Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] the [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually they brought him to admit that he had either collected the girl from or returned the girl to the spot on several occasions over the last two months . |
| 2 | Or right back to the day she married Steve , or took the boat to England ? |
| 3 | rejected the allegation that the wife 's agreement to the opening of the account had been procured by undue influence on the part of her husband , but dealt with ‘ the suggestion that the bank are disentitled to enforce the mandate because they sent or gave the document to Mr. Shephard and did not themselves obtain the defendant 's signature ’ by holding [ 1988 ] 3 All E.R. |
| 4 | It is important to check whether the dead person left any instructions with the Will about the funeral , or wished the body to be given for medical research ( see Section 7 ) , or organs to be donated for transplantation ( see Section 8 ) . |
| 5 | He had not seen the correspondence about the lines through Denbigh , as his men no longer worked over , nor signed the road to Denbigh . |
| 6 | With a wild yell of triumph the Annamese dropped to his knees and plunged the knife to the hilt in the dying Corsican 's chest . |
| 7 | He is WA 's highest runscorer , and led the State to successive Sheffield Shield titles in 1986–87 , ‘ 87–88 and ‘ 88–89 . |
| 8 | Pushing a renegade curl from his forehead , he divested the boot of our luggage and led the way to reception , where we said goodbye to Sandy , the lady driver . |
| 9 | ‘ Let's go , ’ he said and led the way to the car . |
| 10 | He scrambled out of the car and led the way to the new dunes overlooking the sea . |
| 11 | " Why not ? " he repeated and led the way to the French windows . |
| 12 | He had risen very early , from a bed probably sleepless , and led the way to this spot among the thickest of the woodland without a word beyond the whispered morning greeting , and obedient acknowledgement of any remarks directed at him . |
| 13 | Fortunately a gong sounded at that moment and Bertha sprang up with surprising alacrity and led the way to the dining room , where Randolph was already at the sideboard carving the meat . |
| 14 | ‘ Willingly , ’ Rose agreed , and led the way to a small antechamber that led off the main saloon . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said quickly , and led the way to the house without hesitation . |
| 16 | She had been named regional marketing services manager and expected the job to be confirmed . |
| 17 | The young child familiar with the nursery rhyme : The Man in the Moon Came down too soon And asked the way to Norwich sees a jovial face . |
| 18 | We met a small boy , and asked the way to one of the springs . |
| 19 | Such cheating may take the form of coaching or practice , but it may also take the subtle form of the chemistry teacher who asked the GCE student , ‘ are you sure that is what you want ? ’ when she was asking for some particular potion to complete an experiment in a practical examination , or the American teacher on the same 1987 visit who pointed to a particular answer in a workbook and asked the student to ‘ check that out ’ . |
| 20 | I had a spell off instruction and became the assistant to the chief ground instructor and , in that capacity , I also was instructed to carry out preliminary inspections of crashes that happened at Kinloss during that period , and a most unpleasant task this was . |
| 21 | In the case of the Society for Biophysical Medicine , agency staff conducted the transcribing task themselves , and posted the information to the research project . |
| 22 | The path turned inland and met the road to Sandweg which cut through arable land , punctuated by low , brooding barns . |
| 23 | Allen placed the steel bow between the stone uprights of the parapet , dropped the hook over it and lowered the rope to the ground . |
| 24 | Bissett went on down the corridor and unlocked the door to his room . |
| 25 | While serving as ambassador at the court of St James Sancy 's brother sold the stone to James I. When James II fled to France he took refuge at St Germain and sold the stone to Louis XIV . |
| 26 | The FT was moving premises and sold the building to a Japanese Corporation for £143 million — the highest price ever paid for a City site . |
| 27 | Both are built in Japan , though the Lynx was designed in California by Epyx , a software house which ran out of development funds and sold the product to Atari . |
| 28 | My granny would tell how her mother , Jane Blackley , née Sharp , would bring a basket of potatoes , eggs and ham , or how my grandfather and his brother-in-law operated an illicit mine and sold the coal to local farmers on the sly , for there were young children to be fed . |
| 29 | Later the family ran into financial difficulties and sold the property to Sir William Scott of Harden , whose direct descendant was the young Walter Scott . |
| 30 | They then formed a limited company of which they became the sole directors and shareholders and sold the business to the company . |