Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eye measured these impressive heights coolly , relating them always to sea level rather than to their own grandeur , and correcting Boswell 's exultation over ‘ another mountain I called immense : Johnson : ‘ No ; it is no more than a considerable protuberance . ’ ’ |
| 2 | Though it looks painfully obvious described so baldly , this scheme is wonderfully successful in dramatising the way in which life gradually closes in on Peter , driving him inexorably to madness and suicide . |
| 3 | To Tolkien , with his theory of dragonish ‘ bewilderment ’ , it meant more likely ‘ stayed with its possessor ’ , driving him insidiously to greed and cunning . |
| 4 | While Maureen , who raised the alarm , began to detach herself from the child she had taken home , returning it briefly to hospital , Marie held the infant she called Gemma tightly to her . |
| 5 | ‘ Your absence meant that I had her all to myself at breakfast — with the additional pleasure of escorting her personally to school . ’ |
| 6 | Soldiers fired on Aristide 's home in the poor suburb of Plains de Cul-de-Sac , where he continued to live , killing his security chief before leading him away to army headquarters . |
| 7 | She said gently , ‘ Oh , yes , I 'm sending you home to Casa Madrid . ’ |
| 8 | I remember you taking me there to lunch when I was small and I threw up in the lift . ’ |
| 9 | Bring them home and tell them that you 're taking them home to air . |
| 10 | Instead of taking him straight to hospital , the gatekeeper has him brought up here . |
| 11 | As one group member said : ‘ What I 'd like to see happening is this room set up with the computer and using it regularly to type up the notes from our meetings . ’ |
| 12 | According to the study , Brits generally are addicted to shopping preferring it even to sex ! |
| 13 | Flash floods in October tore away supporting concrete panels from the base of the Mojkovac dam , bringing it close to collapse . |
| 14 | Flash floods in October 1992 had torn away supporting concrete panels from the base of the dam , bringing it close to collapse and threatening the release of 3.5 million tonnes of water containing harmful levels of heavy metals from nearby mines [ see ED 65/66 ] . |
| 15 | Tonight she 's putting them early to bed , before tuning in to the American election . |
| 16 | ‘ No , but knowing you , if you go over your limit we 'll have to tie you down before carrying you upstairs to bed . ’ |
| 17 | The squash tail is a popular shape on the large all-round funboards , giving easy light wind handling and making it quick to plane . |
| 18 | Since the Duke supported Constantine 's claim he may well have brought Bertrand to Normandy on the theory that it was safer than leaving him behind to foment trouble . |