for Notts from 1973 to 1988 , was known as ‘ Bonk ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ When Peter invited me to the club I knew that Dusty was retiring and that there would be a place up for grabs . |