Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] to [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to strap them to my bicycle , which is why they look a bit battered . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ No need to see me to my room , Alec , ’ she said , reaching for the candlestick . |
| 3 | ‘ In a matter such as this , the reasoning which led them to their opinion is a vital piece of information which should not be withheld from the House of Commons . |
| 4 | ‘ I led them to your car . |
| 5 | ‘ He led them to my place . |
| 6 | He asked me to his room . |
| 7 | Sarah had become aware of her looks , which were improving daily , and she began using them to her advantage . |
| 8 | He led me to his booth and typed a few keys on the control panel . |
| 9 | He led me to his house and in a few minutes I had diagnosed the trouble — a flat battery . |
| 10 | The concretion of the Christian religion drives them to its edge ; indeed makes them wonder whether there is a place for them within it . |
| 11 | I hope I can get plain sewing work enough where I need not spoil my fingers , but if I ca n't , I hope to mae my hands as red as blood pudding and as hard as a beechen trencher to accommodate them to my condition . |
| 12 | Make them to whatever width you care to but it is advisable to divide the desired throw-over width into suitable panels , rather than to find it too narrow and have to add little strips to either side . |
| 13 | And that annoyed me enough to drive me to my cabin , to clean myself up and choose fresh clothing . |
| 14 | ‘ On another occasion a taxi driver wanted $5 to drive me to my hotel … which we could both see quite clearly a few hundred yards away ! ’ |
| 15 | I commend them to your care . |
| 16 | Anthony Eden , the Foreign Secretary , asked them to what extent the full internationalization of civil aviation was possible . |
| 17 | Nilsen picked up young men in London before bringing them to his home . |
| 18 | Designer Tricia Guild took her ideas for inside the house and applied them to her garden . |
| 19 | If the spiritual realisations become bogged in the mud of the stagnant pond , materials stagger about pulling this way and that on the lead that joins them to their master . |
| 20 | It 's better when you send me to my room when I 'm naughty . |
| 21 | We get C V's printed up cos I send them to my dad . |
| 22 | Send them to your boss 's secretary , stating in writing that you are starting on the preparation of the report , as instructed , and are basing it on the enclosed terms of reference . |
| 23 | He used to write his poems on silk and send them to his wife far down the river . |
| 24 | Neil concluded that perhaps there was a problem with duty and , as customs did n't contradict this , Neil invited them to his work to sort things out . |
| 25 | Salah also invited them to his house , to his guestroom , to eat meat at id al-kabir and other feasts . |
| 26 | Smiling , the Archimandrite invited them to his cell , which proved to be one of the tiny dwellings built hard against the outer wall of the church . |
| 27 | ‘ Wo n't you introduce me to your friend ? ’ |
| 28 | But even people who are concerned about me say things which seem to be complimentary ; a teacher remarks that I have become ‘ a sylph ’ lately , Mum defends me to my grandma as ‘ naturally slender ’ , and Dad makes jokes about my skinny legs — reassuring jokes , the sort he used to make when I was little , before I became ‘ a young woman ’ and embarrassing to him . |
| 29 | But one day a girl at school invited me to her home , and we began to see more of each other , became friends . |
| 30 | On one occasion she even invited me to her home in Chelsea , but I did n't accept as I knew if I did I would only have to ask her back to my place in Whitechapel . |