Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | MacDonald read it to the members of the Cabinet ( imposing further conditions before a loan would be given ) . |
| 2 | The web tangled and clung mawkishly around her reasoning as Fernando lowered her to the bed . |
| 3 | Sotheby 's , determined to protect Irises ’ ‘ most expensive ’ tag , repossessed it , and in March sold it to the Getty museum , probably for $40 to $45 million . |
| 4 | Biff lowered him to the ground , and untied the rope . |
| 5 | Glenn Hoddle got them to the Premier league … maybe Keith Scott can keep them there ! |
| 6 | Hari led him to the bench and watched as Lewis tied on his apron . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A contemporary writer from Lika compared it to the Mongol invasions and the depredations of the Goths and Attila the Hun . |
| 9 | One moment of astonishing creativity in the dying seconds on Saturday transported him to the centre of Arsenal 's universe . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Barney took us to the airport , and when we arrived next day in Hong Kong , it was warm and sunny . |
| 12 | Fardine took us to the edge of his terrace , where his own pigeons were kept in a large coop . |
| 13 | When war was declared and Braque and Derain returned to join their regiments in Paris , Picasso escorted them to the station in Avignon . |
| 14 | By the late 1980s the CPSU itself accepted , as Gorbachev put it to the 27th Party Congress , that no single party could have a ‘ monopoly of truth ’ and that the movement as a whole would not normally be unanimous on all the issues it confronted . |
| 15 | I said ‘ Hullo ’ to everyone I knew , and Violet Sangston introduced me to the people I did n't know . |
| 16 | David introduced her to the warden , then they made their way to the residents ' common-room where Rachel was given a rapturous welcome by her new friends , in particular by a young Down 's syndrome woman called Belinda whose delight at seeing her again was only too apparent . |
| 17 | On arrival at the farm Edward introduced her to the herdsman then went on to his house , promising to come back shortly . |
| 18 | As all areas were initially classified as class I and II , the EPA left it to the states to redesignate some class II areas as class III , or even to upgrade such areas to class I ( Stern , 1977 ) . |
| 19 | When they drew apart at last Travis carried her to the nearest armchair , cradling her across his lap . |
| 20 | Woolley chased him to the nearest bomb-crater . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was already half full with stagnant rain water , so Mildred filled it to the brim , then carried it back to the yard window-sill , collecting her broomstick on the way . |
| 23 | But my heart was not in insurance , and when Fred Workman recalled me to the editorial offices I rushed back to my old love . |
| 24 | My turn came and Lobsang coaxed me to the edge . |
| 25 | Rescuing a piece of the frill from the dress , Ellie cut it to the shape she wanted , attached it with pins to the back of the headband , laid it down , picked up Terry 's brush , backcombed the other girl 's hair so that it stood further out from her head , giving a similarity of the style she thought she should have , carefully arranged the head-dress , and turned Terry back to the mirror . |
| 26 | ‘ At the Brisbane Hotel dinner , Jimmy Conn treated them to the full Address to the Haggis , splendidly translated by interpreter Pru Williams . ’ |
| 27 | David Frost put it to the right hon. and learned Gentleman no less than three times that it would be an unfair burden on many people who are not rich if he were to carry out immediately his proposed taxation arrangements to pay for Beckett 's law — the abolition of the upper earnings limit for national insurance contributions and the 50 per cent . |
| 28 | Nigel accompanied him to the cottage . |
| 29 | The vicar of St Giles introduced him to the little religious group called the Oratory of the Good Shepherd , and one of those priests , Gordon Day , became a friend of Ramsey and adviser in religion . |
| 30 | Felix threw me to the ground and hit me again and again with his heavy stick . |