Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] to [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must go and break it to dear Dimity , and then we must clear up things here , and set off for Thrush Green without delay . ’ |
| 2 | Though Coronation Street , a downmarket soap , has lots of viewers , Granada , the firm that makes it , has to sell it to other ITV companies for a mere £100,000 per episode . |
| 3 | Leave Quebec and continue to Montreal where a brief city tour introduces you to Old Montreal and the French Quarter . |
| 4 | I therefore suggest that all possible steps are taken to dispose soonest of all surrendered personnel in this area whether German , Austrian or Russian by moving them to northern Italy or their homes whichever may be the policy . |
| 5 | He was therefore asking as a matter of urgency that " all possible steps " should be taken " to dispose soonest of all surrendered personnel in this area whether German , Austrian or Russian " by " moving them to northern Italy or their homes whichever may be the policy " . |
| 6 | I took a basket of eggs into church last Sunday because I was so afraid I should forget to give them to old Mrs Baldwin on my way home . |
| 7 | By way of a contrast to the more usual content found between these covers , let me take you to Georgian England at the beginning of the Nineteenth Century . |
| 8 | Well Margaret guided us to ruddy Conway in er , anyway , we got there and we had a bit of a bar snack did n't we ? |
| 9 | Nigerian President Ibrahim Babangida heaped praise on de Klerk , comparing him to other South African anti-apartheid leaders including Nelson Mandela , Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Steve Biko , the leader of the Black Consciousness Movement who died in police custody in 1977 [ see p. 28663 ] . |
| 10 | At sixteen he ran away from Harrow , and set up as a film director , work which took him to central Europe and east Africa , but proved financially unrewarding . |
| 11 | Blair 's job took him to troutless Humberside , but after two years , good fortune posted him back to Aberdeenshire . |
| 12 | But Christine , 37 , insisted on going home for a snack before an ambulance took her to Royal Hallamshire hospital . |
| 13 | A week after the operation that took us to Southern Ireland , I was told to take Venturous up the east coast to Hull and from there , after a crew change , we were to carry out extended patrols northwards which would eventually involve us in a complete circumnavigation of the British Isles . |
| 14 | After lunch we took one of the trains hauled by 1618 which took us to Horsted Keynes and up the new extension to New Coombe Bridge . |
| 15 | His first plan of revenge fails but he follows them to ancient Egypt , where they are joined by the Daleks and Mavic Chen , who know their Core was a fake . |
| 16 | ‘ Leave it to old Hawkshaw Maxted . |
| 17 | All you have to do is complete the Application Form , Declaration and Direct Debiting Instruction and return them to National Westminster Insurance Services Ltd. in the reply-paid-envelope provided . |
| 18 | I 'll have orders to bring you to old Ralf , they 'll believe that . |