Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was vaguely conscious of passing through occasional stations but she did n't wake up until a soft shaking of her shoulder gently brought her to life . |
| 2 | Prosperity eventually drove him to expenditure , acquiring servants and carriages , and building Highfield House , with its billiard-room , library , ornamental gardens , and lodge . |
| 3 | She finally made it to university , after which to my regret I lost touch with her . |
| 4 | However , to say that events that happened when I was in my late twenties somehow predisposed me to homelessness would be absolute nonsense . |
| 5 | Crowds of people would line the banks through the little villages , never tiring at the sight of their own local natural phenomenon , until the great waves finally smashed themselves to extinction against the weirs of Gloucester City . |
| 6 | However , the company 's far greater resources of baksheesh soon restored them to liberty . |
| 7 | After the rather disappointing end to his adventures in Italy , Wolfgang once more devoted himself to composition — more symphonies , divertimentos for wind instruments , Masses , and a double violin concerto . |
| 8 | ‘ For a long time , ’ he says , ‘ the king acted on the advice of William of Montague , who always encouraged him to excellence , honour , and love of arms : and so they led their young lives in pleasant fashion , until there came a more serious time with more serious matters . ’ |
| 9 | This four-weekly experience always sent him to bed with a migraine for the rest of the day . |
| 10 | Sarge — his real name was Paul Sargeant — was an Australian who had modelled himself on John Belushi and disapproved of good language ( he once took me to task for using the word ‘ carouse ’ ) . |
| 11 | Penda had taken Eadfrith , son of Eadwine , into Mercia with him after the battle of Hatfield , possibly with the intention of restoring him one day in Deira as a dependent ruler , but perhaps ill-advisedly put him to death during the reign of Oswald ( HE 11 , 20 ) — though conceivably prevailed upon to do so by Oswald . |
| 12 | Their anomalous position illustrates the danger of reading back ( even into the 1950s , let alone the 1930s ) the more precisely defined contemporary categories , and eventually exposed them to abolition . |
| 13 | They went to Joseph Hyde — probably because he was the one connection they had between the Irish organization and me , and then they nearly beat him to death just so Lee could make his report to you . |
| 14 | She blushed furiously , and inwardly cursed him to hell and back . |
| 15 | Its values now those of a specialist activity , design severs the communicative link which formerly bound it to society . |
| 16 | His father coached him in Dutch , and also introduced him to theosophy . |
| 17 | As a screen Englishman , he felt it his duty to volunteer for the Royal Navy when war broke out and was amused to find that his newly-developed persona automatically promoted him to officer class . |
| 18 | Do you know , not a single rotten member of my miserable household appeared to be in the least little bit aware of the joyful nature of the dawn which I gaily urged them to acclaim . |
| 19 | There were many complaints that cattle infested roadsides , and their search for food often took them to rice fields and gardens . |
| 20 | I even helped you to bed and did not demand to stay with you . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ She very kindly invited me to lunch and she has given me a lot of useful information . ’ |
| 22 | Rosheen immediately waved him to silence . |
| 23 | Mr Martin immediately took him to task , reminding him that , in an earlier statement to the police , he had informed them that he had not left the cinema until six . |
| 24 | He was totally obsessed with that dreadful little boy Grégoire — he even brought him to tea here , you know , and the child had no manners at all , he broke one of the Sèvres cups — Edouard said he was nervous … |
| 25 | I even took it to school with me . |
| 26 | The young Gedge steadfastly applied himself to school work throughout the constant shifts . |
| 27 | Gedge had still not fully applied himself to music and was quite happy to play board games with Solowka rather than the laborious task of writing songs . |
| 28 | Johnson and Thornley devised a complex crop growth model incorporating leaf area expansion and senescence , and they then applied it to grass growth . |
| 29 | Roy Strait said he heard at least two men as they administered sleeping pills to the film star — then smothered her to death . |
| 30 | Scribe across the panel then saw it to size and nail in the margin . |