Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shaft of the arrow protruding from my back occasionally knocked against something , bringing me to a gasping halt . |
| 2 | By that time , the Scottish team had gone through three practice sessions , while the Aussies from Queensland expect their post-season training to see them to a successful defence of the tournament , which starts today . |
| 3 | Philpott led them to a pale-blue door at the end of the passage . |
| 4 | At noon , the exhausted Pack gathered together and Brown Owl led them to a shady area . |
| 5 | Anderson captained Ireland on their short tour of France , led them to an unexpected victory over a French XV and keeps the job now but age and waning powers put a question-mark over his selection for the team at all . |
| 6 | ‘ Let's go and have a drink , then you can treat me to a celebratory dinner ! ’ |
| 7 | Pain , boredom and badgering of some very kind nurses bring me to a steam-age typewriter in the hospital 's occupational therapy department . |
| 8 | I skulked down one side of the garden and went through the arch which led me to a walled garden in the middle of which there was a fountain playing . |
| 9 | He led me to a long , low building . |
| 10 | I gave my orders and they led me to a private room and brought me some writing paper and a pen . |
| 11 | Where was Um Al-Farajh , I asked him , and he led me to a large square of fir trees and pointed to the earth . |
| 12 | He led me to a large , upright scallop of rock . |
| 13 | Where in his character-drawing O'Brian touches the reader 's imagination by the unexpected , Forester satisfied his readers by helping them to a complete acquaintance with his officers and men . |
| 14 | Such incidents have now been reported sufficiently often in langurs and in lions , for example , to invalidate an early explanation attributing them to a high population density . |
| 15 | Typically then they operate to defeat the title of the unpaid seller ( let us call him C ) who has entrusted his goods to a buyer who , without paying C , has in turn sold them to an innocent purchaser . |
| 16 | You can do more than play games : you can add them , multiply them , and develop them to a remarkable depth . |
| 17 | Mr. Wall argued that the exercise of the discretion which arises as a result of the finding of ‘ acquiescence ’ made by the Court of Appeal , is limited to considering the nature and quality of the acquiescence itself and would not entitle the court to take into account ‘ welfare ’ considerations relating specifically to the children unless the court were able to find that there had been established a grave risk that the return of the children would expose them to an intolerable situation under article 13 ( b ) . |
| 18 | The central figure points me to a single chair , placed opposite . |
| 19 | Would you trust him/her to a permissive relationship with contemporary television ? |
| 20 | On the day before de Macon sailed on his second voyage , the Ralembergs invited me to a formal supper . |
| 21 | It is one thing to assert that a consequence of sustained expansion of demand will be a direct increase in the expected rate of inflation by a process which efficiently circumvents the gradual error learning mechanism posited by adaptive expectations : individuals will have an incentive to search for the origins of their expectational errors and take the steps appropriate to keeping them to an absolute , unavoidable minimum . |
| 22 | It was a crisp Saturday morning in February , and the young man had picked her up from her flat and was driving them to a motor-racing track in the heart of Surrey . |
| 23 | Dutifully , I changed them to a complete muesli-type food which is described on the bag as ‘ Hi Protein Fitness Food ’ . |
| 24 | The combative veteran gave his side the lead on the hour , and then helped them to a flattering 3-0 win . |
| 25 | He helped them to a waiting car and drove to nearby St Thomas 's Hospital . |
| 26 | The most difficult aspect of a merger is trying to put a team together of people who come from different business cultures and trying to adjust them to a different end . |
| 27 | And this is gon na introduce you to a new word called psychographic and psychographic , you think you 've got , you can break it in two you 've got the psychological aspects and the graphic or mapping , the mapping of the psychology . |
| 28 | ‘ Send him to a regional office ? ’ |
| 29 | And a court in Nottingham hears how a taxi driver sexually assaulted a female passenger after driving her to a secluded spot in Park . |
| 30 | Nottingham Crown Court 's been told that a taxi driver sexually assaulted a woman passenger after ignoring her instructions and driving her to a secluded area in Clumber Park . |